Mt.-Ste.-Odile (Chapelle des larmes) - Barr (Alsace), France 1020767rt
On the ceiling, a mosaic of Christ surrounded by personifications of ten virtues (obedience, abstinence, compassion, justice, poverty, sobriety, generosity, chastity, penitence and confession).
Below it are portrayals of Pope Leo IX - from nearby Eguisheim - who canonised Odile around 1050; and St. Eugénie, Odile's niece, who became the second abbesse of the convent following her aunt's death.
Mt.-Ste.-Odile (Chapelle des larmes) - Barr (Alsace), France 1020767rt
On the ceiling, a mosaic of Christ surrounded by personifications of ten virtues (obedience, abstinence, compassion, justice, poverty, sobriety, generosity, chastity, penitence and confession).
Below it are portrayals of Pope Leo IX - from nearby Eguisheim - who canonised Odile around 1050; and St. Eugénie, Odile's niece, who became the second abbesse of the convent following her aunt's death.