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.
He started by quoting the Bible, saying: "Behold the Lord's doing; It is marvellous in our eyes - Psalm 117.
"We were supposed to get married, and instead we said yes to God."
He said: "On the 21st of April 2013 I was ordained Presbyterian by the then Cardinal Sepe in the Cathedral of Naples."
And his ex-girlfriend, Paola, who he had been with for nine years, joined the Monastery of Carmelo at Ponti Rossi in Naples where she is now known as Sister Maria Giuseppina dell’Amore incarnato.
Angelo said they had got engaged on December 29, 1996, when they were 16 and 15 and were "two babies".
They had their ups and downs, with Angelo occasionally being dumped before they would get back together again. They then spent the next nine years together until 2005, when they were planning to get married.
Angelo said: "We had planned to get married, but God was about to change the cards slightly, just a little."
He said "the wedding had been planned" and that they were looking for a house while Paola was studying economics.
But then "God made her understand that he wanted her" and Paola eventually left him.
Angelo said that "God won and she left me for good".
He said that it "wasn't a walk in the park " but after a "rather tough period", there was then a "friendship that no one could explain, perhaps not even us".
Angelo said that he got on well with Paola's parents, who treated him like a son, and that he and Paola would regularly go out to dinner as friends.
But eventually, everything "unravelled" for him.
He said: "I continued my life working, but in my heart I became restless. I kept working, I had a salary, I went out with other girls but everything was tasteless, nothing was enough for me, I had everything and yet I wasn't happy.
"Until one evening in Tuscany, after praying vespers, I ask God the fateful question with which Father Michele had harassed us. In short, I asked him 'But why am I on the face of the Earth? What do you want from me?'."
He added: "I opened the Bible at random, one of the only two or three times I had done so in my life, and this word comes out.
"The word of the Lord came to me: 'Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, before you came out into the light, I had consecrated you (Jer 1,4-5)."
Angelo said that he then joined the seminary at the age of 26 and was ordained a priest at 33.
He added: "And today, whenever I'm in Naples, since I'm abroad as a pastoral service for the Italian communities, I go to her monastery, and the routine hasn't changed."
And he jokingly said: "PS: everything was meticulously examined by Sister Maria Giuseppina to get her approval, in order to avoid another lecture or incur excommunication latae sententiae..."
'Latae sententiae' is a Latin term used in the Catholic Church's Canon Law, which refers to the automatic penalty or punishment that is imposed on a person who commits a particular offence.
