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2 unusual facts about Romuald


Bezprym

He was the eldest son of Bolesław I the Brave, King of Poland, but was deprived of the succession by his father, who around 1001 sent him to Italy, in order to became a monk at one of Saint Romuald's hermitages in Ravenna.

Bezprym was then destined to a Church career, a fact who is demonstrated in the Vita of St. Saint Romuald, a hermit from Ravenna.


Old Great Bulgaria

Grimoald sent Altzek and his followers to his son Romuald in Benevento and they were then granted by Romuald land northeast of Naples in the "spacious but up till that time deserted" towns of Sepino, Bovianum (Boiano), and Isernia, in the present-day region of Molise in the Apennines.

Posen speeches

In Romuald Karmakar's 2000 film "The Himmler Project", the actor Manfred Zapatka reads the entire speech of October 4, 1943 word for word according to the recording, including all the nuances and incidents also recorded.

Romuald Singer

Romuald Singer (died ca. 1992) was director of the international section of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), Strasbourg, and chairman of the Enlarged and the Legal Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO).

Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa

When the Doge of Venice, Pietro I Orseolo, accepted Romuald's advice to become a monk, abdicated his office, and fled in the night, it was to Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa that he retired, accompanied by Romuald and his companion, Marinus, who established a hermitage nearby.

SPECTRA helmet

The Canadian version is made by Barrday of Ontario (trial versions) and GSI (Gallet Sécurité Internationale) in Saint-Romuald, Quebec.

St. Brendan's College

Groundbreaking for the school started on 8 October 1939 and presided by Bishop Romuald Denis Hayes of Rockhampton.


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