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ROMUALD
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The following is adapted from the Oxford Dictionary of
the Christian Church
ROMUALD,
St.
(c.950–1027),
founder of the Camaldolese Order. A nobleman of Ravenna,
he entered the abbey of Sant’Apollinare in Classe through horror at his father’s
having killed a man in a duel. In 998 he was appointed abbot, but the life not
proving sufficiently severe, he resigned in the next year and retired to the
neighbouring marshes to practise rigid asceticism. In his later years he
wandered round Italy, founding hermitages and monasteries, that at Campus
Malduli becoming the centre of the Camaldolese Order. Feast day, formerly 7
Feb., now 19 June. His biography was written by the Camaldolese
church-reformer Cardinal
St. Peter Damian.
Frag. of exposition on
Ps. 68 attrib. to Romuald in J. P. Migne, PL
140. 1125–8. Life by St Peter Damian (c.1040); repr. from A. Mai’s edn.
of Damian’s works in J. P. Migne, op. cit., 144. 953–1008; and ed. G. Tabacco
(Fonti per la Storia d’Italia, 94; 1957). F. M. da Napoli, O. Camald., Delle
notizie storiche della vita di San Romoaldo (Naples, 1716). B. Collina,
Vita di San Romualdo, fondatore delta religione camaldolese (2 pts.,
Bologna, 1752). W. Franke,
Quellen und
Chronologie zur Geschichte Romualdo von Camaldoli und seiner
Einsiedlergenossenschaften im Zeitalter Ottos III
(Diss., Halle,
1910); id.,
Romuald
von Camaldoli und seine Reformtätigkeit zur Zeit Ottos III
(Historische
Studien, 107; 1913). Modern Lives by A. Pagnani (Sassoferrato, 1927; 2nd edn.,
1967) and T. Ciampelli (Ravenna, 1927). J. Leclercq, OSB, ‘Saint Romuald et le
monachisme missionnaire’, R.
Bén. 72 (1962), pp. 307–23. G. Tabacco, ‘Romualdo di Ravenna e gli inizi
dell’eremitismo camaldolese’, L’eremitismo in occidente nei secoli XI e XII
(Miscellanea del Centro di Studi Medioevali, 4; Pubblicazioni dell’Universitŕ
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Contributi, Serie Terza, Varia, 4 [1965]), pp.
73–119. L. A. St L. Toke in CE 13 (1912), p. 179. G. Tabacco and P.
Cannata in Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 11 (1968), cols. 365–84, s.v.
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