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ROMANO BOTTEGAL, RELIGIOUS - 19 FEBRUARY

 

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Saints celebrated on the 19th of February

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VENERABLE ROMANO BOTTEGAL, RELIGIOUS

Venerable Romano Bottegal, born on December 28, 1921, was an Italian religious priest of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance. joined the order in the 1940s. He studied in Belluno and Rome before he was ordained as a priest in 1946 and afterwards lived in Italy among his brethren; serving as the novice master until 1957. 

In 1961 - at the request of the abbot of Latroun in Israel - he helped to contribute to the founding of a Trappist convent in Lebanon that would follow the Maronite Rite. Later on, Romano lived as a hermit where he remained in seclusion until his death of tuberculosis on February 19, 1978.

The beatification process for Romano Bottegal was launched in 2000. On December 9, 2013 he became titled as venerable once Pope Francis confirmed that Romano Bottegal had lived a life of heroic virtue.

Sources:
https://ocso.org/history/saints-blesseds-martyrs/venerable-fr-romano-bottegal/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romano_Bottegal
https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/12820/V%C3%A9n%C3%A9rable-Romano-Bottegal.html
https://www.charbelfriends.com/padre_romano_bottegal.html

































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