Note 962 — Chapter IX · THE CLERGY AND MONKS.

Arnold died in 904, but his reforms began twenty years earlier. However, between the years 912 and 942, Berno, and his still more celebrated successor Odo, abbots of Cluny, had introduced a reform of the Benedictine rule in a great number of monasteries. Flodoardus calls Odo: “Dominus Odo, venerabilis abbas, multorum restaurator monasteriorum, sanctaeque Regulae reparator.” See Pagi. Baron, ad an. 942. This example was not lost upon Dúnstán.