vu/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-bruno.yml

# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Bruno, Confessor (Oct 6). Sourced
# directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/10-06.txt,
# English/Sancti/10-06.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C5`) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
id: st-bruno
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Bruno, Carthusianæ religiónis institutor, Coloniæ Agrippinæ
        natus est. Ab ipsis incunabulis specimen futuræ sanctitátis
        præferens, morum gravitáte, puerília illíus ætátis, divina
        favénte grátia, declinans, adeo excelluit, ut jam inde monachórum
        pater vitæque anachoreticæ futurus instaurátor agnoscerétur. A
        paréntibus, genere ac virtúte claris, Lutétiam Parisiórum missus,
        tantum ibi in philosophíæ ac theologíæ stúdiis profecit, ut
        doctoris ac magistri munus in utraque facultate sit adeptus; nec
        multo post, ob egregias ipsíus virtútes, ecclésiæ Rheménsis
        canonicatu potítus.


        Elapsis aliquot annis, cum sex aliis familiaribus mundo
        renuntians, sanctum Hugónem episcopum Gratianopolitánum adiit.
        Qui, causa eórum adventus cógnita, eosdemque intélligens esse
        quos eadem nocte véluti septem stellas ad suos pedes corruéntes
        in somnis viderat, montes suæ diœcesis asperrimos, quos
        Carthusiános appellant, illis concessit. Illuc Bruno cum sociis,
        ipso Hugone comitante, secédens, cum per aliquot annos
        eremiticam vitam egísset, ab Urbano secundo, qui ejusdem
        Brunónis discipulus fuerat, Romam accersitur. Ejus consílio ac
        doctrina Pontifex in tot illis Ecclésiæ calamitátibus, per
        aliquot annos usus est; donec Bruno, recusato Rhegiénsi
        archiepiscopatu, discedéndi facultátem obtinuit.


        Igitur, solitúdinis amóre, eremum quamdam apud Squillácum in
        Calabriæ fínibus pétiit. Quo in loco, cum ipsum orántem Rogerius
        comes Calabriæ inter venándum, latrántibus ad illíus spelúncam
        cánibus, reperísset, sanctitáte viri permotus, illum ac socios
        fovére et cólere impense cœpit. Nec liberalitas sine præmio
        fuit; cum enim idem Rogerius Capuam obsidéret, eumque Sergius
        quidam excubiárum magister pródere statuísset, Bruno, adhuc in
        dicta erémo vivens, in somnis illi ómnia apériens, ab imminénti
        periculo cómitem liberávit. Tandem virtútibus ac meritis plenus,
        nec sanctitáte minus quam doctrinæ fama clarus, obdormívit in
        Dómino; sepultúsque est in monasterio sancti Stephani, ab ipso
        Rogerio constructo, ubi háctenus honorifice cólitur.
      en: >-
        Bruno, the Founder of the Charterhouse Monks, was born at
        Cologne. From his earliest years he was a very grave child,
        turning away from childish things, and that so manifestly, that
        by the grace of God the tokens of holiness already pointed him
        out as a Father of monks, and a restorer of the life of
        hermits. His parents, who were eminent for rank and goodness,
        sent him to Paris, where he studied so well in Philosophy and
        Theology, that he took the degree of Doctor in both faculties;
        and a short while after, for his famous graces, he was made a
        Canon of Rheims.


        After some years, he, and six comrades, forsook the world and
        betook themselves to Hew, the holy Bishop of Grenoble, who, when
        he learned the reason of their coming, and believing them to
        have been figured by seven stars which he had seen that night
        in a dream falling at his feet, gave them a grant of land in
        some very wild mountains in his Dioecese, which are called the
        Chartreuses. Thither Bruno and his companions, together with
        Hew, withdrew themselves, and led for some years the life of
        hermits. Pope Urban II., who had formerly been his disciple,
        commanded him to come to Rome, and amid the afflictions which
        then scourged the Church, held him for some time as his
        counsellor. But at last Bruno, who had refused the Archbishopric
        of Reggio, got his leave to go away.


        In his love of the wilderness, he betook himself to a certain
        desert place in the Diocese of Squillaci, in the uttermost
        coasts of Calabria. He was praying there one day in a cave,
        when the hounds of Roger, Sovereign Earl of Sicily and
        Calabria, who was out a-hunting, came and bayed at the door of
        it. Thus was he found by this Prince, who was moved by his
        holiness, and began to cherish him and his comrades, and treat
        them very kindly. The Earl's goodness was rewarded, for when he
        was one time laying siege to Capua, and one Sergius, who was
        first groom of his bedchamber, had made a plot to betray him,
        Bruno, who was still living in the desert above mentioned,
        appeared to him in a dream, and delivered him from the danger
        which was hanging over him. At length Bruno, full of graces and
        good works, and famous for godliness not less than for
        learning, fell asleep in the Lord, and was buried in the
        monastery of St. Stephen, founded by the same Earl Roger, where
        he is still held in great honour.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }