October 6 Bl. Marie-Rose Durocher & Saint Bruno.
The Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, S.N.J.M., (October 6, 1811 – October 6, 1849) was a Canadian Roman Catholic Religious Sister, who founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1982. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Rose_Durocher
Founder of the Order of the Chartreuse
or Carthusian Order
(1030-1101) Saint Bruno was born in Cologne in about the year 1030, of an illustrious family. He was endowed with rare natural gifts, which soon shone with outstanding brilliance in Paris, though he was studying among other gifted young men. Ordained at Cologne, his native city, he became a Canon of its cathedral, and then was a Canon at Rheims, where the direction of studies in theology was entrusted to him. He already had a very strong distaste for honors, and a great desire for the life of contemplation.
On the death of the excellent Gervais, Archbishop of Rheims, the region fell for a time …More