Dolindo Ruotolo

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Dolindo Ruotolo (6 October 1882, Naples, Italy–19 November 1970, Naples, Italy) was an Italian Catholic priest. His beatification process was opened and he is thus titled a Servant of God. Ruotolo has been recognized as an advocate of spiritual practice called the "spirituality of surrender". Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Papal Almoner, has cited Ruotolo's personal devotion as an inspiration. He called himself "Mary’s little old man". He lived in such great poverty that his own family turned away from him. He opened his arms without fear to embrace contagious sick people, caressing and kissing them. He offered himself as a victim soul for mankind, and was afflicted with many sufferings, including complete paralysis for the last ten years of his life. In 1941, Ruotolo, writing under the pseudonym of "Dain Cohenel", distributed to the Italian Catholic bishops a pamphlet attacking Catholic biblical scholarship, Un gravissimo pericolo per la Chiesa e per le anime. II sistema critico...

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