Odo of Novara
{{Short description|12th-century beatified Italian Carthusian priest}}
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Odo of Novara
O. Cart.
|birth_date=c. 1105
|death_date=14 January 1200 (aged 94)
|feast_day= 14 January
|venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church
|image= Odon.jpg
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|caption= Painting - Daniele Crespi (1629).
|birth_place= Novara, Duchy of Milan
|death_place= Tagliacozzo, Papal States
|titles= Priest
|beatified_date= 31 May 1859
|beatified_place=Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States
|beatified_by=Pope Pius IX
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Odo of Novara (c. 1105 – 14 January 1200) was an Italian Catholic priest and a professed member from the Carthusians.Alban Butler, Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000), 96.{{cite web|url=http://catholicsaints.info/saint-odo-of-novara/|title=Blessed Odo of Novara|publisher=Saints SQPN|date=13 January 2010|accessdate=7 November 2016}}
Pope Pius IX confirmed his beatification in mid-1859.{{cite web|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90548|title=Blessed Odo of Novara|date=|publisher=Santi e Beati|accessdate=7 November 2016}}
Life
He was born in Novara around 1105 and was appointed as the prior of Geirach Charterhouse in Slovenia in 1189. But he experienced difficulties with Dietrich - the local bishop - who persecuted him. Odo went to Rome in 1190 to request Pope Clement III to relieve him of his office.
He became a chaplain after his resignation at a convent in Tagliacozzo. Odo died there in 1200 aged 95.
=Beatification=
A process of investigation into his manner of life was initiated at the request of Pope Gregory IX. The Bishop of Trivento Riccardo described Odo as a "God-fearing man, modest and chaste, given up day and night to watching and prayer, clad only in rough garments of wool, living in a tiny cell ... obeying always the sound of the bell when it called him to office".
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External links
- [http://catholicsaints.info/saint-odo-of-novara/ Saints SQPN]
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Category:12th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
Category:Beatifications by Pope Pius IX
Category:Italian beatified people
Category:People from the Province of Novara
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