Home1823 Edition

ODO

Volume 15 · 146 words · 1823 Edition

Sr., second abbot of Cluny in France, was illustrious for learning and piety in the 10th century. The sanctity of his life contributed greatly to enlarge the congregation of Cluny; and he was so esteemed, that popes, bishops, and secular princes, usually chose him the arbiter of their disputes. He died about the year 942, and his works are printed in the Bibliothèque of Cluny.

Ono 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 Oncere Philistini; De Moribus Ecclesiasticis; De Vitiis et Virtutibus Animalium, &c.