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See also:BRUNO (BRUN, BRUNS) OF See also:QUERFURT, See also:SAINT (c. 975-1009)
, See also:German missionary See also:bishop and See also:martyr, belonged to the See also:family of the lords of See also:Querfurt in See also:Saxony
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He was educated at the famous See also:cathedral school at See also:Magdeburg, and at the See also:age of twenty was attached to the clerical See also:household of the See also:emperor See also:Otto III
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In 996 he accompanied the emperor to See also:Rome, and there gave up his See also:post and entered the monastery of SS
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Alexius and See also:Bonifacius on the Aventine, taking " in See also:religion " the name of Bonifacius
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When the See also:news reached Rome of the martyrdom of See also:Adalbert, bishop of See also:Prague (997), See also:Bruno determined to take his See also:place, and in 1004, after being consecrated by the See also:pope as See also:archbishop of the eastern See also:heathen, he set out for See also:Germany to seek aid of the emperor See also: Hist . Scriptores, iv. pp . 577, 596-612), described by A . See also:Potthast (Bibliotheca hist. med. aev.) as " in the highest degree attractive both in manner and See also:matter." A life of St Bruno was written by Dietmar, bishop of See also:Merseburg (976-1019) . This, with additions from the life of St Romuald, is published in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum (See also:June 19), vi . I, pp . 223-225 . See further U . See also:Chevalier, Repertoire See also:des See also:sources historiques, Bio-Bibliographie (See also:Paris, 1904), S.V . |
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