It is one of the few chapels in the department dedicated to the great Alsatian saint. The spring found there was venerated by our Celtic ancestors as a healing goddess; its water was long known to cure eye diseases. After the Druid high priests worshipped Sirona, Mithra, and other goddesses there, an Irish monk likely settled in this Thebaid, creating a hermitage. In 1267, the village's lord, Guillaume de Deneuvre-Blamont (54), had a chapel dedicated to Saint Luce and Saint Odile built there in honor of his wife, Odile de Hénamenil. The latter was born around 700, the daughter of Count Aldaric of Alsace, from whom the line of Dukes of Lorraine descended. Her father had wanted to kill her because she was born blind, her mother saved her and entrusted her to a convent where she miraculously recovered. Her father, a convert, offered her the castle of Hohenburg, today Mount St. Odile, where she founded a convent and became the patron saint of Alsace.
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