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Infobox saint|name= Saint Odo of Cluny|birth_date= ca. 878|death_date=November 18, 942|feast_day= November 18|venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church |image=|imagesize= 250px|caption=|birth_place= Le Mans, France|death_place=|titles=|canonized_date=|canonized_place=|canonized_by=|attributes=|patronage=for rain|major_shrine=|suppressed_date=|issues= Saint Odo of Cluny (French: Odon ) (c. 878 – 18 November 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church , was the second abbot of Cluny . He enacted various reforms in the Cluniac monastery system of France and Italy .
He was the son of a feudal lord of Deols, near Le Mans , and received his early education at the court of William I of Aquitaine|William the Pious, duke of Aquitaine . After entering as a cleric to the monastery of St.Martin of Tours, he studied at Paris under Remigius of Auxerre . About 909, he became a monk, priest, and then superior of the abbey school in Baume Abbey|Baume , whose abbot, Berno of Cluny|Berno , was the founder and first abbot of Cluny Abbey in 910. Odo followed him to Cluny, bringing his library; there he became abbot on Berno's death in 927.
Authorized by a privilege of Pope John XI in 931, Odo reformed the monasteries in Aquitaine , northern France, and Italy. The papal privilege empowered him to unite several abbey s under his supervision and to receive at Cluny monks from Benedictine Order|Benedictine abbeys not yet reformed; the greater number of the reformed monasteries, however, remained independent, and several became centres of reform. Odo became the great reforming abbot of Cluny, which became the model of monasticism for over a century and transformed the role of piety in European daily life (see Clunian Reforms ).
Between 936 and 942 he visited Italy several times, founding in Rome the monastery of Our Lady on the Aventine and reforming several convent s, e.g., Subiaco, Italy|Subiaco and Monte Cassino . He was sometimes entrusted with important political missions, e.g., when peace was arranged between Hugh of Arles and Alberic I of Spoleto .
Among his writings are: a comment on the Moralia of Pope Gregory I|St.Gregory , a biography of Saint Gerald of Aurillac , three books of Collationes (moral essays, severe and forceful). a few sermon s, an epic poem on the Redemption (religious)|Redemption ( Occupatio ) in several books (ed. Swoboda, 1900), and twelve choral antiphon s in honour of Saint Martin of Tours . Some scholars have attributed the Musica Enchiriadis to him.
There is only one contemporary biography of him, the Vita Odonis written by John of Salerno .
His feast day is 18 November.
References
CathEncy|id=11209a|title=Saint Odo
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STODO.htm St. Odo of Cluny on ewtn.com
http://saints.sqpn.com/sainto26.htm Odo of Cluny at Patron Saints Index
Schoolmasters of the Tenth Century. Cora E.Lutz. Archon Books 1977.
External links
http://books.google.com/books? id=qyqu3U9gna4C& pg=PA293 The Life of Saint Gerald of Aurillac by Odo of Cluny, trans. Gerald Sitwell, O.S.B. (Google Books)
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