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==The origin of the name 'Sint-Oedenrode'==

According to legend, Sint-Oedenrode owes its name to [[Saint Oda]]. 
The saga goes as follows:
This woman was a mythical blind-born [[Scotland|Scottish]], possibly [[Irish people|Irish]], daughter of king [[Eugenius VII]], who around the year 700, along with a servant was sent on a pilgrimage on the mainland by her father. 
Oda's blindness was miraculously cured after she visited the tomb of Saint [[Lambert of Maastricht]] in [[Liège]]. She decided she wanted to devote her life to the Christian God as a nun. She returned to her father who had decided a husband for her. Oda did not wish to marry as was her father's wish. In a desperate attempt to not marry, she decided to flee to the mainland. She started to travel from one place to another, wherever she could find silence for worshipping. Her worship was repeatedly disrupted by [[Eurasian magpie|magpies]], and she fled from the birds.
Eventually she arrived in [[Toxandria]] ([[Austrasia]]) in a little settlement called Rode (old Dutch word for a man-made open place in the woods), where the villagers built her a hut on the heath and she settled there as a [[hermit]]. After she died in 726 A.D. the villagers were getting pilgrims from the entire region, and started to call the place Sint-Oda's-Rode, which became Sint-Oedenrode in present-day speaking.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://g-geschiedenis.eu/2012/11/27/27-november-oda-van-sint-oedenrode/|title=27 november – Oda van Sint-Oedenrode &#124; G/Geschiedenis}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Oda|title=Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland|date=September 17, 2019|website=resources.huygens.knaw.nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.schutterijstoda.com/|title=ﾘﾙｼﾞｭﾘｶﾊﾞﾘｨｴｯｾﾝｽは効果なし？【口コミ暴露】楽天Amazonは販売店としてダメ|website=www.schutterijstoda.com}}</ref>