Romano Bottegal
Italian Cistercian Hermit
The Vatican record
- 9 December 2013 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2013)
Who they were
Romano Bottegal, OCSO (28 December 1921 – 19 February 1978) was an Italian Trappist priest.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
The Church has declared this person’s heroic virtue, which is what the title Venerable means. One approved miracle is needed before beatification.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
Romano Bottegal has been declared Venerable; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Trappists: the cause of Romano Bottegal.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q15618156 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Romano Bottegal (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The dates and the step marked “Vatican record” come from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; the rest comes from Wikidata and is not yet checked.