[4] According to records written in the 13th century by members of the noble Van Rode family, her father wanted to arrange a marriage for her.

After a pilgrimage to Rome and Monte Sant'Angelo sul Gargano, Oda prayed in various villages in the Netherlands and Belgium and finally settled in Venray, only to be repeatedly disturbed by magpies.

[2] In order to protect her humble shelter from the wind, hail, rain and snow and to hide it from the view of the world, Oda planted some bushes.

Saint Oda is usually depicted wearing a long blue gown with one shoulder bare and carying a staff or a book (symbolic of her cured blindness).

Pilgrims visited Saint Oda for relief of sore eyes and other illnesses related to the head.