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Pope Urban was a Frenchman named Odo of Lagery. He studied at Reims and became a monk at Cluny. He went to Rome, in the beginning of the reign of St. Gregory VII. The pope kept him there, making him cardinal and bishop of Ostia. When he was elected pope, Urban pursued the cause of reform. He also made him cardinal and bishop of Ostia. When he was elected pope, Urban pursued the cause of reform, he began to work in the lands that recognized him, first. Urban's method was to travel everywhere he could, gathering great councils of the whole population, to advertise and gain popularity for the reforms. At Clermont, Urban preached a sermon that caused the First Crusade. Without Urban's work, most of Gregory's reform movement would probably have been useless. He was succeeded by Paschal II. Urban was beautified in 1881
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