Saint Bruno

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.

Bruno, St (c.1032–1101), founder of the Carthusian Order. He became head of the cathedral school at Reims c.1057. Soon after 1080 he turned to the religious life. After a short time under the direction of St Robert of Molesme, he went with six companions into the mountainous district near Grenoble, where he laid the foundations of the Carthusian Order (1084). In 1090 he was summoned to Italy by his former pupil, Pope Urban II. He refused the archbishopric of Reggio, retired to Calabria, and founded the monastery of La Torre, where he died. Feast day, 6 Oct.

Bruno, St (c.1032–1101) German-born French churchman. After withdrawing to the mountains of Chartreuse in 1084, he founded the Carthusian order at La Grande Chartreuse in SE France in the same year.