Bruno's Name Day

6th October

Bruno, the name has a description or meaning which is from Old German; 'brown'

Bruno has a Name day of 6th October, please check our history page to find out how this was derived

This description represents the Male usage of the name.

St Bruno is a patron saint of the following:

Symbols are often associated with Saints, it often helped in the middle ages when people were unable to read thus Bruno has the following symbols associated

Historically Famous Brunos

St Bruno the Great, son of St Matilda, was archbishop of Cologne in 953. A rulerof considerable power in the absense of his brother the German Emperor Otto 1. It is St Bruno of Chartreuse (born in Cologne in 1030 and named after the Archbishop), however, who is much better known, for it was he who founded the great Cathusian monastery of La Grande Chartreuse. Bruno and six others lived much like the first Desert Fathers, in solitude and great poverty. Loike his namesake, however, St Bruno was also called to public life - in this case as papal adviser to Urban II - and he was never allowed to return to his monastery. He died in 1101 in another monastery he founded called La Torre, in Calabria, Italy