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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Bruno
DESCRIPTION:ST BRUNO \nFOUNDER OF THE CARTHUSIANS \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints \n◊◊◊ \nBruno came of a good family and was born at Cologne about the year \n1020. While still young he left home to finish his education at the cathedral \nschool of Rheims… In 1056 he was invited to return to his school as professor of \ngrammar and theology. He taught in the school of Rheims for eighteen years… \nHowever Bruno had decided to abandon the active…life precisely at a \ntime when the church of Rheims was ready to choose him as archbishop. \nHe…renounced whatever held him in the world\, and persuaded some of his \nfriends to accompany him into solitude. They first put themselves under the \ndirection of St Robert\, abbot of Molesmes (who afterwards founded Citeaux)\, \nand lived in a hermitage at Seche-Fontaine near by. In this solitude Bruno and \nhis companions deliberated what it was best for them to do. He decided to apply \nto St Hugh\, bishop of Grenoble… \nSt Bruno and his six companions arrived at Grenoble about midsummer \nin 1084\, and begged from St Hugh some place where they might serve God\, \nremote from worldly affairs… Hugh…assigned them to the desert of Chartreuse\, \npromising his utmost assistance to establish them there. Bruno and his \ncompanions immediately built an oratory there\, and small cells at a little \ndistance from the other\, like the ancient lauras of Palestine. Such was the origin \nof the order of the Carthusians\, which took its name from this desert of \nChartreuse… \nSt Hugh became so great an admirer of Bruno that he took him for his \nspiritual father and often went from Grenoble to the Chartreuse to enjoy his \nconversation and improve himself by his advice and example. But his fame went \nbeyond Grenoble and reached the ears of Eudes de Chatillon\, his former pupil \nand now Pope Urban II… The Pope sent him an order to come to Rome that he \nmight assist him by his counsels in the governance of the Church. Bruno could \nscarcely have met with a more severe trial of his obedience or made a greater \nsacrifice. Nevertheless he set out in 1090… \nBruno…had permission to occupy a hermitage among the ruins of the \nbaths of Diocletian\, where he would be close at hand when required by the pope. \nSoon Pope Urban pressed him to accept the archbishopric of Reggio in Calabria\, \nbut Bruno excused himself with great earnestness\, and redoubled his requests \nto live in solitude. Urban consented at length that he might retire to a wilderness \nin Calabria where he would be at hand… \nIn 1099 Landuin\, whom Bruno had appointed as Prior of the Chartreuse\, \nwent to Calabria to consult Bruno about the form of living which he had \ninstituted\, for the monks were desirous not to depart from the spirit and rule of \ntheir master. Bruno wrote them a letter full of tender charity and the spirit of \nGod. In it he instructed them in all practices of solitary life\, solved the \ndifficulties which they proposed to him\, comforted them in their troubles\, and \nencouraged them in perseverance. \nHis last sickness came upon him towards the end of September 1101… He \nresigned his soul to God on Sunday\, October 6\, 1101. St Bruno has never been \nformally canonized\, the Carthusians being averse to all occasions of publicity. \nBut in 1514 they obtained permission from Pope Leo X to keep his feast\, and in \n1674 Clement X extended it to the whole western Church.
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