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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Bruno (1030-1101)
Bruno belonged to the family of Hartenfaust, or Hardebüst, one of the principal families of the city, and it is in remembrance of this origin that different members of the family of Hartenfaust have received from the Carthusians either some special prayers for the dead, as in the case of Peter
Bruno of Hardevüst, Baron of Laach and Burgomaster of the town of Bergues-S. Winnoc, in the Diocese of Cambrai, with whom the Hardevüst family in the male line became extinct on 22 March, 1784.
Bruno in conference; the Apparition of the Blessed Virgin to St.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03014b.htm   (2612 words)

  
  Bruno of Cologne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bruno completed his education at the cathedral school at Reims, both in the liberal arts and scripture and returned to be a canon at St. Cunibert's, Cologne, but was recalled to direct the school at Reims in 1056.
In 1077, at the urging of Bruno and the clergy at Reims, de Gournai was suspended at a council at Autun.
Bruno went to the Guiscard court at Mileto to visit the count in his sickness (1098 and 1101), and to baptize his son Roger (1097), the future King of Sicily.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruno_of_Cologne   (1579 words)

  
 St. Bruno
With St. Bruno were Landuin, the two Stephens of Bourg and Die, canons of St. Rufus, and Hugh the Chaplain, "all, the most learned men of their time", and two laymen, Andrew and Guerin, who afterwards became the first lay brothers.
Bruno is the popular saint of Calabria; every year a great multitude resort to the Charterhouse of St. Stephen, on the Monday and Tuesday of Pentecost, when his relics are borne in procession to the hermitage of St. Mary, where he lived, and the people visit the spots sanctified by his presence.
Bruno's distinction as the founder of an order was that he introduced into the religious life the mixed form, or union of the eremitical and cenobite modes of monasticism, a medium between the Camaldolese Rule and that of St. Benedict.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/bruno,saint2.html   (2244 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Bruno of Querfurt
Bruno, made him one of his court, and took him to Rome when the young emperor went there in 996 to be crowned.
Bruno was not able to go at once to Poland; so, starting from Ratisbon on the Danube, he went into Hungary, where St. Alalbert had also laboured.
Bruno spent five months among them, baptized some thirty adults, aided in bringing about a treaty of peace with Russia, and left in that country one of his companions whom he had consecrated bishop.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03018a.htm   (799 words)

  
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Bruno soon learned of the archbishop's wickedness and was influential with Hugh of St. Dié in attaining his removal.
Bruno soon found that he was not called to the cenobitic life and in 1084 he journeyed into the Chartreuse country in the heart of the Alps and with six companions built a small oratory and cells, placed a small distance from each other.
Bruno did not set out to start an order, but in his letters to his monks he outlined a simple and prayerful way of life, which became the foundation of the Carthusian spirituality.
www.christdesert.org /public_graphics/martyrology/names/b/bruno.txt   (488 words)

  
 St. Bruno the Carthusian
St. Bruno, founder of the Carthusians, was born into an unidentified noble family of Cologne, Germany.
Bruno was too omnicompetent, however, to be left in the schoolroom.
Bruno's secret for survival was to inculcate a spirit of love and joy that made the austerity pleasant and achieved in its practitioners a wonderful sense of balance.
www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id255.htm   (811 words)

  
 St. Bruno - Ă–kumenisches Heiligenlexikon
While still quite young (a pueris) he went to complete his education at Reims, attracted by the reputation of the episcopal school and of its director, Heriman.
According to a tradition preserved in the Carthusian Order, Bruno was persuaded to abandon the world by the sight of a celebrated prodigy, popularized by the brush of Lesueur - the triple resurrection of the Parisian doctor, Raymond Diocres.
Resolved to continue the work of reform commenced by Gregory VII, and being obliged to struggle against the antipope, Guibert of Ravenna, and the Emperor Henry IV, he sought to surround himself with devoted allies and called his ancient master ad Sedis Apostolicae servitium.
www.heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Bruno_der_Kartaeuser.html?print   (2248 words)

  
 St. Francis de Sales_Saints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bruno later returned to Cologne but went back to Rheims in 1080 when Manasses was deposed, and though the people of Rheims wanted to make Bruno archbishop, he decided to pursue an eremitical life.
The fame of the group and their founder spread, and in 1090, Bruno was brought to Rome, against his wishes, by Pope Urban II (whom he had taught at Rheims) as Papal Adviser in the reformation of the clergy.
Bruno persuaded Urban to allow him to resume his eremitical state, founded St. Mary's at La Torre in Calabria, declined the Pope's offer of the archbishopric of Reggio, became a close friend of Count Robert of Sicily, and remained there until his death on October 6.
www.stfrancisdesales.com /saints/bruno.htm   (374 words)

  
 St. Bruno, Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the Day, October 6 @ TraditionInAction.org
When St. Bruno realized this, he denounced him to superior ecclesiastical authorities, and the unworthy Prelate was called to answer for his misdeeds.
Bruno soon initiated the building of a hermitage, which was finished one year later and its chapel consecrated.
We also should ask St. Bruno to watch over the desolate situation of the Catholic Church, and help to restore her, and in her, the order that he founded, the Carthusians.
www.traditioninaction.org /SOD/j041sdBruno10-3.htm   (1613 words)

  
 St Bruno
Bruno is a common German name (it means brown) and there have been a number of Brunos canonised in the history of the church.
The most notable St Bruno was born in Cologne in 1030 and died in southern Italy in 1101.
It may be romantic to think that St Bruno might have met a St Bernard on his travels to Rome across the Swiss Alps but it was no more than a marketing man's ploy to continue the theme of saints in advertising campaigns.
www.johnbarber.com /stbruno.html   (834 words)

  
 St. Robert's Catholic Church - PARISH HISTORY
From the very beginning, and even before, it was clear that St. Robert's would be a people parish, of and for the parishioners who lived roundabout, hill-dwellers and flat landers, all drawn together in their love for a church visible in each other.
Over the entrance, however, there's still a figure of St. Bruno, the austere and prayerful Cartusian monk for whom the city and mother parish are named.
Among the graduates of St. Robert's School are two Priests: Father Francis Cilia of the Diocese of San Jose and Father James Schaukowitch of the Society of Jesus.
www.saintroberts.org /history.htm   (2089 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : October 06, 2005 : Bruno; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher (USA)
Bruno was born in 1030 in Cologne, Germany.
Born at St. Antoine in Quebec, Canada, Eulalie Durocher was the youngest of ten children.
St. Bruno, born in Cologne about 1030, was the founder of a religious Order, the Carthusians.
www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2005-10-06   (848 words)

  
 PGSA - St. Bruno Chicago
The new pastor made plans for an addition to St. Bruno school and ground was broken in June 1963.
An air conditioning system was installed in St. Bruno Church and the changes in liturgy authorized by Vatican II were implemented in the parish.
St. Bruno parish involves itself with the community and cooperates with local law enforcement agencies, the local civic group (Archer Heights Civic Association), Chicago Park District, and area public elementary and high schools.
www.pgsa.org /ArchChiPolPar/StBrunoChi.htm   (1015 words)

  
 Comune di Serra San Bruno
Significant is also the presence of a reliquary given to St. Bruno by the countess Adelaide, second wife of Ruggiero the Norman, where the precious piece of Christ’s cross is preserved with other relics.
Above them are placed two altar-pieces that portray on one side the passing away of St. Anne from the Roman school in 1642 and on the other side the Apparition of the Virgin Mary to St. Bruno by Paolo De Matteis in 1721.
The aisle-less interior lodges St. Rocco’s statue to whom a folk festivity is dedicated the night of August the sixteenth.
www.comune.serrasanbruno.vv.it /chiese_eng.asp   (1297 words)

  
 Mercantile buys Bruno Stolze - St. Louis Business Journal:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bruno and Stolze both were working at A.G. Edwards when they decided to start their own company, originally envisioned as a financial planning services firm.
Bruno Stolze's commission fees are based on a formula that takes into account the number of shares and the principal amount of a transaction.
Bruno said the company's fees tend to be lower than national firms' such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments but higher than deep discounters.
www.bizjournals.com /stlouis/stories/1998/06/22/story1.html?t=printable   (1030 words)

  
 Bruno and Kelly capture second PGA Life & Quarter Century event
Bob Bruno and Paul Kelly were the overall winners Nov. 4 in the Better Ball of Partners format.
Bruno, 70, and Kelly, 72, were the overall winners on The Dye Course in the Better Ball of Partners format with 64-67-131, and also cashed in each day in the individual age group competition.
In addition to Bruno in the 70-79 flight, other age group winners Tuesday were Fabian, 59-under, 72; Bob Menne, Alpine, N.J., and Zimmerman, 60-69, 68; and Bob Watson, Jupiter, 80-over, 83.
www.pga.com /news/pganews/pgamedianewsletter/bruno111103.cfm   (621 words)

  
 St. Bruno's Cemetery, Waukesha County Genealogy (GenWeb)
The cemetery is located in the Town of Ottawa, West of Dousman on County Highway Z, west of Highway 67 behind St. Bruno Catholic Church.
The first cemetery of St. Bruno's was established in 1850 on the Boniface Link farm in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 8.
18 Sept 1911 in St. Bruno's cemetery/child of Peter and Catherina (nee Gerlach) Gramling Child/d.
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 The New Monastery - St. Bruno
Bruno appointed as Chancellor of the Archdiocese under Archbishop Manasses while continuing as Rector of the School.
Bruno, along with several other canons of the Cathedral, is forced to take refuge from Archbishop Manasses and goes into exile at castle of Count Ebal of Roucy.
The new Pope, Urban II (Bruno′s former pupil at Rheims), calls Bruno to Rome to assist the Pope with his counsel in the continuing church crisis over simony and lay-investiture.
www.aviana.com /nm/bruno.html   (560 words)

  
 Spero Forum - Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic Discussion - Oct 6th St. Bruno
Bruno, the Founder of the Charterhouse Monks, was born at Cologne.
At length Bruno, full of graces and good works, and famous for godliness not less than for learning, fell asleep in the Lord, and was buried in the monastery of St. Stephen, founded by the same Earl Roger, where he is still held in great honour.
We pray thee, O Lord, that the intercession of thy blessed Confessor Saint Bruno may be profitable unto us for our succour : that we, which have sinned grievously in the sight of thy heavenly majesty ; may by his prayers and merits obtain the remission of all our iniquities.
www.speroforum.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2634   (506 words)

  
 St. Bruno - Catholic Online
Bruno was born in Cologne of the prominent Hartenfaust family.
The fame of the group and their founder spread, and in 1090, Bruno was brought to Rome, against his wishes, by Pope Urban II (whom he had taught at Rheims) as Papal Adviser in the reformation of the clergy.
Bruno persuaded Urban to allow him to resume his eremitical state, founded St. Mary's at La Torre in Calabria, declined the Pope's offer of the archbishopric of Reggio, became a close friend of Count Robert of Sicily, and remained there until his death on October 6.
www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=575   (790 words)

  
 TobaccoReviews.com: Blend Detail: Imperial Tobacco Group, PLC - St. Bruno
As St. Bruno's was first produced in 1896, it is possible that the earliest versions had not yet incorporated the use of white burley, which did not come into favor until the 1900's.
The principal virtue of St Bruno, to me, is as a transitional choice, between the sweeter blends I prefer at an earlier hour, and the darker latakia mélanges I smoke in the evening.
Bruno is a combination of deeply matured flue-cured Virginia tobaccos with a tasty addition of dark-fired tobacco to give it just the right amount of spice and strength.
www.tobaccoreviews.com /blend_detail.cfm?ALPHA=S&TID=1249   (6675 words)

  
 St. Bruno Doll Making Group
Bruno aims at encouraging women to get involved in fulltime work and to create women entreprenuers to enable women to create rather than seek for jobs.
St. Bruno lacks funds to purchase more sewing machines to, speed up their work.
Bruno therefore calls upon all well wishers and charitable organisations to come out and aid them in any way possible so that they can better accomplish their dream.
www.wougnet.org /Profiles/sbdmg.html   (779 words)

  
 Sisters of the Monastic Family of Bethlehem of the Assumption of the Virgin and of St Bruno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
of the Assumption of the Virgin and of St Bruno,
May St Bruno, tireless custodian of the Kingdom to come, obtain that you remain vigilant in prayer, keeping "watch, holy and persevering, as you wait for the return of the Master, to open to him as soon as he knocks (cf.
In particular, I invite your monastic Family, whose title bears the name of Bethlehem, the birthplace of the Emmanuel, to intensify its prayers for the Near East, imploring the Lord to grant the grace of peace and reconciliation to all the inhabitants of this region, battered by violence.
www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2004/may/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20040531_monache-betlemme_en.html   (344 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Bruno
Retiring from public life, he and his companions built a hermitage at Torre, where, 1095, the monastery of Saint Stephen was built.
Bruno combined in the religious life the eremetical and the cenobitic; his learning is apparent from his scriptural commentaries.
When you observe true obedience with prudence and enthusiasm, it is clear that you wisely pick the most delightful and nourishing fruit of divine Scripture.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintb14.htm   (316 words)

  
 St. Bruno Catholic School
The first few years of life at St. Bruno Catholic School were full of excitement and change.
We were officially recognized as a separate entity and given the name St. Bruno in March 1974.
Students in kindergarten were at St. Mary of the Angels Church basement, grades 1 to 3 were at St. Patrick's (St. George and College), and grades 4 to 8 were at St. Paul's (Queen and Parliament).
www.tcdsb.org /schools/stbruno.asp   (315 words)

  
 Archdiocese of Milwaukee - Education: Schools - St. Bruno
BRUNO PARISH SCHOOL IS A PART OF THE MINISTRIES OF ST. BRUNO PARISH SO THE PARISH MISSION STATEMENT IS PART OF THE SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT PARISH MISSION St.
Bruno Parish is a community of people sharing a common faith in the teaching of the Catholic Tradition.
SCHOOL MISSION The mission of St. Bruno Parish School is to provide a Catholic K-8 education fostering spiritual, academic, social, emotional, and physical development in an atmosphere committed to Catholic Virtues and Responsibilities rooted in Scripture.
www.archmil.org /education/ShowSchool.asp?ID=152   (419 words)

  
 Schreiter returns to joyful St. Bruno's congregation
During the 15 weeks the Rev. John Schreiter was suspended from his priestly duties at St. Bruno's Catholic Church in Dousman, members of several churches of different faiths met every Thursday to pray for his return.
During that time, they used the pastor's chalice that was given to him when he was ordained a priest in 1969 for their communion ceremony.
Among those joining in the celebration were representatives from the other area congregations that joined leaders of St. Bruno's each Thursday to pray for Schreiter.
www.gmtoday.com /news/local_stories/2004/August_04/08132004_03.asp   (1084 words)

  
 Bruno St - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
He was born in Cologne and studied in...
Bruno of Cologne, St, called Bruno the Great (925-965), churchman and scholar, brother of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.
Bruno belonged to a noble family of Saxony (Sachsen) and received his education...
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 St. Bruno - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
Bruno suffered the plundering of his house for his pains.
Bruno and his friends built an oratory with small individual cells at a distance from each other.
When the pope had to flee Rome, Bruno pulled up stakes again, and spent his last years (after refusing a bishopric) in the wilderness of Calabria.
www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1160   (471 words)

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