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Blessed Odoric Matiussi of Pordenone, or Bl Oderic de Pordenone

January 14

Blessed Odoric of Pordenone was born of noble parents in the year 1265 at Pordenone in Friuli.

He entered the Franciscan Order in the convent of Udine when he was only 15 years old. He felt himself called by God to be a missionary, and so prepared himself for his vocation by a strict life of penance, intimate union with God in solitude, and earnest application to study.

Ordained a priest, Blessed Odoric of Pordenone labored as a zealous and forceful preacher of penance.

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The people came from great distances to hear his sermons and through him to be reconciled to God in the tribunal of penance. But soon his vast field of labor no longer satisfied his burning zeal. He was desirous of winning souls for God in the distant heathen countries and, if God so wished it, even to shed his blood for Christ.

In 1296 he went as a missionary to the Balkan Peninsula, and then to the Mon