Saint Odilia
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- Also known as
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Adilia;
Odile;
Odilia;
Othilia;
Ottilia
- Memorial
- 13 December
- Profile
- Born blind to the family of Alsatian Lord Aldaric and Bereswinda who put her out because of her disability.
Rather that having her killed, she was given to a peasant family.
Taken in by a convent at age twelve, she gained her sight upon being touched by chrism during her baptism by Saint Erhard of Regensburg.
Her brother wanted her back for use in an arranged marriage; when he heard of his son's machinations and Odilia's miraculous healing, her father was so angry that he struck and killed the brother.
Odilia she fled back to the convent to escape the marriage, and her family gave up the idea.
She joined the abbey, and eventually became abbess.
Founded the Odilienberg monastery at Niedermunster.
- Born
- c.660 at Oberheim in the Vosges Mountains
- Died
- 13 December 720 at Niedermunster;
buried in a chapel near the convent church on the Odilienberg
- Patronage
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Alsace,
eye disease,
eye problems
- Representation
- woman with a book on which are two eyes
- Images
- Gallery of images of Saint Odilia [2 images, 51 kb]
- Additional Information
- Catholic Encyclopedia
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