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Life.

Bruno came into the world in Cologne on the Rhine from respected parents around the year 1040, and received his first instruction in the sciences at the collegiate school of St. Cunibert, and also obtained a canonry there. He was still very young when he left his home city and moved to Reims. The collegiate school there was in great repute at this time, and Bruno earned such honor through his diligence that others were pointed to as his example. He pursued all the sciences, so that his contemporaries describe him as a learned philosopher and deep-thinking theologian. Hermann, who at that time presided over the school at Reims, withdrew from the world, and the Archbishop replaced his position with our Bruno. In his office, he trained a multitude of learned students, among whom many attained the highest dignities and even the Roman See, and threw a great luster back upon the fame of their teacher, so that he became an ornament of his century and the honor of two peoples: Germany, which had birthed him, and France, which had educated him. Bruno was then made chancellor of the church at Reims, and