Saint Odile (c. 660-720), founder and abbess of the monastery of Hohenbourg, on what is now Mount Saint Odile. Saint Erhard, bishop of Regensburg, had a vision ordering him to go to the monastery of Palma and baptise a young girl who had been blind from birth. As soon as she was anointed with the Holy Chrism, she was able to see and was given the name Odile. Cured of her blindness, Odile was able, in accordance with the Rule of Saint Benedict, to devote herself entirely to prayer, study and works of charity. Pope Leo IX canonised her in 1049 and Pope Pius XII named her Patron Saint of Alsace in 1946.