Saint Bruno & Blessed Marie Rose Durocher
Lives of the Saints
by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. edition
[1894]
October 6.—ST. BRUNO.
BRUNO was born at Cologne, about 1030, of an illustrious family. He was endowed with rare natural gifts, which he cultivated with care at Paris. He became canon of Cologne, and then of Rheims, where he had the direction of theological studies. On the death of the bishop the see fell for a time into evil hands, and Bruno retired with a few friends into the country. There he resolved to forsake the world, and to live a life of retirement and penance. With six companions he applied to Hugh, Bishop of Grenoble, who led them into a wild solitude called the Chartreuse. There they lived in poverty, self-denial, and silence, each apart in his own cell, meeting only for the worship of God, and employing themselves in copying books. From the name of the spot the Order of St. Bruno was called the Carthusian. Six years later, Urban II. called Bruno to Rome, that he might avail himself of his guidance. Bruno tried to live there as he had lived in the desert; but the echoes of the great city disturbed his solitude, and, after refusing high dignities, he wrung from the Pope permission to resume his monastic life in Calabria. There he lived, in humility and mortification and great peace, till his blessed death in 1101.
Reflection.—”O everlasting kingdom,” said St. Augustine; “kingdom of endless ages, whereon rests the untroubled light and the peace of God which passeth all understanding, where the souls of the Saints are in rest, and everlasting joy is on their heads, and sorrow and sighing have fled away! When shall I come and appear before God?”
Saint Bruno, Priest; & Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin Gal 3:1-5/Lk 11:5-13 (464).
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/bruno-508
CATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. BRUNO
*Saint Bruno, founder of the Carthusian monastic order, kneels with his arms folded and his head and eyes downcast in front of an altar and crucifix praying to God. Artwork by E. Le Sueur.
**Bruno of Cologne (German: Bruno von Köln, Italian: Bruno di Colonia;c. 1030 – 6 October 1101) was the founder of the Carthusian Order, he personally founded the order’s first two communities. He was a celebrated teacher at Reims, and a close advisor of his former pupil, Pope Urban II. His feast day is October 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_of_Cologne
***Marie-Rose Durocher (6 October 1811 – 6 October 1849) was a Canadian Roman Catholic religious sister, who founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Rose_Durocher
Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.
Jn 17:25–26