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BRUNO, SAINT

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 685 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BRUNO, See also:
SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")
SAINT , founder of the See also:

CARTHUSIANS

Carthusians, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne about 1030; he was educated there and afterwards at See also:

Reims and See also:

TOURS

Tours, where he studied under Berengar. He was ordained at Cologne, and thence, in 1057, he was recalled to Reims to become scholasticus, or See also:

head of the See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral school, and overseer of the See also:

SCHOOLS

schools of the See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese. He was made also See also:

CANON

canon and diocesan See also:

CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor. Having protested against the misdoings of a new See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop, he was deprived of all his offices and had to See also:

FLY (formed on the root of the supposed original Tent. fleugan, to fly)

fly for safety (1o76). On the deposition of the See also:

arch-See also:

bishop in xo8o, Bruno was presented by the ecclesiastical authorities to the See also:

pope for the see, but See also:

Philip I. of See also:

France successfully opposed the See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment. After this Bruno See also:

LEFT

left Reims and retired, with six companions, to a See also:

DESERT

desert among the mountains near See also:

GRENOBLE

Grenoble, and there founded the Carthusian See also:

order (1084). After six years See also:

Urban II. called him to See also:

Rome and offered him the archbishopric of Reggio; but he refused it, and withdrew to a desert in See also:

CALABRIA

Calabria, where he established two other monasteries, and died in 1101. He wrote Commentaries on the See also:

Psalms and the Pauline Epistles, to be found in See also:

MIGNE, JACQUES PAUL (1800-1875)

Migne, Patr. See also:

Lat. clii. and cliii.; some See also:

WORKS

works by namesakes have been attributed to him. His See also:

LIFE

Life will be found in the Boilandists' Acta Sanctorum (6th of See also:

OCTOBER

October). The best study on St Bruno's life and works is See also:

Hermann See also:

LABEL (a French word, now represented by lambeau, possibly a variant; it is of obscure origin and may be connected with a Teutonic word appearing in the English " lap," a flap or fold)

Label, Der Stiffer See also:

des Karthauser-Ordens, 1899 (vol. v. No. i of Kirchengeschichtliche Studien," See also:

Munster).

(E. C.

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