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Tim Hanlon

HISTORICAL FACTS: Couple planning a wedding split up to become priest and nun after nine years together - The Untold Story

A man decided to become a priest and his fiancee became a nun after they were engaged to each other for nine years - but then decided to answer a higher calling.

Italian couple Angelo Ragosta and Maria Giuseppina were together for almost a decade after starting a relationship when he was 16 years old and she was 15. But shortly before their wedding, they decided to take a different path.

Angelo reportedly celebrated 10 years in the priesthood on April 21, taking to social media to share how they both decided to take up Catholic religious orders.

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