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SUMMARY:Saint Bruno
DESCRIPTION:Image: Saint Bruno | Girolamo Marchesi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Bruno\nSaint of the Day for October 6\n(c. 1030 – October 6\, 1101)\nClick to hear audio clip ► \nSaint Bruno’s Story\nThis saint has the honor of having founded a religious order which\, as the saying goes\, has never had to be reformed because it was never deformed. No doubt both the founder and the members would reject such high praise\, but it is an indication of the saint’s intense love of a penitential life in solitude. \nBruno was born in Cologne\, Germany\, became a famous teacher at Rheims\, and was appointed chancellor of the archdiocese at the age of 45. He supported Pope Gregory VII in his fight against the decadence of the clergy\, and took part in the removal of his own scandalous archbishop\, Manasses. Bruno suffered the plundering of his house for his pains. \nHe had a dream of living in solitude and prayer\, and persuaded a few friends to join him in a hermitage. After a while he felt the place unsuitable and\, through a friend\, was given some land which was to become famous for his foundation “in the Chartreuse” (from which comes the word Carthusians). The climate\, desert\, mountainous terrain\, and inaccessibility guaranteed silence\, poverty\, and small numbers. \nBruno and his friends built an oratory with small individual cells at a distance from each other. They met for Matins and Vespers each day and spent the rest of the time in solitude\, eating together only on great feasts. Their chief work was copying manuscripts. \nThe pope\, hearing of Bruno’s holiness\, called for his assistance in Rome. 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. \nBruno was never formally canonized\, because the Carthusians were averse to all occasions of publicity. However\, Pope Clement X extended his feast to the whole Church in 1674. \n\nReflection\nIf there is always a certain uneasy questioning of the contemplative life\, there is an even greater puzzlement about the extremely penitential combination of community and hermit life lived by the Carthusians.
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