Pietro I Orseolo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pietro I Orseolo

doge of Venice, Monk, Hermit

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0928

Place of Birth: Udine, Friuli–Venezia Giulia, Italy

Date of Death: 10-Jan-0987

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Pietro I Orseolo, O.S.B.
Cam.
(Peter Urseolus) (928–987) was the Doge of Venice from 976 until 978.
He abdicated his office and left in the middle of the night to become a monk.
He later entered the Camaldolese Order.
He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church following his canonization in 1731.
In 1733 the Venetian librarian, Giuseppe Bettinelli, published an edition of a biography written by the infamous heretical Friar Fulgenzio Manfredi in 1606.