Eugenia of Alsace

Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey became a well-known destination for pilgrims.

[4] Eugenia's signature as abbess of Hohenburg (Alsace) appears in a document from 722.

[6] The spirit of the pious founder reigned in these two houses and it was a very edifying spectacle for Lower Alsace to see young virgins from the first families of the country renounce the sweetness of a comfortable and pleasant life to go to devote to the practices of penance.

Eugenia's remains were kept secure there from 735 until 1622 when The Thirty Years War allowed Swedish troops to invade the convent, open her tomb and scatter the bones.

Later, some relics were transferred to the parish church in Willgottheim, Alsace, France.

Monastery and convent atop Mount Odile.