St Bruno is revered as the Founder of the Carthusian Order in the 11th century. While the model for the men and women whom God calls to the Carthusian ideal, al

Bruno of Cologne, also known as Bruno von Köln was the founder of the Carthusian Order in the 11th century. He personally founded the order's first two communi

In 1600, the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno for heresy, and he was then burned alive in the Campo de’ Fiori in

A collection of key texts from early Carthusian writing in the IIth and 12th Centuries. St Bruno: Letter to his Carthusian sons at the Chartreuse, The Letter to