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June 19, reminder<\/strong>
\nPosition: founder of the ECMC order<\/strong>
\nDeath: 1027<\/strong>
\nAttributes: angel, book, monk with shaved head and beard in white robe, ladder<\/strong>
\nCURRICULUM VITAE<\/strong><\/h2>\n

He came from a noble family and, as a witness to a duel, he learned the fragility of life and the futility of the desire for wealth and worldly pleasures. He sought God’s will in prayer, became a Benedictine in 972, and three years later chose a hermit’s life with strict self-discipline. He dedicated his energies to restoring monastic life to its original rigor. As a pilgrim and ardent preacher of repentance, he traveled around Italy, restoring and founding monastic houses. He founded the Camaldolese order of hermits.<\/strong>
\nCV FOR MEDITATION<\/strong><\/h2>\n

SOMEONE HAD TO DIE SO THAT I COULD LIVE<\/strong>
\nHe was born in 952 near Ravenna on the eastern coast of Italy as the son of Duke Sergius. Influenced by his parents, he spent his youth until the age of 20 indulging in worldly pleasures. He caused trouble, enjoyed noisy drinking, easy women, hunting, and other pleasures. Then he witnessed a dispute that ended in a duel between his father and a relative over a piece of land. Romuald was invited to witness the duel in which his father killed his relative. The terrible reality, in which Romuald felt a part, shook him. He recognized the fragility of life, the futility of the desire for property, and the emptiness of all worldly joys. He decided to spend 40 days in the Benedictine monastery of St. Apollinaris in nearby Classe. In solitude, he reflected on the meaning of life and decided to change his previous life. He saw the truth and also felt that “someone had to die so that I could live”. Only his death in battle led him to think about the terrible eternity he would have if he continued in his current way of life. However, he also realized that the one who had to die for him to have eternal life was Jesus. Therefore, he decided to live a penitent life, asking to be admitted to a monastery and to take vows.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The discipline that prevailed in the monastery soon seemed too weak for him. He tried to adhere more strictly to the original rule of St. Benedict, but his attitude displeased the other monks. After three years, he requested permission to go to an uninhabited region near the Venetian lagoon to live there as a hermit. He found a spiritual leader and teacher in the elderly hermit Marino, who lived in that region. The two later met in Venice with the famous abbot Guarino, who came from a monastery in the eastern Pyrenees, which was considered an important center of religious renewal. This had its origins in the Benedictine monastery of Cluny in France.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Romuald and Marino decided to go with Guarino, and they were joined by Peter Orseolo (Urseoli \u2013 note 10.1), the previous doge (the highest elected representative in Venice), who resigned his office and became a monk. And also two other citizens of the city. Because of Peter, the group left in secret. They set off through Lombardy and southern France to the Spanish border and to the monastery in Euxana. Romuald established a hermitage near the monastery and served as Peter’s spiritual leader. The reputation of the pious and ascetic hermit Romuald soon spread, and many people sought him out as a spiritual advisor. A group of disciples formed around him, for whom he was a model of spiritual life and who followed his words.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After three years, Romuald learned that his father, fearing a blood feud, had entered the monastery of St. Severus near Ravenna. However, the monastic life did not satisfy him, so he was preparing to return to the world. Romuald reacted to this news by quickly leaving for Ravenna. After meeting his father, he persuaded him not to leave the monastery and to live a penitential life there. He\u00a0himself continued to live as a hermit in the Italian region.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In Easter 998, by order of Otto III, the monks of St. Apollinaris in Classe were to elect a new abbot, and they chose Romuald. He was reluctant to accept the rank and submitted only at the emperor’s insistence. Romuald’s strict leadership led to the monks’ resistance, so he resigned his abbacy in the emperor’s presence because he would rather not be responsible for their indiscipline. He then went to Rome and visited the monastery of Monte Casino. He also traveled to other monasteries to promote the original rules of St. Benedict and restored some of them.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At the beginning of 1012, he and a few companions established a hermit’s settlement in Tuscany near a remote village in the bishopric of Fiesole. Then he met Mr. Maldoli from Arezzo, who had land on a mountain range of beech forests. He had previously seen in a dream a high ladder on the land, on which white-robed monks were ascending and descending to heaven. He was so influenced by the vision that he offered the land 50 km north of Arezzo to Romuald, who built a sanctuary and hermit’s huts on it with his companions. They called the settlement Cam\u00e1ldoli. It was the beginning of the Camaldolese order as a Benedictine branch with very strict rules. In particular, it was about practicing silence and fasting on bread, vegetables, and water. They walked in white robes, barefoot, with shaved heads and long beards. Romuald did not demand from anyone what he himself had not done. When he felt the approach of death, he prepared for it in a solitary cell in Val di Castro. He had also founded that monastery. He died at the age of 75. Five years later, in 1032, he was declared a saint.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Camaldolese Order was confirmed by Pope Alexander II in 1072. Romuald’s remains were transferred to the church of St. Blaise in Fabriano near Ancona in 1481.<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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