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See also:ODILIENBERO, or OTTILIENBERG (called Allitona in the 8th See also:century) , a See also:peak of the See also:Vosges Mountains in See also:Germany, in the imperial See also:province of See also:Alsace-See also:Lorraine, immediately W. of the See also:town of See also:Barr. Its See also:crest (2500 ft.) is surmounted by the ruins of the See also:ancient See also:Roman See also:wall, the Heidenmauer, and by the See also:convent and See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Odilia, or Ottilia, the See also:patron See also:saint of Alsace, whose remains See also:rest within. It is thus the See also:object of frequent pilgrimages. The convent is said to have been founded by See also:Duke Eticho I., in See also:honour of his daughter St Odilia, about the end of the 7th century, and it is certain that it existed at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Charlemagne. Destroyed during the See also:wars of the See also:middle ages, it was rebuilt by the Premonstrants at the beginning of the 17th century, and was acquired later by the See also:bishop of See also:Strassburg, who restored the See also:building and the adjoining church, in 1853. Since 1899 the convent has contained a museum of antiquities.
See. Reinhard, Le Mont Ste 'Odile (Strassburg, 1888) ; Pfister, Le Duche merovingien d'Alsace et la legende de Sainte Odile (See also:Nancy, 1892) ; and R. Forrer, Der Odilienberg (Strassburg, 1899).
End of Article: ODILIENBERO, or OTTILIENBERG (called Allitona in the 8th century)
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