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of Our Lady of Bom Successo was built. The king had such rdufidenco in him that lio made him envoy to Charlrs I of England, to the exiled Charles II, and to Pope Innocent X (1.50). ThcCiiu'cnof Portugal also sent him as envoy to Pope Alexander VIII.

In the year 1055 he was sent as envoy from John IV of Portugal to Anne of Austria and Louis XIV to con- clude a treaty between Portugal and France. Here as elsewhere, success attended him; but while nego- tiations abroad and matters of government at home afforded opportunities of serving the House of Bra- ganza, he would not accept any honour in return. His acquaintances praise his straightforwardness, honesty, tact, and disinterestedness. He refused the Archbish- opric of Bragaand the Primacy of Goa and the Bishop- ric of Coimbra; nor would he accept the titles of Privy Councillor or Queen's Confessor, though he held both offices. In 1665 he published " Initium, Incrementum, et Exitus Famihae Geraldinorum, Desmonia; Comi- tum, Palatinorum Kyerria; in Hibernia, ac Persecu- tionis Ha>reticorum Descriptio" etc., his work on the Earls of Desmond, for which he availed himself of the traditional knowledge of his ancestors. In the first part he describes the origin of the Munster Geraldines, their varying fortunes, and their end in the heroic struggle for faith and fatherland. It is our chief au- thority on this subject. The second part treats of the cruelties inflicted on the Irish Catholics, and of the martyrdom of twenty Dominicans, many of whom had been with him in Lisbon. The work was translated into French by Abb6 Joubert (1697), and into English by the Rev. C. P. INIeehan, Dublin (2nd edition an- notated, 1878.) During these years his chief concern was to put his college on a firm basis and to make it render the greatest possible service to Ireland. Bom Successo became too small for the number of students. In 1659 he laid the first stone of a larger building -which was called Corpo Santo. To provide funds for these houses he consented to become Bishop of Coim- bra and, in consequence. President of the Privy Coun- cil; but before the papal Bull arrived he died. His remains reposed in the cloister of Corpo Santo until the earthquake of 1755; the inscription on his tomb recorded that he was "In variis Regum legationibus felix, . . . Vir Prudentia, Litteris, and Religione con- spicuus.' (Successful in embassies for kings . . .A man distinguished for prudence, knowledge, and vir- tue.) A few years after the catastrophe, on the same spot, with the same name and object, a new college and church arose, which, with Bom Successo, keep O'Daly's memory fresh in Lisbon to the present day.

MS. pre.served in Bom Successo; Letter of O'Daly published by Meehan (1878); Baro.v (wlio knew O'Daly), Libri guingue apologetici (Paris, 1666); Echabd. Script. Ord. Prad. (Paria, 1719-21); Hibernia Dominiccna contains much additional infor- mation; Meehan, Introduction to his translation: Bellesheim, Geach. der kath. Kirche in Ireland, II. Ill (for an original letter of. Ill, 756); O'CoNNELL, Dominic O'Daly in Faith and Fatherland (Dublin, 1888).

Reginald Walsh,

O'Daly, DoNOGH Mor (in Irish Donnchadh M6r O Dalaigh), a celebrated Irish poet, d. 1244. About thirty of his poems are extant, amounting to four or five thousand lines, nearly all rehgious. O'Reilly styles him Abbot of Boyle (Irish Writers, p. LXXXVIII) as does O'Curry (Manners and Customs, III, p. 301) ; he was certainly buried in the abbey there, but it cannot be proved that he was an ecclesiastic. The religious cast of his poetry would naturally account for his hav- ing been accepted as one. According to O'Donovan (Four Masters, ad an. 1244) he was the head of the O'Dalys of Finnyvara of Burren in Clare, where the ruins of his house are still pointed out. He has often been called the Irish Ovid, for the smoothness of his verse. He was the second of six brothers, the third of whom, Muireadhach "Albanach" or "the Scotch- man ", was also a poet. The present writer has heard some of O'Daly's verse from the mouths of the peas-

antry. Only two or three of his pieces have been pub- lished, but Professor Toniils O Miille of Galway is now preparing them for the press.

O'Eeilly, Catalogue of Irish Writers (Dublin, 1820), p. LXXXVIII; Hyde, History of Irish Literature, p. 466-8; Idem, Religious Songs of Connaeht, Vol. I; O'CnRRY, Manners and CuS' toms of the Ancient /rt.sft. III (Dublin), 301. For an account of his brother see The Tribes of Ireland, ed. O'Donovan (Dublin, 1852), p. 5.

Douglas Hyde.

Oddfello'ws. See Societies, Secret.

O'Dea, Edward John. See Seattle, Diocese of.

Odescalchi, Benedetto, See Innocent XI, Pope.

Odescalchi, Carlo, cardinal, prince, archbishop, and Jesuit, b. at Rome, 5 March, 1786; d. at Modena, 17 August, 1841. His father, Duke of Sirmien, Prince of the Roman empire, was a man of culture and at- tended persoiudly to Carlo's education. He early manifested a religious vocation. Ordained priest, he said his hrst Mass 1 Jan., 1809. He won the confidence of many souls, among others, a young cleric after- wards Pius IX, and later he ordained priest Gioac- chino Pecci, eventually Leo XIII. Odescalchi was in the suite of Pius VII during the perilous times that pre- ceded the pope's captivity, and after his release, he was rapidly promoted, and sent twice on special missions to Vienna. In 1823 he was created cardinal and imme- diately afterwards Archbishop of Ferrara, but he re- mained with the pope who was then dying. He de- voted himself to his see with apostolic energy, until he resigned (1826). Returning to Rome he was made Bishop of Sabina, prefect of several congregations, and became protector and promoter of many good works. He was in the conclaves for the elections of Leo XII, Pius VIII, and Gregory XVI. Cardinal Wiseman tes- tifies to the general confidence reposed in his virtue and high principle on these occasions. When the Soci- ety of Jesus was restored by Pius VII (1814), Odescal- chi had resolved to join it, and a cell had been pre- pared for him at Sant' Andrea. But the poi)e would not then allow him to enter, nor would Gregory permit it (1837), a commission of four cardinals, appointed to consider the question, having reported in the negative. Finally, permission to resign the cardinalitial dignity having been given in full consistory (1839), Odescalchi entered the novitiate at Verona, and after a short pro- bation was devoting himself to various ministries when he died. As a youth he had published the not unimportant "Memorie istorico-critiche dell' Acade- mia de' Lincei" (Rome, 1806) and as Bishop of Sa- bina his "Massime sacerdotali" (Rome, 1834).

Berlendis, Memorie edificanti del P. C. Odescalchi (Rome,

1842 ), Eng. tr. ed. Faber (London, 1849); Angeuni-Rota,

Storia del R. P. C. Odescalchi (Rome, 1850).

J. H. Pollen.

O DeuB Ego Amo Te, the first line of two Latin lyrics sometimes attributed to St. Francis Xavier, but of uncertain date and authorship. The one whose first stanza runs: —

O Deus ego amo te.

Nam prior tu amasti me;

En libertate privo me

Ut sponte vinctus sequar te, has four additional stanzas in similar rhythm, the last three being apparently a paraphrase of part of a prayer in the "Contemplatio ad amorem spiritualem in nobis excitandum " of St. Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises: "Take, O Lord, my entire liberty . . what- ever I have or possess you have bestowed on me; back to thee I give it all, and to the rule of thy will deliver it absolutely. Give me only thy love and thy grace and I am rich enough; nor do I ask anything more." The hymn (probably first printed in the "Symphonia Si- renum', Cologne, 1695) received in Zabuesnig's "KatholischeKirchengesange" (Augsburg, 1822), the title of "The Desire of St. Ignatius". Father Cas- wall's beautiful version appeared in his "Masque of