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CAMALDULIANS, or CAMALDOLESE

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CAMALDULIANS, or CAMALDOLESE , a religious See also:order founded by St Romuald. See also:Born of a See also:noble See also:family at See also:Ravenna c. 950, he retired at the See also:age of twenty to the See also:Benedictine monastery of S. Apollinare in Classe; but being strongly See also:drawn to the eremitical See also:life, he went to live with a See also:hermit in the neighbourhood of See also:Venice and then again near Ravenna. Here a See also:colony of hermits See also:grew up around him and he became the See also:superior. As soon as they were established in their manner of life, Romuald moved to another See also:district and there formed a second See also:settlement of hermits, only to proceed in the same way to the See also:establishment of other colonies of hermits or " deserts " as they were called. In this way during the course of his life Romuald formed a See also:great number of " deserts " throughout central See also:Italy. His See also:chief See also:foundation was at Camaldoli on the heights of the Tuscan See also:Apennines not far from See also:Arezzo, in a vale See also:snow-covered during See also:half the See also:year. Romuald's See also:idea was to reintroduce into the See also:West the See also:primitive eremitical See also:form of monachism, as practised by the first See also:Egyptian and Syrian monks. His monks dwelt in See also:separate huts around the See also:oratory, and came together only for divine service and on certain days for meals. The life was one of extreme rigour in regard to See also:food, clothing, silence and See also:general observance. Besides the hermits there were See also:lay See also:brothers to help in carrying out the See also:field See also:work and rougher occupations.

St Romuald and the See also:

early Camaldolese exercised considerable See also:influence on the religious movements of their, See also:time; the emperors See also:Otto III. and See also:Henry II. esteemed him highly and sought his See also:advice on religious questions. Disciples of St Romuald went on See also:missions to the still See also:heathen parts of See also:Russia, See also:Poland and See also:Prussia, where some of them suffered martyrdom. In his extreme old age St Romuald with twenty-five of his monks started on a missionary expedition to See also:Hungary, but he was unable to accomplish the See also:journey. He died in 1027. After his See also:death mitigations were gradually introduced into the See also:rule and manner of life; and in the monastery of St See also:Michael in See also:Murano, Venice, the life became cenobitical. From that time to the See also:present See also:day there have always been both eremitical and cenobitical Camaldolese, the latter approximating to See also:ordinary Benedictine life. The Camaldolese spread all over Italy, and into See also:Germany, Poland and See also:France. Camaldoli itself exists as a " See also:desert," the primitive observance of the See also:institute being strictly maintained. There are a few other " deserts," all in Italy, except one in Poland; and there are about 90 hermits. The chief monastery of the cenobitical Camaldolese is S. Gregorio on the Caelian See also:Hill in See also:Rome; they number less than See also:forty. Since the 11th-See also:century there have been Camaldolese nuns; at present there are five nunneries with 1,50 nuns, all belonging to the cenobitical See also:branch of the order.

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habit of the Camaldulians is See also:white. See See also:Helyot, Hist. See also:des ordres religieux (1792) v. cc. 21-25; Max Heinibucher, Orden and Kongregationen (1896) i. § 29; and the See also:art. " Camaldulenser " in Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexikon (2nd ed.), and See also:Herzog, Realencyklopddie (3rd ed.). (E. C.

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