BRUNO, Saint, the name of two saints of the Roman Catholic Church. (1) The apostle of Prussia: b. about 970; d. 1009. He entered the order of Saint Benedict and accompanied Saint Adalbert on his mission to Prussia. He was appointed chaplain to the Emperor, Henry II, and was a zealous missionary in. Poland, Russia and Hungary. Having been taken by the pagans of Lithuania, he had his hands and feet cut off, and was afterward beheaded. (2) The founder of the Carthusian order: b. Cologne about 1030; d. Della Torre, Calabria, 1101. He was educated in the school of the collegiate church of Saint Cunibert, in which he afterward received a cationship, and then studied at Rheims, where he so distinguished himself that Bishop Gervais appointed him to superintend all the schools of the district. He attracted many distinguished scholars, and among others Odo, afterward Pope Urban II. Subsequently he was offered the bishopric of Rheims, but the immorality of his times in duced him to go into iolitude. In 1084.or 1086
he• repaired with six friends of a like disposi tion to a narrow, bleak valley, called Chartreuse (now known as La Grande Chartreuse) about 15 miles from Grenoble, where they built an oratory and separate cells, keeping silence six days of the week and only seeing each other on Sundays, and founded one of the severest or ders of monks, named from their location Car thusians. In the meantime Urban II became Pope, and in 1089 invited his former instructor to his court. Bruno reluctantly obeyed, but refused every dignity, and in 1094 re ceived permission to found a second Carthusian establishment in the solitude of Della Torre, in Calabria, where he died. Leo X, by whom he was beatified, in 1514, permitted the Carthu sinus to celebrate a mass in honor of him; and Gregory XV, who ordered the process of his canonization, in 1623 extended it to the whole Roman Catholic Church.