Odilon de Mercœur

Saint Odilon de Mercoeur (994 - 1049), was the fifth abbot of Cluny.

Wire of a powerful seigneuriale family of Mercœur in Auvergne, he is the principal instigator of the religious empire of Cluny, with his affiliated monasteries. With the support of the Pope, it extends the order clunisien beyond the the Pyrenees and of the the Rhine.

One allots to him capacities Thaumaturge S, with the cure of a blind man, and other miracles like the transformation of the Eau into Vin. These miracles cause many vocations and many gifts, with the advantage of Cluny. It is with the one of the promoters of the Paix of God and the Truce of God as well as Fête of dead the, celebrated the shortly after the festival of the All Saints' day, the November 2nd. To help the poor, he does not hesitate to sacrifice part of the treasure of his kind, provided already well at the time. He refuses in 1031 the archbishop's palace of Lyon. Its theological thought left, in Cluny, an important print even after its death, in 1049. Hugues de Semur succeeded to him the head of the abbey. Odilon is described like

a small thin man and Not very eloquent highly-strung person, liking the authority and not hiding it, jealous of its prerogatives, he was a very energetic chief and an incomparable organizer. But it could also be soft and charitable and it often sometimes happened to him to include/understand, better than its contemporaries, the problems of his time.

He rests today in the church prieurale of Souvigny where he to lie at the sides of saint Maïeul_de_Cluny (its predecessor, fourth abbot of Cluny, died into 994). The surveys and the archaeological excavations carried out between November 2001 and January 2002 put at the day their burials forgotten since the depredations of the revolution.

Celebrated the January 4th.

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