Saint of the Day 19/June
Saint of the Day (June 19) ✠ St. Romuald ✠ Born: 951 AD, Ravenna, Italy Died: June 19, 1027, Fabriano, Italy Feast: 19 June; 7 February (1595–1969) Parents: Traversara Traversari, Sergius degli Onesti Born at Ravenna, probably about 950; died at Val-di-Castro, 19 June 1027. Saint Peter Damian, his first biographer, and almost all the Camaldolese writers assert that Saint Romuald’s age at his death was one hundred and twenty, and that therefore he was born about 907. This is disputed by most modern writers. Such a date not only results in a series of improbabilities with regard to events in the saint’s life, but is also irreconcilable with known dates, and probably was determined from some mistaken inference by Saint Peter Damian. In his youth Romuald indulged in the usual thoughtless and even vicious life of the tenth-century noble, yet felt greatly drawn to the eremetical life. At the age of twenty, struck wit...