Blessed Odo of Beauvais
- Memorial
- 28 January
- Profile
- A soldier when young, he initially planned on a military career.
He gave up the military life to become a Benedictine monk at Corbie, France under Saint Pascasius Radbert.
Tutor to the sons of Charles Martel.
Abbot in 851.
Bishop of Beauvais in 861.
Known as a reformer in his diocese.
Mediator between Pope Nicholas I and Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims, France.
- Born
- 801 at Beauvais, Picardy, France
- Died
- 880 of natural causes
- Beatified
- by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmed)
- Print References
- The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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