SAINT

See also:

• BRUNO (BRUN, BRUNS) OF QUERFURT, SAINT (c. 975-1009)
• BRUNO, GIORDANO (c. 1548-1600)
• SAINT BRUNO
• BRUNO, or BRUN (925–965)

BRUNO  , founder of the Carthusians, was born in Cologne about 1030; he was educated there and afterwards at Reims and Tours, where he studied under Berengar . He was ordained at Cologne, and thence, in 1057, he was recalled to Reims to become scholasticus, or head of the cathedral school, and overseer of the schools of the diocese . He was made also canon and diocesan chancellor . Having protested against the misdoings of a new archbishop, he was deprived of all his offices and had to fly for safety (1o76) . On the deposition of the arch-bishop in xo8o, Bruno was presented by the ecclesiastical authorities to the pope for the see, but Philip I. of France successfully opposed the appointment . After this Bruno left Reims and retired, with six companions, to a desert among the mountains near Grenoble, and there founded the Carthusian order (1084) . After six years Urban II. called him to Rome and offered him the archbishopric of Reggio; but he refused it, and withdrew to a desert in Calabria, where he established two other monasteries, and died in 1101 . He wrote Commentaries on the Psalms and the Pauline Epistles, to be found in Migne, Patr . Lat. clii. and cliii.; some works by namesakes have been attributed to him . His Life will be found in the Boilandists' Acta Sanctorum (6th of October) . The best study on St Bruno's life and works is Hermann Label, Der Stiffer des Karthauser-Ordens, 1899 (vol. v . No. i of Kirchengeschichtliche Studien," Munster) .

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