Odile of Alsace, also known as Odilia and Ottilia, born c. 662 - c. 720 at Mont Sainte-Odile), is a saint venerated in the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is a patroness saint of good eyesight and of the region of Alsace.
Saint Odile in Avolsheim, Alsace
A depiction of St. Odile in Mont Sainte-Odile, Alsace, France.
Relief from St James parish church in Abenberg, Germany.
St Odile depicted with St Christopher. Illumination from the Book of Hours of Christopher I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, c. 1519.
Mont Sainte-Odile is a 764-metre-high peak in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace in France, immediately west of Barr. The mountain is named after Saint Odile. It has a monastery/convent at its top called the Hohenburg Abbey, and is notable also for its stone fortifications called "the Pagan Wall." In 1992, Air Inter Flight 148 crashed near this area.
Mont Sainte-Odile and the Monastery
Monastery at Mont Sainte-Odile
Fountain Sainte-Odile
Section of the Pagan Wall