Odon of Cluny

Biography

Entry in the orders

Resulting from a noble family, it receives a good education, in particular at the court of the count d' Anjou, then with that of the duke of Aquitaine Guillaume I {{er}} '' the Piles ''.

After a miraculous cure, or according to the wish of his father, it is devoted to holy Martin by withdrawing with the church Saint Martin's day de Tours in 899. After having supplemented its formation in Paris, where he is the pupil of the bishop of Auxerre Remi, he writes a summary of the Morales of Gregoire de Tours.

He enters the orders in 909 to the Abbaye of Balsam, Bernon gives him the dress Benedictine.

The abbot of Aurillac

It succeeds like third abbot of Aurillac Jean d' Aurillac, which was relationship of its founder, holy Géraud of which it wrote the life at the request of Turpin, bishop of Limoges, which will order it priest in 925. Odon collected all the documents and all testimonys of those which had known Géraud, and carefully studied the foundation and the statutes of the abbey which had been used as model in Cluny. With the Life of saint Géraud d' Aurillac , he proposes the first model of the Christian knight, that of a powerful lord who puts his force and his richnesses at the service of justice and peace. One is unaware of how long it was abbot of Aurillac where it had a coadjutor of the name of Arnulphe which succeeded to him in 926.

The abbot of Cluny

Chosen its will by Bernon to succeed to him like second abbot of Cluny, it takes up duties to its death in 926 or 927. In 931 it obtains from the pope Jean XI, whom the Abbaye of Cluny has same immunity as the Abbaye of Aurillac, as chief of order depending directly on the Holy See. It made there build a church dedicated to Saint-Pierre, said church of Saint-Pierre-the-Old man. He takes care to provide the abbey with a good library, a school and obtains the right of coinage. Its reputation of holiness attracts many monks in the abbey, and of many hermits around. It is called to reform other monasteries, among which those of Saint-Paul-out-the-Walls in Rome, and Saint-Augustin with Pavia.

As Bernon had chosen to succeed to him, it names its successor, Aimar of Cluny.

A brilliant well-read man

It is Odon which gathered the first manuscripts of the library of Cluny by bringing back books coming from Saint Martin's day de Tours.

Endowed with a musical education, he writes several works, in which he is the first to name the notes (with letters: has for it, B for if, use preserved in the countries Germanic and Anglo-Saxon), class the melodies and the sounds, evokes the Organistrum, ancestor of the Vielle.

Odon of Cluny wrote:

of the Collate , one also allots the Dialog to him on the music , and sometimes the Musica Enchiriadis , works on the music;
a Occupatio , epic Poetry on the hello;
a Life of saint Géraud d' Aurillac , who describes the military life and the holy life of the character, at the request of Turpin of Limoges;
of the épitomés , shortened other religious works;