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| | Tales of the Middle Ages - Clergy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Abbot Odo, the great 10th century clerical reformer, received some of his greatest opposition from the monastery in Fleury, France, where the monks fervidly resisted his attempts at social, political, and moral change within their order. |
 | | Then, arming themselves with swords and shields they went on to the roof of the building "as though to hurl stones and missles at their enemy." Others, guarding the door, said they would rather die than admit the abbot from another monastery. |
 | | One of Odo's party, a monk called Adolfus, was washing his shoes, preparatory to the rite of the washing of feet that was about to take place according to St. Benedict's Rule. |
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