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  Odilo Globocnik -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Odilo Globocnik (April 21, 1904 - May 31, 1945) was a prominent Austrian (A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party) Nazi and later an (Special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps) SS leader.
Tracked down and captured by the (The people of Great Britain) British on May 31, 1945, he committed (The act of killing yourself) suicide the same day in Paternion by biting on his capsule of (An extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid) cyanide.
Odilo Globocnik - Kämpfer für den "Anschluss", Vollstrecker des Holocaust, Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt/Celovec 1997, ISBN 3854352786.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/od/odilo_globocnik.htm   (589 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Odilo
On account of his services in the reform Odilo was called by Fulbert of Chartres the "Archangel of the Monks", and through his relations with the popes, rulers, and prominent bishops of the time Cluny monasticism was promoted.
In 1046 Odilo was present at the coronation of Henry III in Rome.
Odilo, in seinem Leben und Wirken (Brunn, 1885); IDEM, Kirchenlexikon s.v.; SACKUR, Die Cluniacenser bis zur Mitte des 11 Jahrhunderts, I, II (Halle, 1892-94); JARDET, Saint Odilon, Abbe de Cluny (Lyons, 1898).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11207c.htm   (747 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - Halloween - Calendar Encyclopedia
Initially this change of date only applied to the diocese of Rome, but was extended to the rest of Christendom a century later by Pope Gregory IV in an effort to standardize liturgical worship.
The feast day of All Souls Day, celebrated to commemorate those souls condemned temporarily to Purgatory, was inaugurated by St Odilo, at the time the abbott of the influential monastery at Cluny, as 2 November in 998.
According to what can be reconstructed of the beliefs of the ancient Celts, the new year began around November 1 or on a New Moon near that date, a day referred to in modern Gaelic as Samhain ("Sow-in" or alternatively "Sa-ven", meaning: End of the summer).
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