Stone & Incense Search
Start hereCurious, or no faithEvangelical, Pentecostal or ProtestantFrom another faithSomeone I love is CatholicBecoming CatholicI was Catholic once Today in the ChurchLibraryHard questionsVoices of the revivalTake the next stepAboutSources & methodSupport the site
The saints

St. Romuald

A young noble who watched his father kill a man in a duel, and spent his life in silence.

Feast: 19 June · about 950 to 1027 · The Middle Ages · Ravenna and Camaldoli, Italy

Read the story 1 min read
Painting of St. Romuald, an old monk with a long white beard and a halo.

Fra Angelico, 1441. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.

Home / The saints / St. Romuald

Ravenna, about 970

Romuald was a young nobleman of Ravenna when his father killed a relative in a duel over property.1

Romuald went to a monastery to do forty days of penance for his father.1

He stayed, and spent the rest of his life founding hermitages and monasteries.

Patronage No official patronage we can cite yet. The Church remembers him as the founder of the Camaldolese monks.

01St. Romuald

Camaldoli

The most famous is Camaldoli in Tuscany, where monks live in separate cells and pray in silence.1

Live it this week

Take a short silent retreat

Romuald built places of silence. Spend thirty minutes in silence this week with no phone, music or book, in a church or outside, and just be with God.

Notes

How we know · 1 source for this page
  1. Franciscan Media, Saint of the Day: “Saint Romuald”. franciscanmedia.org. franciscanmedia.org

The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) is in the public domain; we quote the New Advent edition. Texts of the Holy See are quoted briefly from vatican.va. Scripture: World English Bible, Catholic edition (public domain); Verse numbers are modern, with Douay-Rheims numbers in brackets where they differ. Photographs: Wikimedia Commons, credited under each image; full list on the photo credits page.

Lines in the narrator’s voice, without a note, are our reflection, not a historical claim. Stone & Incense restates Church teaching in plain words; our wording is not an official Church text. Report an errorCorrections.