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Bruno, St

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Bruno, St (c. 1030–1101)

German founder of the monastic Catholic Carthusian order. He was born in Cologne, became a priest, and controlled the cathedral school of Rheims from 1057 to 1076. Withdrawing to the mountains near Grenoble after an ecclesiastical controversy, he founded the monastery at Chartreuse in 1084. He was canonized in 1514. His feast day is 6 October.



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