dissolute monks if necessary, and to make sure that future monks followed Cluniac
customs. As well as his reforms, Odo is well known for his vita of Gerald of Aurillac,
which became a model for the holy life a layman might follow without becoming a monk,
yet acting as an important protector of monks.
Constance B.Bouchard
[See also: CLUNIAC ORDER; HAGIOGRAPHY]
John of Salerno. Vita sancti Odonis. PL 133.43–86.
Odo. De vita sancti Geraldi. PL 133.630–704.
Sitwell, Gerard, ed. and trans. St. Odo of Cluny: Being the Life of St. Odo of Cluny by John of
Salerno and the Life of St. Gerald of Aurillac by St. Odo. London: Sheed and Ward, 1958.
Rosenwein, Barbara H. Rhinoceros Bound: Cluny in the 10th Century. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
. “St. Odo’s St. Martin: The Uses of a Model.” Journal of MedievalHistory 4 (1978):316–31.
ODO OF DEUIL
(d. 1162). A monk of Saint-Denis who succeeded the famous Suger as abbot in 1152.
Odo’s reputation is due mainly to his chronicle of the unsuccessful Second Crusade. He
served as chaplain to Louis VII on this expedition, and his De profectione Ludovici VII in
orientem is a firsthand account of events from the time Louis took the cross in 1146 until
he sailed from Adalia to Antioch in March 1148.
John Bell Henneman, Jr.
Odo of Deuil. Odo of Deuil: De profectione Ludovici VII in orientem/The Journey of
Louis VII to the East, ed. and trans. Virginia G.Berry. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1948.
OGIER LE DANOIS
. See CHEVALERIE OGIER
OLORON-SAINTE-MARIE
. The exterior of the church of Sainte-Croix (begun ca. 1070) in Oloron-Sainte-Marie
(Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is disappointing: the defensive-looking tower is heavy, the walls
and chevet visibly remodeled, and the doorway a ruin. The Romanesque interior,
however, is intact: nave of three bays with side aisles, short transept, apse, and two
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