Jun. 19 Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Romuald, Abbot, Opt. Mem.

The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Romuald (951-1027) who was born in Ravenna of a noble family. He was the founder of the Camaldolese monks--one of the Italian branches of the Benedictines--in which the eremitical life is combined with life in community. He died in 1027, after a life of prayer and rigorous penance.