Romano Bottegal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian Cistercian Hermit
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Place of Birth: Lamon, Veneto, Italy
About Romano Bottegal
- Romano Bottegal (28 December 1921 - 19 February 1978) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and professed member from the Trappists.
- Bottegal joined his order in the 1940s and lived as a hermit in Lebanon.
- He studied in Belluno and Rome before he was ordained as a priest and following this lived in Rome among his peers; he moved to Lebanon to oversee a new project there but was forced to return to Rome after it failed.
- But he was later granted permission to return there in order to live as a hermit where he remained in seclusion until his death.The beatification process for the late hermit launched in 2000 and he became titled as a Servant of God.
- The cause culminated on 9 December 2013 after he became titled as Venerable once Pope Francis confirmed that he had lived a life of heroic virtue.
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