Romano Guardini

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Romano Guardini (1885 – 1968) was a Roman Catholic priest, author, and academic.

Born in Verona, Italy in 1885, Guardini moved to Germany at the age of one and lived there all his life. He held academic positions at the Universities of Berlin, Tübingen, and Munich, but was prevented from teaching during much of the Second World War by the Nazis. His books were often powerful studies of traditional themes in the light of present-day challenges, or conversely examinations of current problems as approached from the Christian, and especially Roman Catholic, tradition. He was offered the cardinal's red hat toward the end of his life in 1965 by Pope Paul VI, but he respectfully declined.

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

Guardini died in 1968, and is buried in a little chapel of the Sankt Ludwig Kirche in Munich, where he preached several years.

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• Romano Guardini (National Institute for the Renewal of the Priesthood)
• The Spirit of the Liturgy by Romano Guardini