Editing Romuald (section)

{{Short description|Founder of the Camaldolese order}}
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{{Redirect|Saint Romuald|the community|Saint-Romuald, Quebec}}
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|name= Romuald
|birth_date=c. 951
|death_date=19 June 1027
|feast_day=  <br> '''Eastern Orthodox Church:''' 7 February<ref> https://www.orthodoxwest.com/kalendar </ref>   <br> [[General Roman Calendar of 1960|General Roman Calendar of 1960]]: 7 February<ref> https://1962ordo.today/day/st-romuald-2-3-2-2/ </ref> <br >'''Catholic Church:''' 19 June<ref> https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/06/19.html </ref>
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|image=Saint Romuald.JPG
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|birth_place=[[Ravenna]]
|death_place=[[Val di Castro]]
|titles=Abbot 
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'''Romuald''' ({{langx|la|Romualdus}}; {{circa|lk=no}} 951 &ndash; traditionally 19 June, c. 1025/27 AD)<ref>The traditional year of his death, given as 1027, rests entirely on testimony by Guido Grandi (died 1742), a hagiographical forger, who stated that he had seen the date in documents: see Tabacco 1942, preface:liv.</ref> was the founder of the [[Camaldolese]] order and a major figure in the eleventh-century "Renaissance of [[hermit|eremitical]] [[asceticism]]".<ref name=Howe>John Howe, "The Awesome Hermit: The Symbolic Significance of the Hermit as a Possible Research Perspective", ''Numen'' '''30'''.1 (July 1983:106-119) p 106, noting Ernst Werner, ''Pauperi Christi: Studien zu socialreligiosen Bewegungen in Zeitalter des ersten Kreuzzuges'' (Leipzig) 1956; Howe also notes the contemporary examples of [[Peter the Hermit]], leader of a crusade; [[Norbert of Xanten]], founder of the Praemostratensians, and  [[Henry of Lausanne]], declared a heretic.</ref> Romuald spent about 30 years traversing Italy, founding and reforming monasteries and hermitages.