Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Dedication of the Churches of Peter and Paul
- Romanus of Antioch, martyr
- Mawes or Maudez, abbot
- Odo of Cluny, abbot
St. Odo of Cluny (ca. 879-942 A.D.) was born near Le Mans, France. He received the tonsure when he was nineteen, a canonry at St. Martin's in Tours, and then spent several years of study at Paris under Remigius of Auxerre. St. Odo became a monk under St. Berno, who became abbot of the newly founded Cluny monastery. In 927 A.D., St. Odo succeeded St. Berno and became the second abbot of Cluny. St. Odo spread Cluny's influence to many monasteries all over Europe. He wrote hymns, treatises on morality, an epic poem on the Redemption, and a biography of St. Gerald of Aurillac.
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