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  Odo - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
During the occupation, Gul Dukat had originally enlisted Odo in order to investigate the murder of one of the Bajoran station workers; since Odo was seen as a neutral observer, sympathizing with no one, he was considered a valuable security officer.
In 2372, Odo married Lwaxana Troi in accordance with Tavnian law as a favor to her, so that her child would not be taken away from her at birth.
In the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, Odo is succeeded as security chief by Ro Laren, who has been pardoned for her past association with the Maquis and thus regained her Starfleet commission.
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 Cluny
Odo was a saintly and apparently very charming man, who had found in the Benedictine Rule the most perfect guide to salvation and whose only wish was to establish it as widely as possible in its strictest and most orthodox form.
Cluny suffered severely from the onslaughts of the two 18th-century movements hostile to anything medieval: the Enlightenment, with its classical mania for regularity and uniformity, and the Revolution.
Cluny was sold in 1798, a street was built through the nave of the church; in 1811 the bell towers of the sanctuary were dynamited, the ruins used as a rock quarry up to 1823, till finally it was accorded protection in 1826.
www.sspx.ca /Angelus/2002_December/Cluny.htm   (2354 words)

  
 odo - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Odo is a shapeshifter played by Rene Auberjonois on the science fiction television series.
He was studied by a Bajoran scientist, Dr. Mora Pol, under the auspices of the Cardassians; Odo modelled his humanoid appearance on Dr. Mora, but he could not duplicate humanoid features with precision, making his humanoid appearance an approximation.
In 2372, Odo married Lwaxana Troi in accordance with Tavnian law as a favor to her, so that her child would not be taken away from her at birth.
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 The name "Odo" in History
Odo, Bishop of Bayeux was the half-brother of William, Duke of Normandy and later William I (the Conqueror) of England.
Odo of Canterbury (died in 1200) was an English monk and theologian, known as Odo Cantianus or Odo of Kent.
Odo was released on the death of William in 1087 and attended the funeral.
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 Comparative Arts: A CyberEd Course: Part 4: Medieval Music: P.1
Odo's great accomplishments include the arranging of the tones of the scale into an orderly progression from A to G; and by thus assigning to them a system of letters, he was responsible for the earliest effective system of Western musical notation.
Odo's method, as expounded in his treatise, also included the mathematical measurement of spaces on the mono chord, which made it possible to determine accurately the pitches and intervals of each of the Gregorian modes.
Odo's teaching methods clearly indicated that a high degree of vocal culture was expected of his monastic choirs; and, since they sang most of the time, they got plenty of practice.
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 Patron Saints Index: Saint Odo of Cluny
Spiritual student of the abbot, Saint Berno of Cluny.
Abbot of Cluny, Massey and Deols in 927.
In 931, Pope John XI asked Odo to reform all the monasteries in the Aquitaine, northern France and Italy.
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 Cluny - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
The town of Cluny or Clugny lies in the modern-day département of Saône-et-Loire in the région of Bourgogne, in east-central France, near Mâcon.
Cluny was guided by an orderly succession of able and educated abbots drawn from the highest aristocratic circles, two of whom were canonized: Saints Odo of Cluny, the second abbot (died 942) and Hugh of Cluny (died 1109).
Cluny was not known for its severity or asceticism, nor for embracing apostolic poverty, but the abbots of Cluny supported the revival of the papacy and the reforms of Pope Gregory VII that led to unprecedented papal authority.
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 11 - 18  Odo
Odo is here for you as only one example, one who did it all so successfully, in the face of opposition and with his share of failures along the way.
Odo's school at Cluny was no life of ease; a hard and rigid discipline; he intimidated the refractory monks; he exhorted them to charity.
Odo was called to Rome for similar reasons two more times; each time he extended the influence of Cluny to the monasteries along the way.
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 Hotel Cluny
Saint Odo of Cluny (''ca.'' 878 - 18 November, 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was the second abbot of Cluny.
Odo became the great reforming abbot of Cluny, which became the model of monasticism for over a century and transformed the role of piety in European daily life.
Hugh of Cluny (1024 - 1109) was an Abbot of Cluny.
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 Odo of Cluny at AllExperts
Authorized by a privilege of Pope John XI in 931, Odo reformed the monasteries in Aquitaine, northern France, and Italy.
The papal privilege empowered him to unite several abbeys under his supervision and to receive at Cluny monks from Benedictine abbeys not yet reformed; the greater number of the reformed monasteries, however, remained independent, and several became centres of reform.
Odo became the great reforming abbot of Cluny, which became the model of monasticism for over a century and transformed the role of piety in European daily life (see clunian Reforms).
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 Cluny and the Divine Order
Odo (c.879-942) was the second abbot of Cluny, successor to St. Berno.
Odo emphasized two spiritual practices that came to be regarded as distinctively Cluniac: the preservation of silence and the continual use of vocal prayer.
Odo's life again emphasizes the saint's labors in representing, establishing, and embodying the order of a peace that is at once sacred and civil.
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 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
We have seen in our discussion of Gerald of Aurillac how Odo of Cluny's conclusion that Gerald had in fact been a saint had led him to accept the proposition that the end of time was not imminent and that the world was susceptible of reform.
Cluny did so, but only on the condition that the reformed establishments would then belong to Cluny and be independent of local officials.
Cluny became, in many ways, the dynamo that powered the engine of reform directed toward rescuing the Church from feudalism and rescuing lay society as well.
the-orb.net /textbooks/nelson/cluny.html   (1843 words)

  
 18. november: Den hellige Odo av Cluny
En av hans viktigste resultater var at han oppnådde pavelige og kongelige chartre som anerkjente Clunys immunitet og frihet fra all verdslig innflytelse og dominans.
I Odos embetsperiode trakk Cluny til seg mange menn som ønsket å følge dets observans, og antallet munker økte hurtig.
For det indre liv i Cluny og de tilknyttede klostrene insisterte Odo på taushet, enkel kost og en radikal tilbakevending til Benedikts regel, et liv etter de evangeliske råd fattigdom, kyskhet og lydighet, med korbønnen i sentrum.
www.katolsk.no /biografi/ocluny.htm   (1407 words)

  
 The Compass newspaper -- November 10, 2006 Issue -- Saint of the Day
Eventually, Odo was appointed director of the Baume Monastery school and Berno became the first abbot of the new monastery at Cluny.
Odo succeeded by arranging a marriage between Alberic and Hugh's daughter.
In addition to being a reformer and peacemaker, Odo wrote hymns, an epic poem on the redemption, treatises on morality and a biography of St. Gerald of Aurillac (855-909).
www.thecompassnews.org /compass/2006-11-10/saintoftheday.shtml   (529 words)

  
 Odo of Cluny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son of a feudal lord of Deols, near Le Mans and received his early education at the court of William the Pious, duke of Aquitaine, then studied at Paris under Remigius of Auxerre.
Authorized by a privilege of Pope John XI in 931, Odo reformed the monasteries in Aquitaine, northern France, and Italy.
Odo became the great reforming abbot of Cluny, which became the model of monasticism for over a century and transformed the role of piety in European daily life (see clunian Reforms).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Odo_of_Cluny   (356 words)

  
 Pope Urban II (c. 1035-1099)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Original name  Odo Of Châtillon-sur-marne, or Odo Of Lagery, or Of Lagny,  French  Odon, or Eudes, De Châtillon-sur-marne, or De Lagery, or De Lagny,  head of the Roman Catholic church (1088-99) who developed ecclesiastical reforms begun by Pope Gregory VII, launched the Crusade movement, and strengthened the papacy as a political entity.
Odo was born of noble parents about 1035 in the Champagne region of France.
At Reims and Cluny, Odo gained experience in ecclesiastical policy and administration and made contacts with two important reform groups of his time: the canons regular—clergymen dedicated to the active service of the church, who live a strict life in community—and the monks of Cluny.
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 Odo
Later, in the episode "The Alternate", Dr. Mora visited Odo at Deep Space Nine and went with him to the Gamma Quadrant to investigate a planet with a similar life-form.
Eventually, an infant shapeshifter who was dying intergrated itself into Odo's physical makeup.
He is often referred to as Constable Odo, though sources disagree as to whether this is an actual rank or a nickname.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/o/od/odo.html   (339 words)

  
 Cluny : Exploring Essential Information, Data and Explanation.
The monastery of Cluny differed in two ways from other Benedictine houses and confederations: in its organizational structure and in its execution of the liturgy as its main form of work.
The customs of Cluny also represented a shift from the earlier ideal of a Benedictine monastery as an agriculturally self-sufficient unit in which each member did physical labor as well as offering prayer.
Cluny was also home to Saints Odo of Cluny and Hugh of Cluny.
www.llpoh.org /Styles_and_Architecture/Cluny.html   (502 words)

  
 Lives of the Saints: November: 18. St. Odo of Cluny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Odo grew in wisdom and in virtue, and his father longed to see him shine at court.
Odo's heart was sad and his health failed, until he forsook the world and sought refuge under the shadow of St. Martin at Tours.
Later on he took the habit of St. Benedict at Baume, and was compelled to become abbot of the great abbey of Cluny, which was then building.
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 Cluny: Millennial Monasticism
Odo (926-944) was given the authority to subordinate other monasteries to the abbot of Cluny - thus allowing the spirit and independence of Cluny to be spread throughout Europe.
Cluny's artistic and architectural influence was not limited to its own house, grand as it was.
Though Cluny began to decline after the twelfth century for a variety of political, religious and social reasons, its legacy continues to this day.
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 St. Odo of Cluny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Odo is the glory of the great abbey of Cluny, which was responsible for a huge program of monastic and clerical reform under this great abbot.
In 927, he succeeded Berno as abbot of Cluny and it was he who obtained from Pope John XI the privilege of exemption and was authorized by him to reform the monasteries of France and Italy, where monastic observance was at a very low ebb.
Odo of Cluny was deeply devoted to St. Martin of Tours and as a young student imitated Martin in his love of beggars.
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 St. Gregory Thaumaturgus — St Gregory Wonderworker - November 17 - Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint ...
Odo (879-942) was son of noble parents who lived in the Alsace, France.
For example, Pope St. Gregory VII was a monk of Cluny, and this Pontiff in many senses was a living symbol of the Middle Ages.
Hence he produced a movement with enormous dynamism that changed the face of Europe.As almost always happened in the Middle Ages with saints like this, St. Odo was invited to be a counselor of Popes and Princes.This is a life that is worthy of being illustrated in stain glass windows.
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 ODO von Cluny
Johannes, der Biograph O.s, berichtet in der Vita (I, 3 und 4), daß der spätere Abt von Cluny mit 19 Jahren Kleriker in St.
Cluny wurde unter der Ägide O.s materiell reich ausgestattet, indem er bewußt den Erwerb von Kirchen aus Laienhand betrieb und somit eine Kirchenpolitik der Reform im Gefolge Benedikts von Aniane weiterentwickelte, die den Einfluß laikaler Gewalten auf die Kirche zurückzudrängen suchte.
A poetic Manifesto of Monasticism in the 10th Century in Mittellateinisch Jahrbuch 24/25; - Kurt Smolak: Zu einigen Graeca in der Occupatio des Odo von Cluny, ebd.
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 Abbey of Cluny - Cluny, France
At its height of its influence in the 12th century, Cluny was at the head of a monastic "empire" of 10,000 monks.
At Cluny the central art was the liturgy itself, extensive and beautiful in inspiring surroundings, reflecting the new personally-felt wave of piety of the 11th century.
The Abbey of Cluny was guided by an orderly succession of able and educated abbots drawn from the highest aristocratic circles, two of whom were canonized: Saints Odo of Cluny, the second abbot (died 942) and Hugh of Cluny (died 1109).
www.sacred-destinations.com /france/cluny-abbey.htm   (1288 words)

  
 Odo of Cheriton
Bale mentions a tradition that he was a Cistercian or a Præmonstratensian; but he can hardly have taken vows if, as seems most likely, he was the Master Odo of Cheriton mentioned in Kentish and London records from 1211 to 1247, the son of William of Cheriton, lord of the manor of Delce in Rochester.
In 1211-12 William was debited with a fine to the crown, for Odo to have the custodia of Cheriton church, near Folkestone.
In 1233 Odo inherited his father's estates in Delce, Cheriton, and elsewhere.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/o/odo_of_cheriton.html   (362 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: Foundation Charter of Cluny, 910
The founding of the abbey of Cluny in 910 marked the onset of this period.
As well as providing some basis for Cluny's later power and independence, the charter is an example of why donations were made to the Church.
To all right thinkers it is clear that the providence of God has so provided for certain rich men that, by means of their transitory possessions, if they use them well, they may be able to merit everlasting rewards.
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 The Early Abbots of Cluny
The monastery of Cluny (in France, northwest of Lyons) was a center for the reform and spiritual renewal of Western monasticism in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
The abbot of Cluny appointed priors for the daughter houses, which were thus permanently under a central jurisdiction, making the Cluniac monasteries (or some of them) into the first monastic order in the modern sense.
The eighth Abbot of Cluny was Peter the Venerable, born in 1092, prior of Vezelay in 1112, and elected abbot of Cluny in 1122.
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 sl Odo This article is about the Star Trek Star...
Odo of Cluny Odo of Cluny, also known as "Saint Odo"
"Odo" is a shapeshifter shapeshifter played by Rene Auberjonois Rene Auberjonois on the science fiction television science fiction television series ".
It wasn't until later that Odo learned that his people are the leaders of the Dominion Dominion.
www.biodatabase.de /Odo   (282 words)

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