Odilo of Cluny

Odilo (* 961 or 962; † January 1, 1049 in Souvigny ) was Cluniazensermönch and fifth abbot of Cluny 994-1049 Odilo was canonized, his feast is on January 2nd..

Odilo came from noble family, the noble family Mercour in the Auvergne. 991 he entered Cluny, where he in May 993 coadjutor abbot Maiolus will soon whose successor he takes on 11 May 994. Odilo knew almost all important rulers of the time: the Saxon imperial house ( Empress Adelaide, Emperor Otto III. ), The Emperor Henry II, the Salian Emperor Conrad II and Henry III, the kings of France, Hungary, Navarre and León.. As abbot, he led the Cluniac reform to climax in year of his death were already part of the 68 monasteries Association of Cluny.

The political concerns Odilos were mainly the peace of God, so certain sacred times - for example ecclesiastical hard times - keep clear of battle and war, and the Church's freedom ( libertas ecclesiae ), away from the proprietary church system. Cluny and its branch monasteries should be subordinate only to the Pope. Cluny was 998 exemt what was new and groundbreaking for the time, 38 monasteries were there already filialisiert. The All Souls' Day, mandatory from 1028/30 for Cluny, goes back to him.

In the year 1033, after the death of Odilo Burchard ( June 22) is elected Archbishop of Lyon - he refused on grounds of principle from the office. He was above all a man of asceticism and prayer. Education and training of its monks and monasteries Branch him were always very important. Odilo is attributed to the word: if he should go to hell, then you'd better, because he was too lenient, as for hardness and cruelty. He died in the night at New Year. His bones were collected by Archbishop Roger le Fort on 21 June 1345 but burned during the French Revolution on the "Altar of the Fatherland".

Biographies Odilos are received from his students and Iotsaldus of Peter Damian.

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