Bruno

Saint Bruno
Memorial
· 6 October

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Our saint today was ordained in 1055. He taught theology in Paris. One of his students was later Pope Urban II; the Pope who ordered the first Crusade.

Bruno was very critical of the mismanagement of the church in France at the time. This made him a bunch of friends in the hierarchy. Apparently when one has a troublemaker, then and now, the best way to solve the problem is to give that person a job. Bruno was made Chancellor of Rhemis and put in charge of cleaning up the French church’s mess. He cleaned house and straightened stuff out.

Later on he helped found the Carthusian Order. The Carthusuians have very little contact with the outside world, they do not accept folks who want to go on retreats like the Trappists sometimes do. If anything ever happens to The Whip, I plan to join up. Through church history the Carthusians are one of the few religious orders that never had to be “Reformed” or cleaned up. The motto of the Carthusians is Stat crux dum volvitur orbis, Latin for "The Cross is steady while the world is turning."

Bruno is the patron of possessed people from a story about the burial of a Devout Priest named Raymond. A demon was waiting at the head of the bier to drag the priest’s soul to the infernal regions. The prayers of a young Bruno, who was officiating at the funeral, stopped this demon.

Because the Carthusians never want any public notice called on themselves Bruno was never formally canonized. On February 16th of 1623 Pope Gregory XV just started calling him Saint Bruno with no fanfare.

He is the namesake of the late WWWF champion Bruno Sammartino. Sammartino’s birthday is today. His devout Catholic parents from Abruzzi Italy named him for our saint. Bruno held the championship belt longer than anyone else; 4,040 days, eventually losing to the man of the hour, the man with the power, the dude that’s too sweet to be sour, Superstar Billy Graham April 30, 1977 in Baltimore. Superstar Billy Graham was an ordained Pentecostal minister…no joke. They are my number 1 and number 2 favorite professional wrestlers

Born· 1030 at Cologne, Germany

Died · 1101 at Torre, Calabria, Italy of natural causes,  buried in the church of Saint Stephen.

Patronage
· possessed people