ODO CANTIANUS, so called as being a native of Kent, in England, was a Benedictine monk in the 12th century, in which order his learning and eloquence raised him to the dignity of prior and abbot. Archbishop Becket was his friend, and his panegyric was made by John of Salisbury. He composed Commentaries on the Pentateuch, and the Second Book of Kings; Moral Reflections on the Psalms; treatises entitled, De onere Philistim; De moribus Ecclesiasticis; De vitiis et virtutibus Animæ, &c.