RAIMONDO da CAPUA, Blessed. - Born in Capua ca. 1330, from a noble family descending from Pier delle Vigne, died in Nuremberg in September 1399. He studied in Bologna, where he entered the Dominican Order, and was a lecturer there and in Rome from 1358 to 1362.
In 1363 he then went to Montepulciano as spiritual director of the Convent of S. Agnese. In 1367 he was made prior of the Convent of the Minerva in Rome, from where he then went to Tuscany for other tasks entrusted to him by the General Chapter, among which first the spiritual direction of the young mantellata Caterina da Siena (1374), whom he guided with the utmost prudence and devotion more as a disciple than as a master. Collaborating with the Saint in the return of the Pope from Avignon to Rome, he accompanied her to the French court of Gregory XI (1376) and then to Rome, where, happy to still be at her side, he was again entrusted with the priorate of the Minerva (1378), during which office Urban VI sent him as his legate to Charles V of France.
Faithful to the Sienese virgin even after her death, he defended Pope Prignano during the Western Schism (1378-1417). After a year as provincial in Lombardy, in 1380 R. da C. was elected general of the Dominican Order, which ten years later he began to reform according to the needs he had learned during his visits to the various convents in Italy, Germany, and Hungary, appointing as his vicars for Germany Corrado of Prussia and for Italy Giovanni Dominici of Venice. He died in Nuremberg during a visit to that convent. Of capital importance for the history of Catherine is the *Legenda* which he composed of her in 1392 and which was first published in Florence in 1477 (Italian version, Siena 1934). Leo XIII confirmed his cult on 15 May 1899, with a feast on 5 October.
Of his works the following have been published: *De reformatione religiosa*, Rome 1581; *Opuscola et litterae*, ibid. 1895; *Registrum litterarum*, ibid. 1937.