Odin, John Mary, D.D., a Roman Catholic prelate who flourished in the United States, was born at Am- biere, department of the Loire, France, near the open- ing of this century, and was educated in his native country. Entering the monastic life as a Lazarist, he was sent to the United States as missionary, and for a time preached in Missouri. In 1842 he was made bishop of Claudiopolis, and vicar apostolic of Texas; was trans- ferred to Galveston in 1847, to New Orleans in 1861, and, finally, was made archbishop of that diocese. He diecl at New Orleans May 25, 1870. See Drake, Diet. of . I mcr. Biog. s. v.
Odington, Wai,ti;i!, called Walter of Fresham, after a monastery in Worcestershire to which he be- longed, lived in the reign of Henry VIII. He was a very learned ecclesiastic, and noted as an astronomer, mathematician, and musician, on each of which sub- jects he wrote treatises. fJe Motibus Planetarum et de Mut(ttione Aeris is attributed to him; and Dr. Burney observes of his treatise entitled Of the Speculation of Music, which is preserved in the library of Bcne't Col-
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lege, Cambridge, " that if all other musical tracts, from the time of Boethius to Franco and John Cotton were lost, with this MS. our knowledge would not be much diniiiiislied."
Odo OF Cambuai, a French ecclesiastic of note, was born at Orleans about the middle of the 11th century. He was tirst known under the name of Oudard. Hav- ing entered the Church at an early age he became pro- fessor at Toul, and afterwards superior of the cathedral school at Tournay. His reputation attracted a large number of pu]iils from various parts, even from Ger- many and Italy. He was especially renowned for dia- lectics, in which he followed the method of the Realists. About 1092 he ceased teaching, and with five of his fol- lowers retired into the old abbey of St. Martin of Tour- nay, where they followed at first the rule of St. Augus- tine. By the advice of Aimery, bishop of Anchin, Odo became a regular monk in 109.5, and was appointed ab- bot. The congregation, composed at that time of some twenty persons, rapidly increased. Odo made them fol- low tlie customs of Cliigny, and maintained the rule strictly. On July 2, 1105, the Council of Kheims made him bishop of Cambrai in the place of Gaucher, wlio, nevertheless, protected by the emperor Henry IV, re- tained his dignity until Henry V ascended the throne, when Odo was installed in liis see in 1106. Odo refus- ing, however, to receive from that prince the investi- ture which he had already received from bis metropoli- tan, he was expelled from Cambrai, and retired to the abbey of Anchin, where he busied himself in writing religious works. He died there June 19, 1113. His contemporaries ranked him among the saints; he is honored as such in several churches of the Netherlands, and is mentioned by the Bollandist's. Odo had the reputation of being learned in theology, mathematics, and jioctry, and Dom lUvet states that lie knew Greek and Hebrew. He wrote, Sacri canonis missce exposilio (Paris, 1490, 1496, 12mo; several times reprinted): — De ]}eccato originali, lib. iii : — Contra JmUeuni nomine Leoncm de adventu Chrisii: — De hlasphemia in Spiritum Sanctum: — In canones Evangeliorum : — Homilia de vil- lico iniquitatis ; five tracts inserted in Schott, Bibl. (ed. 1618), vol. XV : — Epistola Lambeiia episcojjo A trehotensi, in Baluze, Miscellanea, v, 345. Among the MSS. at- tributed to him, although their authenticity is not fidly established, are a poem on the creation, parables, an in- troduction to theology, several homilies, conferences, etc. Among the works supposed to be lost, is a poem, De bellis Trojanis, which is quoted with praise in an elegy on Odo written b}' Godefrey, a pupil of the school of Rheims. See Amand du Cliastel, Vita beati Odonis, in Actis SS. Junii, iii, 911-910; Tritheim, Scrip. Eccles. c. 370, p. 94 (ed. Fabricius) ; IMolanus, Natales SS. Bel- gii, p. 221; Sanders, Bibl. Belgica; Mabillon, Annales, V, 650, 651; Gallia Christiana, iii, 25-27, 273; Hist, litter, de la France, ix, 583-606. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxxviii, 494, (J. N. P.)
Odo Caxtianus. See Odo of Kent.
Odo OF CiiATEAuaoux, a French prelate of dis- tinction, was at first canon of the church of Paris, then chancellor in 1238. Ughelli claims that he afterwards became a monk, and was made abbot of Granselve, but this does not seem proved. Ou tlie contrary, it is very likely that lie was still chancellor of Paris in 1243, when he was made cardinal-bishop of Tusculum by Innocent IV. In 1245 he returned to France as papal legate, preached a crusade in the pope's name, and embarked with Louis IX for Palestine towards the close of iMay, 1248. William of Nangis, Joinville, and other histori- ans agree in praising his courage, zeal, and disinterest- edness. In 1255 we find him in Italy, and in 1264 he came again as legate to France. He died at Civita Vecchia in 1273. He wrote, Epistola ad Innocentium papam, published in D'Achery's Spicilegium, vii, 213 : — Distinctiones super Psdlferinin, in MS. No. 1327, 1328, Sorbonne Collection, 857, St. Victor's : — Sermo7ies, No.
789, Sorbonne : — Lectio mag. Odonis de Castro Ra- du/plii, postmodiim e2nscopi Tuscidani, quando incoepit in Theologia, in tlie same volume. See Hist, litter, de la France, vol. xix ; Gerard de Frachet, Chronique, in the Ilistoriens de France, xxi, 5; Joinville, Histoire de St. Louis, passim. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxxviii, 499. (J. N. P.)