Odo of Novara

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Odo of Novara (c. 1105 – 14 January 1200) was an Italian Catholic priest and a professed member from the Carthusians.^[1]^[2]

Pope Pius IX confirmed his beatification in mid-1859.^[3]

Life

He was born in Novara around 1105 and was appointed as the prior of Geirach Charterhouse in Slovenia in 1189. But he experienced difficulties with Dietrich - the local bishop - who persecuted him. Odo went to Rome in 1190 to request Pope Clement III to relieve him of his office.^[1]^[2]^[3]

He became a chaplain after his resignation at a convent in Tagliacozzo. Odo died there in 1200 aged 95.

Beatification

A process of investigation into his manner of life was initiated at the request of Pope Gregory IX.^[1] The Bishop of Trivento Riccardo described Odo as a "God-fearing man, modest and chaste, given up day and night to watching and prayer, clad only in rough garments of wool, living in a tiny cell ... obeying always the sound of the bell when it called him to office".

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Alban Butler, Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000), 96.
^ ^a ^b "Blessed Odo of Novara". Saints SQPN. 13 January 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Blessed Odo of Novara". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 7 November 2016.