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St. Romuald

Feast 06-19 · Canonized 1582

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Romuald was born around 951 in Ravenna, Italy, into a noble family. After witnessing his father kill a relative in a duel, he entered a monastery to do penance, and later became a hermit, wandering through Italy founding small communities of hermits.

Around 1012 he founded the monastery of Camaldoli in Tuscany, which gave its name to the Camaldolese branch of the Benedictine family, combining the solitary life of hermits with community life.

He died in 1027, reportedly at the age of about 120. He is remembered for his strict asceticism and his saying that one should sit in one's cell like a paradise.

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Suggested prayer

O God, who taught Romuald to sit in his cell like a paradise, grant through his intercession that hermits and monks may find You in silence and remain with You in prayer. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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