Bruno Cologne

Bruno was educated at the famous Reims School, about 1055 he was ordained a priest, after which he became a canon in Cologne . He strongly supported the Gregorian reform in the Catholic Church, fought against the Reims Archbishop, who rejected the reform and achieved its deposition.

In 1075 he retired to the monastery of Ses-Fontaine . In 1084 , in the Alps , near Grenoble, he founded his own monastery - the Great Chartresa , which became the cradle of the Order of the Cartesians . In 1091 , Bruno was invited to Rome as an adviser to Pope Urban II , but for a long time he could not be outside the monastery walls and a year later left Rome and retired to the southern Italian monastery of St. Stefan , where he was until his death. Canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1623. Memory of St. Bruno of Cologne in the Catholic Church - October 6 .

Only a few works of St. Bruno, the most important of which are the Interpretation of the Psalms (Expositio in psalmos) and the Interpretation of the Epistles of the Apostle Paul (Expositio in epistolas Pauli).

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• Biography of St. Bruno
• Biography on the theological portal of the Theologian. RU