[1][2] Romano was a parish priest of the village of Herculano who was noted for his simplistic and frugal manner of living and for his great care of orphans.

Vincenzo Romano was born on 3 June 1751 to poor parents Nicola Luca and Maria Grazia Rivieccio in Via Piscopia in the town of Torre del Greco in metropolitan Naples.

[3] But going to commence such studies proved difficult since Cardinal Antonino Sersale imposed new admission rules that made it harder to enter.

[3] He commenced his studies for the priesthood in Naples at the age of fourteen and was ordained as a priest on 10 June 1775 in the Basilica di Santa Restituta.

[1][2] He was assigned to Torre del Greco and was noted for his simple and austere life as well as his devotion to the care of orphans and work with seminarians.

Romano worked to rebuild what was damaged after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 15 June 1794 and this included re-building his church – that of Santa Croce – on his own.

He devoted hours to organizing rebuilding efforts following the disaster and even cleared a great deal of rubble himself with his own hands.

[5] But on 4 March 1982 an application was made for another exhumation due to conservation complications which Cardinal Corrado Ursi oversaw from 1–4 July 1982.

The beatification process commenced under Pope Gregory XVI on 22 September 1843 and this start to the cause enabled Romano to be titled as a Servant of God.

On 25 March 1895 he was declared to be Venerable after Pope Leo XIII recognized that Romano had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue.

[6] Two miracles were placed under the investigation of a diocesan tribunal for evaluation and both soon received papal approval which allowed for Pope Paul VI to preside over Romano's beatification on 17 November 1963.

[5] The third miracle required for his canonization was subjected to a diocesan tribunal in Naples and concluded its business on 14 September 2015 in a Mass that Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe presided over to seal the boxes of documentation prior to sending them to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints for additional evaluation.

validated the diocesan process for the alleged miracle on 21 June 2016 with a team of medical experts approving the miraculous nature of the healing on 6 July 2017.

The first miracle recognized was the healing of Maria Carmela Restucci in December 1891 from an aggressive tumor in the left breast that later developed into ulcers and lesions that were malignant.

The second miracle that was recognized was the healing of Maria Carmela Cozzolino who was a professed religious but contracted – on 10 July 1940 – a serious throat ailment that worsened at a rapid pace that made both swallowing and breathing quite difficult for her.