Cova Sant Marçà, in Eivissa Island.
And also...not exactly a detail, but a curious geological formation anyway!
Mont Sainte-Odile is a 764-metre-high peak in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace in France. The mountain is named after Saint Odile. It has a nunnery at its top called the Hohenburg Abbey,
The stamp was issued in December 2024. Odile, officially the patron saint of the region since 1946, was the daughter of Duke Adalric and his wife, Ereswinde. The oldest account of her life dates from the 10th century, but she was born in the Merovingian era, around 662. Hoping for a male heir, her father denies the child who, moreover, suffers from blindness. Saved from death by her mother, she was sent to grow up far away in an abbey where Saint Erhard, Irish missionary bishop in Bavaria, following a vision that ordered her to go baptize a young blind girl, made her recover her sight and named her Odile (Daughter of light). Returning to Alsace, with the help of her repented father, she created several religious establishments to welcome the sick and the needy, and died in 720.
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Sent by Fabienne (France).
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Thursday Postcard Hunt
June theme: DETAILS
June theme: DETAILS
- Week 1 - Architectural
- Week 2 - Geological
- Week 3 - Faces
- Week 4 - Tchotchkes, or touristy items
Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!
The Voges is a fascinating area, a surprising number of peaks have structures on the top. It all adds to the interest.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to see, I think.
DeleteBoth are interesting-looking. St. Odile's nunnery was built in a very odd place. Hard to reach, I imagine. I have to look it up....
ReplyDeleteI'd like to visit the place, certainly.
Deleteooh, I do like caves. I'm sure there are some interesting tales surrounding this one.
ReplyDeleteI don't know for the tales, I'm afraid.
DeleteI, like Violet, like caves! I forgot about them for the prompt!
ReplyDeleteI got this postcard last week... just in time! :)
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