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Patron Saints Index: Saint Romuald - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintr07.htm

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Memorial 19 June; prior to 1969 his feast was held on 7 Feburary, the date of the translation of his relics in 1481 Profile Italian nobility who spent a wild youth. Acting as second, he witnessed his father kill another man in a duel, and sought to atone for the crime by becoming a Benedictine monk at Classe, Italy. Abbot in 996. A wanderer, he established several hermitages and monasteries in central and northern Italy. He tried to evangalize the Slavs, but met with little success. Founded the Camaldolese Benedictines.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Romuald - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13179b.htm

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Born at Ravenna, probably about 950; died at Val-di-Castro, 19 June, 1027. St. Peter Damian, his first biographer, and almost all the Camaldolese writers assert that St. Romuald's age at his death was one hundred and twenty, and that therefore he was born about 907.

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