The Camaldolese have been in rome since the Middle Ages.
Their presence happened through the necessity of taking care of the Order's interests near the papal curia.
In time, a real community formed a stabile presence in the city where they lived as Camaldolese.

The Camaldolese lived near the Monastery of the Four Crowned Saints al Celio until 1573, when they solemnly established themselves firmly at St. Gregory al Celio.

The Camaldolese received St. Gregory's becasue the community of monks who had lived there were in a period of decadence, and because the monastery fit them as a solitary place in the city during those years.

The first Camaldolese monks there died from malaria because of the unhealthy climate rising from the swamp of the Circus Maximus.
The Camaldolese devoted themselves to bettering the place and monastery until it attained its actual harmonious structure.
Meanwhile they offered rome the same virtues characterizing the Tuscan Camaldolese.
When the Order divided into two Congregations, eremitical and cenobitic, St. Gregory al Celio joined the latter. Under the influence of the larger monastery of St. Michael of Murano in Venice, the Celian monastery became the presence of Venetian monks in Rome.

The ever greater knowledge of the Gregorian origins of the Roman monastery bears an ever refined culturla and spiritual sensibility by the Camaldolese for the thinking and pastoral activity of St. Gregory the Great (+604).

Already in the 18th and 19th centuries, and even more so during the 20th century, the attention paid to St. Gregory the Great by Roman Camaldolese became more insistent.
The Camaldolese discovered the unquestionable kinship liking the intuitions of their 11th century founders (St. Romuald, St. Peter Damian, and St. Bruno of Querfurt) with the thinking of Gregory the Great.
A commitment to know also the thinking of these Holy Fathers of the first millennium resulted, underlining above all the possibility of reviving it in our own times.



This sensibility characterizes even the Roman Camaldolese monks today.