Subj : July 18th - St. Bruno, Bishop of Segni To : All From : rich Date : Wed Jul 17 2019 08:56:41 From: rich July 18th - St. Bruno, Bishop of Segni Died 1123 St. Bruno was of the family of the lords of Asti in Piedmont, and born near that city.=C2 He made his studies in the university of Bologna, and was made a canon of Siena.=C2 He was called to Rome and there, in the council of 1079, he defended the doctrine of the Church concerning the Blessed Sacrament against Berengarius of Tours; Pope Gregory VII nominated him bishop of Segni in the following year, Bruno's humbleness prompting him to refuse a cardinalate. Bruno served his flock with unwearied zeal; he was a personal friend of St Gregory and entered with fearless enthusiasm into all his projects for the reform of the Church, suffering imprisonment for three months at the hands of Count Ainulf, a partisan of the Emperor Henry IV.=C2 He went with Bl. Urban II into France in 1095, and assisted at the Council of Clermont-Ferrand, and returning into Italy he continued to labour for the sanctification of his flock till, not being able any longer to resist his inclination for solitude and retirement, and still persecuted by Ainulf, he withdrew to Monte Cassino and received the monastic habit. The people of Segni demanded him back; but the abbot of Monte Cassino prevailed upon the pope to allow his retreat, but not the resignation of his see. In 1107 he was elected abbot of the monastery. Bruno by his writings laboured to support ecclesiastical discipline and to extirpate simony. This abuse, together with that of lay investiture (Lay investiture was the appointment of bishops, abbots, and other church officials by feudal lords and vassals) to ecclesiastical offices, he looked upon as a main source of the disorders which saddened zealous pastors in the church, by filling the sanctuary with hirelings and by corrupting with avarice and ambition those in whom, above all others, a perfect freedom from earthly things ought to Lay a foundation of the gospel temper and spirit. He indeed took it upon himself to rebuke Pope Paschal II, who had been persuaded by the emperor elect, Henry V, to make concessions in the matter of ecclesiastical privileges and investiture in Germany. The pope retorted by ordering Bruno to resign his abbacy and return to his bishopric, and was at once obeyed. He continued faithfully in the discharge of his duties and in writing, especially commentaries on the Holy Scriptures, until his death in 1123.=C2 He was the greatest scriptural commentator of his age, but in theology he maintained the extreme and erroneous view that the sacraments administered by bishops or priests who had been guilty of simony were invalid.=C2 Bruno was canonized in 1183. There are two lives of Bruno printed in the Acta Sanctorum, July, vol. iv, the shorter and earlier being the work of that historically unscrupulous writer Peter the Deacon=C2 but the main facts given above may be trusted.=C2 See B. Gigalski, Bruno Bischof von Segni (1898). Bruno is noticed in both DTC and DHG . Saint Quote: The remembrance of the most holy Passion of Jesus Christ is the door through which the soul enters into intimate union with God, interior recollection and most sublime contemplation... --St. Paul of the Cross Bible Quote: 11 Let him decline from evil, and do good: let him seek after peace and pursue it: 12 Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers: but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things. (1 Peter 3:11-12) DRB <><><><> A prayer to angels before undertaking a journey: In the way of peace direct us, O Lord. We praise and venerate All the heavenly princes, But especially Raphael, Faithful physician And companion true, Who with Heaven's power Bindeth fast the demon. V. God hath given His Angels charge over thee. R. To keep thee in all thy ways. Let us pray: --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .