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Archibald ("Brother Bruno") Fleming

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• In April 1731 Archibald ("Brother Bruno") Fleming was occupied as joined the Carthusian order of monks at Newport in England as Brother Bruno at England in Newport. Wiki -
  The Carthusians, also known as the Order of Carthusians (Latin: Ordo Cartusiensis), are a Latin enclosed religious order of the Catholic Church. The order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns. The order has its own rule, called the Statutes, and their life combines both eremitical and cenobitic monasticism. The motto of the Carthusians is Stat crux dum volvitur orbis, Latin for "The Cross is steady while the world turns."[2] The Carthusians retain a unique form of liturgy known as the Carthusian Rite.
  The name Carthusian is derived from the Chartreuse Mountains in the French Prealps: Bruno built his first hermitage in a valley of these mountains. These names were adapted to the English charterhouse, meaning a Carthusian monastery.[a] Today, there are 23 charterhouses, 18 for monks and 5 for nuns. The alcoholic cordial Chartreuse has been produced by the monks of Grande Chartreuse since 1737, which gave rise to the name of the color, though the liqueur is in fact produced not only as green chartreuse, but also as yellow chartreuse.
  The monastery is generally a small community of hermits based on the model of the 4th-century Lauras of Palestine. A Carthusian monastery consists of a number of individual cells built around a cloister. The individual cells are organised so that the door of each cell comes off a large corridor.
  The focus of Carthusian life is contemplation. To this end, there is an emphasis on solitude and silence.[10] Carthusians do not have abbots—instead, each charterhouse is headed by a prior and is populated by two types of monks: the choir monks, referred to as hermits, and the lay brothers. This reflects a division of labor in providing for the material needs of the monastery and the monks. For the most part, the number of brothers in the Order has remained the same for centuries, as it is now: seven or eight brothers for every ten fathers.[11] Humility is a characteristic of Carthusian spirituality. The Carthusian identity is one of shared solitude.[12]
  Each hermit, a monk who is or who will be a priest, has his own living space, called a cell, usually consisting of a small dwelling. There have always been lay brothers in the charterhouse. When Bruno retired to the Chartreuse, two of his companions were secular ones: Andrew and Guerin. They also live a life of solitary prayer and join in the communal prayer and Mass in the chapel. However, the lay brothers are monks under a slightly different type of vows and spend less time in contemplative prayer and more time in manual labour. The lay brothers provide material assistance to the choir monks: cooking meals, doing laundry, undertaking physical repairs, providing the choir monks with books from the library and managing supplies. The life of the brothers complements that of the choir monks and makes the fathers' lives of seclusion possible.[12]²

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1. [S27] Various genealogists, Various genealogists, "World Family Tree," pedigree, MyHeritage Ltd, Geni (https://www.geni.com/: accessed ), ., Sir Archibald Fleming of Ferme d 1714
2. [S97] William Forbes-Leith, Records of the Scots Colleges, vol i, p 74
3. [S96] George E Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, vol iii, p 331-333

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15 April 2025