Saint Bruno
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Saint Bruno c.1030-1101, German monk, founder of the Carthusians , b. Cologne. He studied and taught at Reims. In 1084 he took six companions and founded a little monastery in the Alps, which became the mother house of the Carthusian order (see Chartreuse, Grande ). In 1090, Pope Urban II, whom Bruno had taught, called him to Rome as a counselor. He died in Italy in retirement at a monastery he had founded. Feast: Oct. 6.
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