Saint Odo the Good

Saint Odo the Good

聖奧督

紀念日 / Memorial date

七月四日

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July 4

Saint Odo the Good

Saint Odo the Good

聖奧督

紀念日:

七月四日

Memorial Date:

July 4

聖奧督

奧督大約生於870年,他是東英格利亞人。他年青時棄家,加入了本篤會修道院,後被任命為主教。

942年,奧督成為坎特伯雷大主教,以公正和對人民福祉的深切關懷,深得人心,治理教務功績卓越。

奧督待人仁愛,獲得了「善人」的雅號。聖人安逝於959年。

祈禱

全能永生的天主,你是人靈的善牧,你揀選聖奧督牧養你的子民;求你藉聖奧督的榜樣和祈禱,幫助我們牧者和羊群,善解人民的需要,彼此扶助,同抵永生的天鄉。因你的聖子、我們的主耶穌基督,他和你及聖神,是唯一天主,永生永王。亞孟。

Saint Odo the Good

St. Odo was the Archbishop of Canterbury, also known as Odo of Canterbury. Born in c.870 to Danish parents in East Anglia, England, he joined a Benedictine monastery at Fleury-sur-Loire and then was appointed bishop of Ramsbury, in Wessex. 

In 942, Odo became archbishop of Canterbury, wielding both secular and spiritual authority with fairness and deep concern for the welfare of the people. 

He assisted in the formulation of the legislation of Kings Edmund and Edgar the Peaceful, created as a separate diocese the region of East Anglia, and gave his blessings to the monastic reforms of St. Dunstan at Glastonbury, thereby promoting the revival of monasticism in England. 

St. Odo died in 959. He is known as “the Good” because of his famed holiness.

Prayer 

St. Odo the Good, pray for us.