canonized_by death_date death_place canonized_date birth_place feast_day imagesize venerated_in patronage birth_date titles image article_title name
lucius iii 18 july 1123 segni , italy 5 september 1181 solero -lrb- near alessandria -rrb- in lombardy 18 july 220px roman catholicism segni , italy c. 1047 bishop of segni saint bruno , bishop of segni.jpg bruno -lrb- bishop of segni -rrb-
 saint bruno of segni
bruno -lrb- bishop of segni -rrb-

saint bruno -lrb- c. 1047 -- july 18 , 1123 -rrb- , bishop of segni and abbot of montecassino , is an italian catholic saint .
born at solero -lrb- in today 's province of alessandria , piedmont -rrb- between 1045 and 1049 , he was educated in a monastery near his birthplace and at bologna , became a canon at siena , and came to rome in 1079 .
he was appointed bishop of segni in the campagna the same year .
he was even more closely connected with urban ii , whom he accompanied to france in 1095 .
in 1099 , he entered the monastery of monte cassino , but without resigning his see or severing his relations with the outside world .
he undertook an important mission to france for paschal ii in 1106 , and remained with the pope for some time after his return , finally going back to his cloister , where he was elected abbot in 1107 .
paschal made no objection to this pluralism until in the conflicts of 1111 bruno took the part of the antipope maginulf -lrb- sylvester iv -rrb- , and was forced to resign his abbacy and return to segni .
lucius iii canonized him in 1181 .
his works are principally exegetical .
his `` libellus de symoniacis '' , written before 1109 , is important for its discussion of the meaning of simony , and especially for its attitude on the sacraments of a simoniacal priest .
he died at segni on july 18 , 1123 .
