Saint Odo the Good

Also known as

• Odo of Canterbury
• Odo the Severe
• Oda….

Memorial

• 4 July

Profile

Odo’s parents were pagan Danish nobility who had come to East Anglia as part of a colonizing/invading force. Uncle of Saint Oswald of Worcester. Benedictine monk. Bishop of Rambury, Wessex, England. Present at the battle of Brunanburk. Archbishop of Canterbury in 942. Advisor to King Edmund and King Edgar, and helped set their legislative agendas. Paved the way for the later monastic restoration in England.

Born

• c.870 at East Anglia, England

Died

• 2 June 959 of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Odo the Good“. Saints.SQPN.com. 28 February 2013. Web. 20 May 2013. <>