 Saint Odile in Dompeter - Alsace Saint Odile (or Odilia) (Obernai, Dept. Bas-Rhin, c. 662 – c. 720 at Mount Ste. Odile) was the daughter of Etichon (Athich), Duke of Alsace. She was born blind. As her father did not want her because she was a girl, her mother Bethswinda had her brought to Palma (perhaps present day Baume-les-Dames in Burgundy) where she was raised. Image:Sainte Odile - Dompeter. ...
Image:Sainte Odile - Dompeter. ...
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Obernai (French: ; Alsatian: Owernah; German: ) is a town and commune in Alsace, France. ...
Bas-Rhin is a département of France. ...
Adalrich (died after 683), also known as Eticho,[1] was the Duke of Alsace, the founder of the family of the Etichonids, and an important and influential figure in the power politic of late seventh-century Austrasia. ...
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Coat of arms of the second Duchy of Burgundy and later of the French province of Burgundy Burgundy (French: ; German: ) is a historic region of France, inhabited in turn by Celts (Gauls), Romans (Gallo-Romans), and various Germanic peoples, most importantly the Burgundians and the Franks; the former gave their...
When she was twelve, the itinerant bishop Erhard of Regensburg was led, by an angel it was said, to Palma where he baptised her Odile (Sol Dei), whereupon she miraculously recovered her sight. Saint Erhard reads Mass Saint Erhard of Ratisbon was bishop of Ratisbon in the 7th century, probably identical with an Abbot Erhard of Ebersheimmunster mentioned in a Merovingian diploma of 684. ...
Regensburg (also Ratisbon, Latin Ratisbona) is a city (population 151. ...
A miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning something wonderful, is a striking interposition of divine intervention by God in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified. ...
Her younger brother Hughes had her brought home again, which enraged Etichon so much that he killed his son. Odile miraculously revived him, and left home again.
She fled across the Rhine to the Musbach valley in Breisgau (present day St. Ottilien), Germany, and hid from her father in a cavern that had opened up to her in Arlesheim near Basel. When he tried to follow her, he was hurt by falling rocks and gave up. It has been suggested that River Rhine Pollution: November 1986 be merged into this article or section. ...
Breisgau is the name of a landscape in southwest Germany, placed between the river Rhine and the foothills of the Black Forest near Freiburg im Breisgau in the state of Baden-Württemberg. ...
Arlesheim is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim, in the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland. ...
Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: , French: , Italian: ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest urban area as of 2003). ...
When Etichon fell ill, Odile returned to nurse him. He finally gave up resisting his headstrong daughter and founded the Augustine monastery of Mont Ste. Odile in the Hochwald (Hohwald), Bas-Rhin, where Odile became abbess and where Etichon was later buried. Some years later Odile was shown the site of Niedermünster at the foot of the mountain by St. John the Baptist in a vision and founded a second monastery there, including a hospital. Here, the head and an arm of St. Lazarus of Marseille were displayed but later transferred to Andlau. The buildings of the Niedermünster burned down in 1542, but the local well is still said to cure eye diseases. Monastery of St. ...
Andlau is a commune in the French département of Bas-Rhin. ...
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Ste. Odile died about 720 at the convent of Niedermünster. At the insistent prayers of her sisters she was returned to life, but after describing the beauties of the afterlife to them, she took communion all by herself and died again. She was buried at Ste. Odile.
Ste. Odile was made the Patron saint of Alsace in 1807 by pope Pius VII. Her feast day is 13 December. Odile is the patroness of ocular afflictions and ear diseases; her attribute is a pair of eyes. The larkspur is connected to St. Odile as well and is believed to cure eye diseases in popular medicine and superstition. Saint Quentin is the patron saint of locksmiths and is also invoked against coughs and sneezes. ...
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Year 1807 (MDCCCVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Pius VII, né Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti, (August 14, 1740 - August 20, 1823) was Pope from March 14, 1800 to August 20, 1823. ...
December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Species Delphinium glaucum Delphinium consolida Delphinium bakeri Others Larkspur (Delphinium glaucum) is a tall (4 to 6 foot high), robust plant. ...
 Iron age 'pagan wall' (Mur Païen) at Mount Ste. Odile, Alsace Iorn age heathen wall, Ste. ...
Mont Sainte-Odile Mont Sainte-Odile, the holy mountain of Alsace, became an important place for pilgrimages. There are remains of an Iron Age hillfort, called 'pagan wall' (Mur Païen) on the mountain as well. It is over 10 km long and in parts still up to 3 m high. The wall was rebuilt in Roman times. Monastry at Mont Sainte-Odile Mont Sainte-Odile (German: Odilienberg) is a peak of the Vosges Mountains in Alsace in France. ...
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Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ...
The term hill fort is commonly used by archeologists to describe fortified enclosures located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. ...
The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I had the church and monastery rebuilt. The Abbess Relindis established a school for the daughters of ruling families here. Herrad of Landsberg (1167-1195), another abbess at Ste. Odile, was the author of an important theological work called the Hortus Deliciarum (Paradiesgarten). Frederick Barbarossa in a 13th century chronicle. ...
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Odile in Swan Lake Ballet Odile is also a character in the ballet Swan Lake. She impersonates Odette, the Swan Queen by orders of her evil wizard father Von Rothbart so Siegfried will break his promise to Odette and will have to sacrifice her life now The Valse des cygnes from Act II of the Ivanov/Petipa edition of Swan Lake. ...
Von Rothbart is the villain in the Russian ballet Swan Lake; he is hardly ever seen in human form as he appears as an evil bird for most of the ballet. ...
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