Odile of Alsace
The Odilia (also Odile Odile or Ottilie, * 660 in Alsace or Burgundy; † 720 in the monastery Niedermünster at Mont Sainte-Odile ) was an abbess and is venerated as the patron saint of Alsace and of sight. The name Odilia is a minor form of Ottilie and is derived from the Old High German. " Ot " means as much as genetic or possession.
Legend
Her legend is mainly based on a biography, which was created in the 10th century. According to this narrative Odilia was on the High Castle (municipality Obernai, Obernai dt ) born. She was the daughter of the Duke Eticho (also Athich, Attich, Adalrich or Adalricus ) and his wife Bersinda (also called Bethsvinda or Bereswinde ) and was blind. For this reason, her father wanted her to kill; the mother saved her by giving the child to a monastery. Probably it is the monastery of Baume- les -Dames east of Besançon. When she was baptized at the age of twelve years of Erhard of Regensburg, she received the eyesight. She returned to her parents, but had to flee from her father and hide in a cave again. This cave is located, depending on the source, either in Arlesheim (south of Basel ) or in Musbachtal in Freiburg im Breisgau. In both places, a worship until at least the 15th century observed. They later reconciled with her father, her a possession on the High Castle in Alsace - the later Mont Sainte-Odile (French: Mont Ste. -Odile ) - was providing, where they founded a monastery 690. Im also founded their monastery Niedermünster at the foot of Mont Sainte-Odile she died around 720 Her grave is located on the Mont Sainte-Odile. Odile is the most important pilgrimage site of Alsace; the local source is considered helpful in eye disorders.
Historical Biography
Historically attested is the donation of the monastery High Castle by Duke Eticho to his daughter Odile. However, is questionable her birth ( according to the legend on the Mount Sainte-Odile in Obernai), because her father was not witnessed by the Alsace before 673 as Duke, but had possessions in Dijon. The stay in the monastery of Baume- les -Dames during their childhood / adolescence and baptism by Erhard of Regensburg seem credible.
Worship
The Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Memorial of Saint Odilia is the 13th of December.
At the following places it is especially revered:
- Entire Alsace: patron saint and patron of the sick and the blind eyes
- In Freiburg im Breisgau, at the end of the Musbachtales is since 1300 one of the hl. Odilia chapel dedicated. The present church of St. Ottilia was built in 1503. The church was built over a spring whose water containing radon is awarded relief for eye diseases and for visitors in a cave is still accessible today.
- Dillingen / Saar, patron saint of the city; The present city was in the Middle Ages the monastery on Mount Sainte-Odile in Alsace.
- Arlesheim (Canton Basel-Landschaft ), patron saint of the village
- Dormagen - Gohr with the parish church of St. Odilia, patron saint of the village. Annually in Odilien octave. The parish is in the possession of a relic of the saint.
- The abbey church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Wuppertal- Beyenburg, standing on the Beyenberg next to the last of the monasteries of the Order of the Cross in the Rhineland and Westphalia, came in 1964 in the possession of relics of the saints. The same has been transferred in a solemn procession there.
- Abbey of St. Ottilia
- Benedictine Congregation of St. Ottilia
- Sanctuary of the Bavarian hamlet Taing at Erding. There, a relic is worshiped by her
- Sanctuary Möschenfeld east of Munich: comprehensive picture of their life cycle
- Sanctuary Kollmitzberg, Lower Austria: patronage and " Ottilie water "
- Ottilie church in the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd is dedicated at least since 1411 Odilia and ridden a place of pilgrimage, especially for ophthalmic diseases, so there should have been cured after a visit of severe eye disease of Bishop Paul Wilhelm von Keppler.
- Chapel " to Saint Odile " in the blank board "harmony" in Unterdambach at St. Christophen, Lower Austria
- St. Ulrich in the Upper Swabian Amendingen, there Ottilie statue from an abandoned chapel Ottilie
- Saint of the Catholic Church in Ginolfs, community Oberelsbach, Rhön.
- In the district Godsheide the Belgian city of Hasselt
- In the district of Sint Odiliënberg the Dutch municipality Roerdalen (St. Wiro Basilica, St. Plechelmus and St. Otgerus )
- Ottilie chapel in Plochingen, built in 1328 on a former Celtic source sanctuary, whose water was attributed to the alleviation and cure of eye ailments
- Ottilie chapel in Rechtmehring, below the Sanctuary of St. Mary in high-rise.
- Ottilie chapel in Horb, built in 1431 on a hill above the old town
- St. Ottilie Church in Randegg a district of Gottmadingen