Bruno from Segni

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Bruno von Segni (also Bruno von Aste , * between 1045 and 1049 in Solero near Asti ; † 1123 in Segni , Italy ) was a clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Church and bishop of Segni .

Bruno was educated in the Benedictine monastery of San Perpetuo near Asti and went to Bologna to study Artes liberales . Between 1070 and 1080 he was a canon in Siena . He was a supporter of the reformer party around Gregory VII. At the Lateran Synod of 1079, he is said to have stood against Berengar of Tours and his doctrine of the Eucharist .

In 1079 he was elected Bishop of Segni, probably at the instigation of the Pope, the first reliable evidence of this office goes back to the Roman Synod in May 1082. It is unclear whether Segni was a cardinal bishopric at the time or whether Bruno owed his appointment as cardinal to the personal esteem of the Pope. Bruno held the office of bishop until his death. As a tireless zealot for the papal cause, in the summer of 1081 or 1082 he was for a time a prisoner of the Count von Segni, a partisan of Emperor Henry IV. In 1088 he was a member of the papal electoral college that raised the French Urban II to pope. In his pontificate Bruno put his under Viktor III. assumed office of Chancellor of the Roman Church, but remained one of the closest papal collaborators and accompanied Urban on his travels, including at the Council of Clermont (1095).

His retreat as a monk to Montecassino for health reasons in 1102 and his election as abbot in 1107 were only accepted by Urban's successor Paschal II on the condition that he continued to administer his diocese and for forty days a year to serve the Roman Curia would be available. In 1106 he was sent to France as a legate of the Holy See and companion of Prince Bohemond of Antioch to promote a new crusade project; after being elected abbot in November 1107, he probably stayed again as papal legate in Lodi in the years up to 1111 .

Bruno's petitions against the Treaty of Ponte Mammolo of 1111, which he called the Pravilegium (" contract of shame") , in which he criticized the concessions of the Pope to Emperor Henry V with sharp polemics and accused the Pope of heretical deviations from the doctrine in order to make him withdraw the agreement Forcing Paschalis was an opportunity to forbid Bruno his dual function in the hierarchy and to limit him to the office of bishop. Nevertheless, the public criticism of the agreement that had been pressed from the Pope remained effective, because a year later it was rejected by a council and the Pope no longer felt bound by it. However, the intransigent attitude of Bruno and other Roman clerics and the journalistic campaign against him hindered Paschalis in his efforts to achieve an agreement with the emperor in the medium term, even against resistance within the church.

One of Bruno's lasting achievements is the division into chapters and the exegetical commentaries on the St. John Apocalypse .

He was founded in 1181 or 1183 by Pope Lucius III. canonized. His feast day is celebrated on July 18th.

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  1. The dates of death are July 3rd, July 18th or August 31st.