Bruno of Cologne

Bruno of Cologne (* 1027-1030 (1035) in Cologne;? † October 6, 1101 in the Carthusian monastery of La Torre in Calabria ) was the founder of the Carthusian Order and is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.

Biography

Bruno is according to church tradition comes from an old patrician family in Cologne, probably from the Hardefust. Descendants of this family were later often have special relations with the Ordenund the name Bruno was common in the family.

Bruno studied at the cathedral schools in Cologne and Reims philosophy and theology. In 1056 he became head of the cathedral school of Reims. In the Investiture Controversy between the Church and the secular rulers, he defended the Church's position. When the worldly Manasses I de Gourney Archbishop of Reims was Bruno had run away from him and leave Reims. After the deposition of Manasseh ' I. 1080 Bruno did not return to Reims, but appeared as a Benedictine in the abbey Molesme.

In 1084 he allowed his abbot to build a hermitage in the nearby desert of Sèche -Fontaine. Soon Bruno more hermit joined, and the terrain in SECHE -Fontaine was too small. So, Bishop Hugh of Grenoble Bruno a site in the Chartreuse Mountains in the French Alps available where Bruno with six companions greater Hermitage, the Great Charterhouse built.

In 1090, Bruno was called by one of his former students, the newly elected Pope Urban II, as its consultant to Rome. On the bishopric offered to him Reggio renounced Bruno. Already in 1091 founded another Bruno Charterhouse in La Torre in Calabria, the present monastery of Santo Stefano del Bosco in Serra San Bruno, where he remained until his death. Bruno died on 6 October 1101. Pope Leo X in 1514 spoke to him holy.

Much like the Holy Romuald of Camaldoli, the founder of Kamaldulenserordens, Bruno consolidated from Cologne at the beginning of the second millennium, the complete devotion to God and renunciation of the world in eremitical life.

The attributes of St.. Bruno are book, skulls, a crucifix, the ends of which deflect in leaves, and seven stars (they are at the same time a reference to a vision of the saint as well as on the special connection of the Carthusians for the Blessed Mother ). The hl. Bruno is invoked against obsession and the plague. His feast day in the liturgy of the Catholic Church is 6 October.