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St. Odilia
Patroness of Alsace, born at the end of the seventh century; died about 720.
According to a trustworthy statement, apparently taken from an earlier life, she
was the daughter of the Frankish lord Adalrich (Aticus, Etik) and his wife
Bereswinda, who had large estates in Alsace. She founded the convent of
Hohenburg (Odilienberg) in Alsace, to which Charlemagne granted immunity,
confirmed 9 March, 837 by Louis the Pious who endowed the foundation
(Böhmer-Muhlbacher, Regesta Imperii
, I, 866, 933). A tenth-century Vita
has
been preserved, written at the close of the century. According to this narrative
she was born blind, miraculously receiving her sight at baptism. A shorter text,
probably independent of this, is contained in a manuscript of the early eleventh
century. Internal evidences point to an original eighth-century biography. A
further Vita
, that J. Vignier claimed to have discovered, has been proved to
be a forgery by this historian. Her feast is celebrated 13 December; her grave
is in a chapel near the convent church on the Odilienberg. She is represented
with a book on which lie two eyes.
PFISTER, La vie de Ste Odile in Anal. Boll., XIII (1894), 5-3; SEPET, Observations sur la legende de Ste Odile in Bibliotheqe de l'ecole des Chartes, LXIII (1902), 517-36; HAVET, Vignier: Vie de Ste Odile in OE'uvres de Julien Havet, I (Paris, 196), 72-8; POTTHAST, Bibliotheca historica medii aevi, II, 1497 sq., Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, ed. BOLL., II, 906 sq.; PFISTER, le duche merovingien d'Alsace et la vie de Ste Odile (Paris and Nancy, 1892); WINTERED, Hist. de Ste Odile ou l'Alsace chretienne au VII et VIII siecles (5th ed. Gebweiler, 1895); WELSCHINGER, Ste Odile in Les Saints (Paris, 1901); WEHRMEISTER, Die hl. Odilia, ihre Legende u. ihre Verehrung (Augsburg, 1902).
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