Saint Odo the Good
- Also known as
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Oda the Good;
Oda of Canterbury;
Odo of Canterbury
- Memorial
- 4 July
- Profile
- Parents were pagan Danish nobility who had come to East Anglia as part of a colonizing/invading force.
Uncle of Saint Oswald.
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
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For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Catholic Online
- Print References
- The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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