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Icons of St. Odilia, Abbess of
Hohenberg
Feast: Dec. 13
St. Odilia was blind but upon
being baptized at the age of 12 she recovered her sight. She fled in
disguise rather than marry, then transformed the castle of Hohenburg
into a great monastery of women, where soon 130 devout maidens sang
praises to God. At the foot of the citadel she built a hospital for the
poor and a lazzaretto (almshouse). She reposed in the 8th century;
stretched out on a bearskin, she urged her daughters to love God and
His poor folk, then breathed her last. Holy Abbess Odilia, pray
to God for us!
Top Icon: from the Bethanie
Workshop (Atelier) at Gorze.
Next Icon: in wood, of unknown
provenance, apparently with a relic of the saint.
Final Icon: fresco by the hand
of Père Cassien, Greek Old Calendarist Hermitage, Clara, France.
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