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SAINT ROMUALD The life of St. Romuald, whose feast the Holy Church celebrates today, is told by San Pier Damiani, a Camaldolese, in his Vita sancti Romualdi. Romuald, born in Ravenna in the X century, came from a noble family: his father was Duke Sergio degli Onesti of Ravenna and his mother Traversara Traversari. Following a bloody confrontation where his family was involved, the young Romuald, of 20 years old, retired in the near and ancient monastery of St. Apollinaris, became a monk, according to the prediction made by the servant of God for him. Very soon he went to the borders of the Veneto to meet the hermit Marinus, famous at that time for the sanctity of life and the austerity of his discipline, to have him as a teacher and as guide in the narrow and sublime path of perfection.