Odo of Tournai

Odo of Cambrai (also Odardus ) ( 1060 in Orléans, † June 19, 1113 in the Abbey of Anchin ) was a theologian, abbot, and finally bishop of Cambrai. He is a blessed the Catholic Church.

Life

Odo was at first a monk at the Benedictine monastery of Anchin. Later, he was a teacher at the cathedral schools in Toul and Tournai. He turned against the nominalism, whom he regarded as heretical. In 1092 he renewed the Lower previous monastery Saint -Martin in Tournai first as canons. This community initially followed the Rule of St. Augustine, before they adopted the principles of the Benedictines of Cluny. Odo was in 1095 abbot of this community. In 1105 he became bishop of Cambrai, but had to deal deal with his predecessor Manasseh of Soissons, who had been deposed by the Council of Clermont in 1095 as Simonist, but was built by Emperor Henry IV supported. This dispute led to Odo in 1110 resigned his office of bishop, and entered the monastery of Anchin.

He is buried in the monastery of Anchin. His feast day is the 19th or 20th of June. Godefried of Reims wrote poems in honor Odos.

Work

Odo was heavily influenced by the philosophy and early Christian writers of antiquity. According to his biographer Hermann Odo of Tournai wrote three writings on logic, but which are not obtained. He has also written explanations to several books of the Bible. Influential was his work on the original sin. Furthermore, he made excerpts from Pliny's Naturalis historia. In his work De peccato originali he used dialectical methods.

Works (selection)

• Sophist. Liber complexionum ( lost );
• De re et enterica ( lost );
• De operibus six dierum ( written as Hildebert of Lavardin )
• Sermons
• Exposure in Canonem Missae
• De peccato originali, 3 books.
• Disputatio contra Judaeum ....
• De blaphemia in Spiritum Sanctum
• De canonibus evangeliorum