Saint Romuald of Ravenna

Catholic icon of Saint Romuald of Ravenna on thick plywood 20mm, which does not sting and keeps its shape over time. Preparation with acrylic stucco and have been used acrylic colors. It has been covered with varnish to keep the colors undiluted in time and humidity. Hanging clip included on the back of the icon.   

St. Romuald was born in Ravenna from the aristocratic Onesti family. At the age of twenty he served as second to his father, who killed a relative in a duel over property. Romuald was devastated, and went to the Basilica of Sant Apollinare in Classe to do 40 days of penance. After some indecision, Romuald became a monk there. He was granted permission to go to Venice and placed himself under the direction of a hermit named Marinus and lived a life of extraordinary severity. About 978 Romuald and Marinus erected a hermitage close to the Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa monastery and lived there for about 10 years. After that he spent the next 30 years going about Italy, founding and reforming monasteries and hermitages. In 1012, he arrived at the Diocese of Arezzo. Maldolus gave him some land and Romuald built five cells for hermits, which, with the monastery at Fontebuono, built 2 years later, became the famous mother-house of the Camaldolese Order. Romuald founded several other monasteries, including the monastery of Val di Castro, where he died in 1027. His feast day is on June 19.