page_title: Jean-Marie Odin
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Jean-Marie Odin / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Mary's of the Barrens before 1907
context_page_description: Jean-Marie Odin, C.M., was a French Roman Catholic missionary, first Bishop of Galveston, and second Archbishop of New Orleans.
context_section_description: The seventh of ten children, Jean-Marie Odin was born in Hauteville, in the neighborhood of Ambierle, to Jean and Claudine Marie (née Seyrol) Odin. He showed a strong inclination toward religion from an early age, and was sent at 9 to study Latin under his uncle, the pastor of Noailly, whose death soon ended this period of instruction.
  After two years at home, he studied the classics at Roanne and Verrières before beginning his studies in philosophy at L'Argentière and Alix. Odin, while attending the Sulpician seminary in Lyon, accepted an appeal from Bishop Louis Dubourg in 1822 to join the missions in Louisiana.
  After arriving in New Orleans in July 1822, he was sent to complete his theological studies at St. Mary's of the Barrens Seminary in Perryville, Missouri,  on the outskirts of St. Louis. He entered the Congregation of the Mission (also known as the Lazarists or Vincentians) on November 8, 1822, and was later ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Dubourg on May 4, 1823.
caption: St. Mary's of the Barrens (before 1907)
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