18 Facts About Romano Guardini

Romano Guardini was an Italian, naturalized German Catholic priest, philosopher and theologian.

Romano Michele Antonio Maria Guardini was born in Verona in 1885 and was baptized in the Church of San Nicolo all'Arena.

Romano Guardini's father, Romano Tullo, was a poultry wholesaler.

Romano Guardini studied Theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Tubingen.

Romano Guardini was ordained a diocesan priest in Mainz by Georg Heinrich Kirstein in 1910.

Romano Guardini became a German citizen in 1911 so that he could teach theology in Germany, a job paid by the government.

Romano Guardini briefly worked in a pastoral position at St Christoph's Church, Mainz before returning to Freiburg to work on his doctorate in Theology under Engelbert Krebs.

Romano Guardini received his doctorate in 1915 for a dissertation on Bonaventure.

Romano Guardini completed his "Habilitation" in Dogmatic Theology at the University of Bonn in 1922, again with a dissertation on Bonaventure.

In 1945, Romano Guardini was appointed professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tubingen and resumed lecturing on the Philosophy of Religion.

Romano Guardini was buried in the priests' cemetery of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in Munich.

Romano Guardini's estate was left to the Catholic Academy in Bavaria that he had co-founded.

In December 2017, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising opened the cause of canonization for Romano Guardini, thus designating him a Servant of God.

Romano Guardini's books were often powerful studies of traditional themes in the light of present-day challenges or examinations of current problems as approached from the Christian, and especially Catholic, tradition.

Romano Guardini's first major work, Vom Geist der Liturgie, published during the First World War, was a major influence on the Liturgical Movement in Germany and by extension on the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

Romano Guardini is generally regarded as the father of the liturgical movement in Germany, and in his "Open Letter" of April 1964 to Mgr.

Romano Guardini had a strong influence in Central Europe; in Slovenia, for example, an influential group of Christian socialists, among whom Edvard Kocbek, Pino Mlakar, Vekoslav Grmic and Boris Pahor, incorporated Guardini's views in their agenda.

In 1952, Romano Guardini won the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.