Odo of Novara

Odo of Novara (c. 1105 - 1200) was an Italian Carthusian monk. 
A native of Novara, he was appointed as prior of Geirach in Slovenia. However, he experienced difficulties with Dietrich, the local bishop, who persecuted him. Odo went to Rome to request the pope to relieve him of his office.Alban Butler, Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000), 96.
After resigning as prior, he became a chaplain for many decades at the monastery at Tagliacozzo.
==Veneration==
After his death, an inquiry into his manner of life was ordered by Gregory IX.Alban Butler, Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000), 96. He was described at the inquiry by Richard, bishop of Trivento, as a "God-fearing man, modest and chaste, given up day and night to watching and prayer, clad only in rough garments of wool, living in a tiny cell… obeying always the sound of the bell when it called him to office."Alban Butler, Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000), 96.
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==External links==
*Odo of Novara
Category:1105 births
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Category:Carthusians
Category:Beatified people
Category:13th-century venerated Christians
Category:People from the Province of Novara
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