This document provides a biography of Saint Bruno, founder of the Carthusian monastic order. It describes that he was born in Cologne, Germany in 1030 and studied at the cathedral school. He later taught at the cathedral school in Reims, France and became known for his holiness. In 1084, Bruno led a group of followers to establish the Grande Chartreuse monastery in a remote area of the French Alps, founding the Carthusian order known for its eremitical lifestyle. The order spread across Europe over the centuries. Bruno died in 1101 and was renowned for his piety, prayer, and mortification. He is the patron saint of Calabria, Italy where another monastery he

1. SAINT BRUNO,
FOUNDER OF THE
CARTHUSIANS

2. He was born at Cologne about the year 1030;

3. From the
family of
Hartenfaust
or Hardebüst

4. He studied
at the city
college, or
collegial of
St. Cunibert.

5. he went to
complete his
education
at Reims,
attracted by
the reputation
of the episcopal
school and of
its director,
Heriman

6. he finished his
classical studies
and perfected
himself in the
sacred sciences
which at that
time consisted
principally of
the study of
Holy Scripture
and of the
Fathers

7. St. Bruno returned to Cologne, where he was
provided with a canonry at St. Cunibert's

8. In 1056
Bishop
Gervais
recalled him
to Reims, to
aid his former
master
Heriman in
the direction
of the school

9. in 1057, St. Bruno found himself head of the episcopal school,
or écolâtre, a post difficult as it was elevated, for it then
included the direction of the public schools and the oversight
of all the educational establishments of the diocese.

10. For about twenty years, from 1057 to 1075, he maintained the prestige
which the school of Reims has attained under its former masters, Remi
of Auxerre, Hucbald of St. Amand, Gerbert, and lastly Heriman.

11. amongst his students there was Eudes of Châtillon, afterwards
Urban II, Rangier, Cardinal and Bishop of Reggio, Robert, Bishop
of Langres, and a large number of prelates and abbots

12. In 1075 St. Bruno
was appointed
chancellor of the
church of Reims,
and had then
to give himself
especially to the
administration
of the diocese

13. He wanted to place
himself and his
companions under the
direction of an eminent
solitary, St. Robert,
who had recently
(1075) settled at
Molesme in the Diocese
of Langres, together
with a band of other
hermits who were
later on (1098) to form
the Cistercian Order

14. after a short sojourn
at Sèche-Fontaine
near Molesme, he
left two of his
companions, Peter
and Lambert, and
betook himself with
six others to Hugh
of Châteauneuf,
Bishop of Grenoble

16. He led and installed them (1084) in a wild spot on the Alps of Dauphiné
named Chartreuse, about four leagues from Grenoble, in the midst of
precipitous rocks and mountains almost always covered with snow

19. With St. Bruno were Landuin, the two Stephens of Bourg and
Die, canons of Sts. Rufus, and Hugh the Chaplain, "all, the
most learned men of their time", and two laymen, Andrew
and Guérin, who afterwards became the first lay brothers

20. They built a little monastery where they lived in deep retreat and poverty,
entirely occupied in prayer and study, and frequently honoured by the
visits of St. Hugh who became like one of themselves. Their manner
of life has been recorded by a contemporary, Guibert of Nogent

23. The monks became famous also for a
green liquor they called Chatreuse

24. The reform of the clergy, was
inaugurated at the Council of Melfi
(1089). Bruno took care always to keep
himself in the background, and although
he seems to have assisted at the Council
of Benevento (March, 1091), we find no
evidence of his having been present at
the Councils of Troja (March, 1093),
of Piacenza (March, 1095),
or of Clermont (November, 1095

26. another pupil of St. Bruno, Eudes of Châtillon, had
become pope under the name of Urban II (1088).
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

27. The pope Urban had been obliged to abandon Rome before
the victorious forces of the emperor and the antipope.
He withdrew with all his court to the south of Italy

28. The clergy at Reggio wanted to
elect Bruno as bishop, but he
directed their attention to Rangier,
one of his former pupils, who was
fortunately near by at the
Benedictine Abbey of La Cava near Salerno

29. Saint Bruno refuses the offer of Bishopric

30. He remained in the Diocese
of Squillace, in a high
valley three miles long and
two in width, covered with
forest. Roger, Great Count
of Sicily and Calabria and
uncle of the Duke of
Apulia visited them.

31. St. Bruno went to
Mileto to take part in
the joys and sorrows
of the noble family, to
visit the count when
sick (1098 and 1101),
and to baptize his son
Roger (1097), the
future King of Sicily
the monastery of St.
Stephen was built,
in 1095, near the
hermitage of St. Mary

32. Saint
Bruno’s
profession
of the
Catholic
Faith

33. He affirms
with special
emphasis his
faith in the
mystery of the
Holy Trinity,
and in the real
presence of Our
Saviour in the
Holy Eucharist

34. a protestation
against the two
heresies which
had troubled
that century,
the tritheism of
Roscelin, and
the impanation
of Berengarius

35. He had a
great spirit
of prayer,
and extreme
mortification,

37. and
a filial
devotion
to the
Blessed
Virgin

38. Our Lady of
Casalibus in
Dauphiné,
Our Lady
Della Torre
in Calabria;

39. Our Lady della Torre in Calabria

41. He died 6 October, 1101

42. St. Bruno was buried in the little cemetery
of the hermitage of St. Mary, and many
miracles were worked at his tomb

43. A rolliger passed through Italy, France,
Germany, and England announcing his death,
and receiving pledges of prayers for his soul

44. His cult, authorized for the Carthusian Order by Leo X in
1514, was extended to the whole church by Gregory XV,
17 February, 1623, as a semi-double feast, and elevated
to the class of doubles by Clement X, 14 March, 1674

45. St. 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

46. An immense number of medals are struck in his honour and distributed
to the crowd, and the little Carthusian habits, which so many children
of the neighbourhood wear, are blessed. He is especially invoked,
and successfully, for the deliverance of those possessed

47. He composed
commentaries on the
Psalms and on the
Epistles of St. Paul

48. Two letters of his
still remain, also
his profession of
faith, and a
short elegy on
contempt for
the world which
shows that he
practised poetry

49. he knew a little Hebrew and Greek and used it to explain,
or if need be, rectify the Vulgate , - he was familiar with the
Fathers, especially St. Augustine and St. Ambrose

50. St. 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. He wrote no rule,
but he left behind him two
institutions which had
little connection with each
other--that of Dauphiné
and that of Calabria.

51. The foundation of Calabria, somewhat like the Camaldolese, comprised two
classes of religious: hermits, who had the direction of the order, and cenobites
who did not feel called to the solitary life; it only lasted a century, did not rise to
more than five houses, and finally, in 1191, united with the Cistercian Order.

52. The foundation of Grenoble, more like the rule of St. Benedict, comprised
only one kind of religious, subject to a uniform discipline, and the greater
part of whose life was spent in solitude, without, however, the complete
exclusion of the conventual life. This life spread throughout Europe,
numbered 250 monasteries, and in spite of many trials continues to this day

53. statue by Houdon,
at St. Mary of the
Angels in Rome

54. Saint Bruno
by Zurbaran,
in the Seville
museum

55. the Apparition
of the Blessed
Virgin to St.
Bruno, by
Guercino at
Bologna

56. pictures forming the
gallery of St. Bruno
in the museum of the
Louvre, "a masterpiece
of Le Sueur

57. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Revised 20-9-2022
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
All Souls Day
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – In the Light of the Word
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – The Experiences and Challenges of Families
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 - Looking to Jesus, the Vocation of the Family
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - Love in Marriage
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Love made Fruitfuol
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Some Pastoral Perspectives
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Towards a better education of children
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Accompanying, discerning and integrating weaknwss
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – The Spirituality of Marriage and the Family
Beloved Amazon 1ª – A Social Dream
Beloved Amazon 2 - A Cultural Dream
Beloved Amazon 3 – An Ecological Dream
Beloved Amazon 4 - An Ecclesiastical Dream
Carnival
Conscience
Christ is Alive
Fatima, History of the Apparitiions
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Freedom
Grace and Justification
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Human Community
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Kingdom of Christ
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Life in Christ
Love and Marriage 12,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Lumen Fidei – ch 1,2,3,4
Mary – Doctrine and dogmas
Mary in the bible
Martyrs of Korea
Martyrs of North America and Canada
Medjugore Santuario Mariano
Merit and Holiness
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Moral Law
Morality of Human Acts
Passions
Pope Franciss in Thailand
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Francis in Hungary, Slovaquia
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Passions
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr
Saint Albert the Great
Saint Anthony of Padua
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Saint James, apostle
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint Joseph
Saint Maria Goretti
Saint Mary Magdalen
Saint Mark, evangelist
Saint Martha, Mary and Lazarus
Saint Martin of Tours
Sain Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta
Saints Nazario and Celso
Saint John Chrysostom
Saint Jean Baptiste MarieaVianney, Curé of Ars
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint John of the Cross
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcuta
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Saing Peter Claver
Saint Robert Bellarmine
Saints Zachary and Elizabeth, parents of John Baptis
Signs of hope
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
The Chursh, Mother and Teacher
Valentine
Vocation to Beatitude
Virgin of Guadalupe – Apparitions
Virgin of the Pillar and Hispaniic feast day
Virgin of Sheshan, China
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WMoFamilies Rome 2022 – festval of families
Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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58. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Revisado 27-6-2022
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – A la luz de la Palabre
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – Realidad y Desafíos de las Familias
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 La mirada puesta en Jesús: Vocación de la Familia
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - El Amor en el Matrimonio
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Amor que se vuelve fecundo
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Algunas Perspectivas Pastorales
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Fortalecer la educacion de los hijos
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Acompañar, discernir e integrar la fragilidad
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – Espiritualidad Matrimonial y Familiar
Carnaval
Conciencia
Cristo Vive
Dia de todos los difuntos
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucarisía)
Encuentro Mundial de Familias Roma 2022 – festival de las familias
Espíritu Santo
Fatima – Historia de las apariciones
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
La Iglesia, Madre y Maestra
La Comunidad Humana
La Vida en Cristo
Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Ley Moral
Libertad
Lumen Fidei – cap 1,2,3,4
María y la Biblia
Martires de Corea
Martires de Nor America y Canada
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Moralidad de actos humanos
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la Jornada Mundial Juventud 2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Papa Francisco en Hugaría e Eslovaquia
Queridas Amazoznia 1,2,3,4
El Reino de Cristo
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1, 2, 3
Santa Agata, virgen y martir
San Alberto Magno
San Antonio de Padua
San Francisco de Asis 1,2,3,4
San Francisco de Sales
Santa Maria Goretti
Santa María Magdalena
San Marco, evangelista
San Ignacio de Loyola
San José, obrero, marido, padre
San Juan Ma Vianney, Curé de’Ars
San Juan Crisostom
San Juan de la Cruz
San Juan N. Neumann, obispo de Philadelphia
San Mateo, Apóstol y Evangelista
San Martin de Tours
San Mateo, Apostol y Evangelista
San Maximiliano Kolbe
Santa Teresa de Calcuta
Santos Marta, Maria, y Lazaro
San Nazario e Celso
San Padre Pio de Pietralcina
San Patricio e Irlanda
San Pedro Claver
San Roberto Belarmino
Santiago Apóstol
Santos Zacarias e Isabel, padres de Juan Bautista
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
Vida en Cristo
Virgen de Guadalupe, Mexico
Virgen de Pilar – fiesta de la hispanidad
Virgen de Sheshan, China
Virtud
Vocación a la bienaventuranza
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Vocación a evangelizar
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