Bruno of Cologne
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Bruno of Cologne, venerated as Saint Bruno, was the founder of the Carthusians. He personally founded the order's first two communities. He was a celebrated teacher at Reims and a close advisor of his
Saint Bruno of Cologne, by Nicolas Mignard
Saint Bruno refuses the archbishopric of Reggio di Calabria, by Vincenzo Carducci, Chartreuse of el Paular.
Bruno of Cologne
Notre Dame de Casalibus, Dauphiné
Grande Chartreuse
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Grande Chartreuse is the head monastery of the Carthusian religious order. It is located in the Chartreuse Mountains, north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, Franc
Bruno of Cologne
…Bishop of Grenoble. The bishop installed them in 1084 in a mountainous and uninhabited spot in the lower Alps of the Dauphiné, in a place named Chartreuse, not far from Grenoble. They built an oratory with small individual cells at a distance from each other where they lived isolated and in poverty…
Grande Chartreuse
The monks being forced out of the monastery in April 1903
Grande Chartreuse is situated in a remote mountain valley.