Two Slide Shows of Saint Odilia

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St. Odilia, painted wood sculpture, 15th century, possibly Flemish, shown in the state it was before restoration, 40cm high, BOA Museum. Othielie, wood from landscape around the Rhine, Germany, beginning of 16th century Holy Abbess Ottilie with Reading Stones, Ludwig Konraiter, Stifsmuseum des Pramonst, Near Innsbrook, Austria, 1485-1490 Family Tree of St. Odilia, Lives of the Saints, S Baring-Gould, Appendix Vol. 16 Modern French postcard Monte Sainte Odilia (Alsace- eastern France), from a postcard Saint Odilia, Virgin and Abbess Ottilia, painted lace Exvoto, 1773, Collection Aangenendt wood sculpture, 17th century

Sainte Odile prays for us, Van Latham Collection Ottilie, 20th century, Van Latham CollectionBack of Ottilie, 20th century, Van Latham Collection front, 2 examples, Van Latham Collection Back of 2 examples, Van Latham Collectionfront, 2 examples, Van Latham Collectionprayers on the back, left one dated July 1899 front, 2 examples, Van Latham Collection front, 2 examples; on the right, Patron of Alsace, French, with wishes for you, Van Latham CollectionBack of 2 examples; on the right, Patron of Alsace, French, with wishes for you, dated July 1899    

Saint Erhard, who baptized Odilia and then she could see again. He often is also portrayed with eyes. Back of Statue of Saint Odile above the altar left side of the church convent, Van Latham CollectionExvoto, Saint Ottilie, 1783Odilienberg, Sarcophagus of the Sacred Odilia in the shrine, photo by Stefan Kampf 2000 Sainte Odila, from Wikipedia Mont Saint Odile, Ottrott, France

 

All the objects below are from the Aangenendt Collection

 

Ex Voto, wooden panel, framed, S.Otilia, Germany, 1818 Statue of Saint Odile from Alsace, France, lime wood, Bavarian Germany, original polychrome colors, dressed with a veil and under her habit her shoes are visible. In her left hand the staff with the curl inside means power (a bishop has the curl outside which means head of a diocese). 18th century, 51 cm high Saint Odile, lime wood, original colors, represented sitting in a habit of a convent, South Germany, first part of 18th century (1740-1750,) height 63 cm Saint Odile, carved from pinewood, height 27.5 cm, dressed in a habit and veil, polychrome painting with 23 carat gold leaf, sculptor Andrea Haimerl, on the backside a red lack seal with the text: crucifix carver from Bodenmais, 1988 Saint Odile paper lace holy card (also known as Carnivet), early 18th century, Collection Aangenendt. These were mostly made in a convent and are considered very rare Saint Ottilie, simple folk art, made of black material and paper and also cut from a holy card, then everything has been glued on a light brown background paper. Ottilie has been placed between dried flowers and leaves, probably made in a convent, circa 1920-1930 Enamel plaquette, copper frame, signed "W" in the right lower corner, Egino Weinert (famous artist from Cologne), 1994 Reverse painting on hand-blown glass (a special technique known since antiquity and typical of the Black Forest), made by artist Friedbert Andernach, 1999, frame is from the end of 19th century. First the outside lines are drawn, filled with paint and the art is then painted in reverse on the back side of the glass. Copperplate Engraving by Franz Xavier Schoenbaechler (1719 - ), It shows a scene out of the life of Saint Odile, one of the miracles. One day Odile walked from the valley back, and on the way back to the convent she met a blind man near a rock, she hits the rock with her scepter and water comes out. With this water she washes the eyes of the man and suddenly he can see. On the top left notice two angels have a roll with two eyes on it Reverse glass painting, Saint Odile is represented as a young abbess with scepter

 Reverse glass painting, primitive folk art, Saint Odile has let come up a source of water by means of her scepter, and with this water she will cure a blind man, modern reproduction of a painting from the 2nd half 19th century Reverse glass painting, a very uncommon representation of Saint Odile, looking more like Saint Lucy, but then her attributes are wrong, modern. The cock turns up on 15th or 16th century representations. The cock surely has a meaning for getting back the sight. It is a preacher of the decreasing of the nightly darkness and bringing in the daylight, whose crowing awakens people from their sleep and then they can see again Porcelain statue, milk white and unglazed, French, height 25.5 cm, Odile has been placed on a pedestal which reads: Ste Odile, signed n the bottom L&M (from Leboeuf et Milliet in the French village Creil – this business worked until 1841) Copperplate engraving, the representation is actually Saint Lucia with her attributes Palm ?, plate with eyes, the clothes and portrait as a young woman…not as an older abbess, 18th century Bronze plaque of St. Odile, signed at the bottom with the letter "W" representing he German artist Egino Weinert, modern Wood engraving, after a drawing by Hans Burgkmair (c 1475- 1531), Engraving by Leonard Beck (c. 1480-1542), German. Near her feet is a crown and at the side an angel with a coat of arms Copperplate engraving, Bishop Erhard is baptizing young Odile, signed Gottlieb Wolfgang, about 1740-1760, on the right side a short story about the life of Odile, printed in Old German Saint Odile from wax, small representation, placed under a glass dome, folk art from South Germany or Austria, only 10 – 12 cm high, perhaps the work of nuns Postage stamp from Saargebiet, France, 1930 (Xmas 1929). Saargebiet has been a part of Germany since 1957 Odile made from stone, 21.5 cm, colored by hand, signed “Il Delaroch”, France, about 1975

 Holy Card of Odile, primitive and colored by hand in an oval frame, German spoken country, end 17th century Engraving of Saint Odile, size 12x15 cm, it shows Saint Odile on her death bed about 1725 A very special Double Odile engraving, each representation 8.2x13.2 cm, about 1800 DETAIL Left: shows the source with Odile above in habit, and rule book with one eye on it. Before the source a woman and man are kneeling maybe to get cured; DETAIL Right: a valley and mountain with letters A to F, that are the most important places. A: the convent, B: the hermitage, C: the inn, D: the new road, E: the old road, F: the summit of the mountain A higher detailed picture of this engraving

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