BRUNO OF CARINTHIA, Saint. - Bishop of Würzburg, b. toward the end of the 10th century, son of Duke Conrad of Carinthia, he came down into Italy with the emperor Conrad II and held, for Italy, the office of chancellor from 1027 to 1034. From that year until his death he was bishop of Würzburg, displaying a very extensive activity in the religious field and attending with particular fervor to the moral and cultural level of the clergy. His zeal reached well beyond the diocese, so that, through the activity he displayed in the ecclesiastical organization of Prussia, he earned the name of apostle of that region. He died on 27 May 1045, while accompanying Henry III on an expedition into Hungary. He was buried in the crypt of his cathedral at Würzburg. Canonized, as it seems, by Innocent III, his feast falls on 17 May. He left a commentary on the Psalms and other writings of a catechetical nature.

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BIBL.: Works: PL 142, 39-568; Acta SS. Maii, IV, Antwerp 1685, pp. 38-40 and VII, ibid. 1688, p. 802; H. Breslau, Jahrbücher der deutschen Gesch. unter Konrad II., Leipzig 1879, p. 84 ff.; J. Baier, Der hl. B. von Würzburg als Katechet, Würzburg 1893; J. Kempf, Zur Kulturgesch. Frankenes während der sächsischen und salischen Kaiser, Prague 1915; M. Manitius, II, pp. 71-74; Martyr. Romanum, p. 194.

Pier Fausto Palumbo

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Bruno of Carinthia, Saint

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