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	Saint Gall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Abbey of St. Gall", (not from the name of its founder and first abbot, but of the saint who had lived in this place and whose relics were honoured there) the monastery and especially its celebrated scriptorium played an illustrious part in Catholic and intellectual history until it was secularized in 1798.
		After his death a small church was erected which developed into the Abbey of St. Gall, the nucleus of the Canton of St. Gallen in eastern Switzerland the first abbot of which was Saint Otmar.
		Gall delivered Fridiburga from the demon by which she was possessed; she was the betrothed of Sigebert II, King of the Franks, who granted to the saint an estate near Arbon, which belonged to the royal treasury, that he might found a monastery there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Gall (409 words)

	Abbey of St. Gall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Convent of St. Gall (abbey and library) was nominated in 1983 as UNESCO World Heritage, as it was from the 8th century to its secularization in 1805, one of the most important monasteries in Europe.
		However, the monastery depicted in the Plan was not St. Gall, but an ideal of what a well-designed and well-supplied monastery should have, as envisioned by one of the synods held at Aachen for the reform of monasticism in the Frankish empire during the early years of emperor Louis the Pious (between 814 and 817).
		The library at St. Gall is recognised to be one of the richest and oldest libraries in the world (it disposes of the most comprehensive collections of books of the early Middle Age in the german part of Europe).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abbey_of_St._Gall (497 words)

	Ekkehard
		He is the last of the St. Gall Ekkehards, and flourished towards the end of the twelfth, and the beginning of the thirteenth, century.
		The duchess was wont occasionally to visit St. Gall, and eventually (973) asked for and obtained the services of Ekkehard as her tutor in the reading of the Latin classics.
		About 1214 he wrote a life of St. Notker Balbulus, a learned monk of St. Gall, who lived towards the end of the ninth, and the beginning of the tenth, century (Acta SS., April, I, 579), from which work we gather that its author was versed in ecclesiastical music.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/ekkehard.html (1254 words)

	Abbey
		The buildings of a Benedictine abbey were uniformly arranged after one plan, modified where necessary (as at Durham and Worcester, where the monasteries stand close to the steep bank of a river), to accommodate the arrangement to local circumstances.
		The "Bright Valley," Clara Vallis of St Bernard, was known as the "Valley of Wormwood," infamous as a den of robbers.
		It was adorned with the portraits of the chief benefactors of the abbey, and with Scriptural subjects.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/ABB/abbey.html (10150 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Gall
		Called "Abbey of St. Gall", not from the name of its founder and first abbot, but of the saint who had lived in this place and whose relics were honoured there, the monastery played an illustrious part in history for more than a thousand years.
		Gall delivered from the demon by which she was possessed Fridiburga, the daughter of Cunzo and the betrothed of Sigebert, King of the Franks; the latter, through gratitude, granted to the saint an estate near Arbon, which belonged to the royal treasury, that he might found a monastery there.
		Gall also declined the abbatial dignity of Luxeuil, which was offered him by the monks of the monastery after the death of St. Eustace.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06346b.htm (586 words)

	Werner Wunderlich: St Gall: Tradition, Topicality of its Cultural Memory, Media Culture
		The Culture of the Abbey of St Gall (Stuttgart, Zurich: Belser, 1991).
		Nevertheless, St Gall's various landscapes and its political and administrative districts may functionally, i.e., from the points of view of its economy, public-transport system, settlement and civil-engineering policies, and tourism, be regarded as part of the region of Lake Constance: the old cultural region differentiated by its Alemmanic population and dialects from surrounding territories.
		In 1798, the town-republic of St Gall was obliged to renounce its sovereignty and became the capital of the Canton of Säntis, one of two founded in Eastern Switzerland by decree, the other being that of Linth.
	www.kwa.unisg.ch /wunderlich/st_gallen.html (9859 words)

	Medieval Jewelry
		-century plan of an ideal monastery, preserved in the Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland, includes rooms for the aurifices, goldsmiths, in the annex to the main workshop, next to the blacksmiths and fullers.
		The famous Benedictine abbey of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England—where Matthew Paris, historian, illuminator, and goldsmith, was a monk in the thirteenth century—also had a goldsmiths’ workshop from the twelfth century.
		Their shops were situated in busy areas (in London, around Cheapside, east of St. Paul’s cathedral), often on bridges (the Grand-Pont in Paris and the Ponte Vecchio in Florence), so as to be in the main line of traffic.
	www.ceu.hu /medstud/manual/SRM/technology.htm (2172 words)

	List of abbeys and priories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abbey of St Maurice in Saint-Maurice-en-Valais (Roman Agaunum)
		List of abbeys and priories is a link list for any abbey or priory.
		Abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_abbeys_and_priories (96 words)

	Ulrich of Augsburg - RecipeFacts
		Saint Ulrich (Uodalric, Odalrici) of Augsburg was born in 890 (-973) at or near Augsburg and studied at the monastery of St. Gall.
		Later the St. Ulrich and Afra church was built in the same spot.
		After he died in 973 he was buried at the St. Afra church in Augsburg.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Ulrich_of_Augsburg (255 words)

	Rorschach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Municipalities of the canton of St. Gallen
		Rorschach is a city in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, on Lake Constance.
		As of 2003 it had a population of 9000 (approx.) and a surface of 1.78 km².
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rorschach (185 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abbey of St. Gall
		The abbey and town were rebuilt and fortified, and throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries St. Gall maintained its place in the front rank of monastic establishments.
		In 1602, when the Swiss congregation of the Order of St. Benedict was formed, the Abbey of St. Gall took precedence as the first house of the congregation, and many of its abbots subsequently held the office of president.
		The other schools of the abbey — for the younger monks and for lay scholars attracted thither by the fame of the monastic professors — were founded as early as the ninth century, for the well-known, but unrealized plan of 820 provides separate accommodation for both schools.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06347a.htm (1221 words)

	St. Gall
		Gall was a pioneer of Swiss Christianity; he did not, however, found the abbey which bears his name, which arose on the site of his hermitage about a century later – the abbey was dissolved in 1805, but the church remains as a cathedral.
		Gall seems to have been a missionary of distinction; he was offered a Swiss bishopric and the abbacy of Luxeuil when a vacancy arose, but refused both offices, remaining what he had been: part-hermit, part-travelling preacher.
		Gall was an Irishman from Leinster, born in the latter part of the 6th.
	www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/st_gall.htm (247 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: The Monk of Saint Gall: The Life of Charlemagne, 883/4
		Charles is known to have expressed regret either at the fact or the manner of the presentation of the imperial crown; and the Monk of St. Gall is not so wide of the point as usual in the account he gives of the causes of his hesitation.
		St. Pancras is one of the saints given by the persecution of the Emperor Diocletian to the calendar of the Church.
		The Persians of the ninth century are by the Monk identified with the Persians of the period of Marathon and Salamis.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/stgall-charlemagne.html (15415 words)

	Churches and Chapels: The Abbey Church of St. Gall - NGA
		The Abbey of Saint Gall in Switzerland was one of the most powerful monasteries in Europe from its foundation in the eighth century until its dissolution in 1805.
		Churches and Chapels: The Abbey Church of St. Gall - NGA
		The Abbey Church of Saint Gall, which essentially conforms to Loser's model, is a long rectangle with a large rotunda set in the center.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/2000/baroque/indepth3.htm (183 words)

	St. Gallen - TheBestLinks.com - Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Abbey of St. Gall, ...
		Gallen, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Abbey of St. Gall...
		The St. Gallen University is in the foreground, the Abbey of St. Gall is visible above
		Gallen (Sankt Gallen; French Saint-Gall) is the capital of the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
	www.thebestlinks.com /St._Gallen.html (170 words)

	Abbey of St Gall
		In 1847 it was re-arranged and St Gall became a Diocese of its own: the abbey church became a cathedral and part of the monastic buildings assigned as the bishop's palace.
		The monks at St Gallen, over the years, had to protect themselves against the bishop of Constance who refused to recognise the exemptions and other privileges that had been granted to the abbey.
		It was named after Gallus, an Irishman who was a disciple of St Columbanus.
	www.wwgenealogy.com /Stgall_en.htm (597 words)

	St. Gall - TheBestLinks.com - Switzerland, Abbey of St. Gall, Canton of St. Gallen, Saint Gall, ...
		Gall, Switzerland, Abbey of St. Gall, Canton of St. Gallen, Saint Gall...
		Gall - TheBestLinks.com - Switzerland, Abbey of St. Gall, Canton of St. Gallen, Saint Gall,...
		the Abbey of St. Gall, named after him,
	www.thebestlinks.com /St._Gall.html (132 words)

	Englisch
		The survival of such a rich deposit as the Archives of St. Gall owes much to the care bestowed on the Archives all through the history of the Abbey, and to its location in an area which was well protected from fire and was not subject to great humidity.
		The Archives of the Abbey of St. Gall (Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen) are owned jointly by the Canton of St. Gall and the Catholic community of the Canton, and contains the legal and administrative records of the former Abbey of St. Gall from about 720 A.D. to its secularization in 1805.
		For the first thousand years of Christianity, a period which generally is not well-documented, the sources in the Abbey archives are of significance not only for Eastern Switzerland and the immediate vicinity of the Abbey, but also for Zürich, Aargau, Basel, Bern, Graubünden, Vorarlberg, Alsace and Southern Germany.
	www.sg.ch /kultur/stiftsarchiv/informationen/englisch.html (446 words)

	The Monastery of St. Gall
		In the year 937 A.D., when threatened by the Huns, much St. Gall's library's manuscripts were moved to the neighboring abbey of Riechneau.
		It remained an abbey until the early 1800s, when portions of it were sectioned off to house the bishop and the rest of the diocese.
		The abbey as it stands today, was erected on the plot of land where he spent his last days of life.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /Blair/Courses/MUSL242/stgall~1.htm (298 words)

	HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
		The Protestants, under the lead of Zwingli, were the aggressors, especially in the confiscation of the rich abbey of St. Gall.
		The abbot of St. Gall regained his convent and heavy damages from the city; Toggenburg had to acknowledge his authority, but a portion of the people remained Reformed.
		He preached and wrote incessantly; he helped the reform movement in every direction; he attended synods at Frauenfeld (May, 1530), at St. Gall (December, 1530), and Toggenburg (April, 1531); he promoted the organization and discipline of the Reformed churches, and developed great activity as an author.
	www.biblestudyguide.org /history/schaff/8_ch05.htm (10495 words)

	Private Charters
		One of the earliest original charters from St Gall, of AD 757, in which one Podal gives various lands in Alsace, along with their appurtenances, to the abbey (St Gall, Stiftsarchiv, Urkunden I.13).
		The amazing library of the famous Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland preserves some early charters recording private donations to the abbey.
		Very few private charters survive in their original form for the early part of the middle ages, although their existence is testified by entries in the cartularies of monasteries which benefited from the grants made.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /word/private1.htm (777 words)

	Conference of St. Gall: The Mother of All Conservation Conferences
		The centenary of the St. Gall meeting was not remembered in the U.S., but the occasion was marked in Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
		Conference of St. Gall: "The Mother of All Conservation Conferences"
		A hundred years ago last September 30, the first international conference on the preservation of manuscripts was held in Saint Gall (Sankt Gallen) in northeast Switzerland, not far from Lake Konstanz.
	palimpsest.stanford.edu /byorg/abbey/an/an22/an22-5/an22-502.html (531 words)

	GSAPP St. Gall Abbey Church, ca. 820
		The unbuilt plan for the utopian abbey of St. Gall is attributed to an anonymous French monk.
		The abbey church and cloister would have stood in a small town in present-day Switzerland.
		A copy based on the medieval plan was erected during the mid-19th century.
	www.arch.columbia.edu /gsap/16341 (45 words)

	MUSL 242: Notker Balbulus and the Sequence
		840-912), a monk of the abbey of St. Gall in eastern Switzerland, was an author, a poet, a theorist, and a composer.
		His abbey was one of the most prominent and influential monasteries in Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries; it's library contained some of the most important sources for the history of music, including the ancient and precious manuscripts of the Gregorian chant.
		Among his works are some accounts of the lives of saints (including that of St. Gall himself); an idealized history of Charlemagne; poems; letters; and a book entitled the Liber hymnorum (Book of Hymns, ca.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /Blair/Courses/MUSL242/notkers.htm (1019 words)

	AllRefer.com - Saint Gall, former Benedictine abbey, Switzerland (Roman Catholic Orders And Missions) - Encyclopedia
		Saint Gall, former Benedictine abbey, at St. Gall, Switzerland.
		Originating in a cell built c.614 by St. Gall, an Irish missionary (see Columban, Saint), it became an abbey under Charles Martel (8th cent.).
		AllRefer.com - Saint Gall, former Benedictine abbey, Switzerland (Roman Catholic Orders And Missions) - Encyclopedia
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/StGallAb.html (222 words)

	7DFB530F69D42B5485256ABD006ECF14
		Running through October 1, the display of models and replicas of the Abbey of St. Gall will be stored, transported and erected in the museum under the supervision of Benjie Facto, Logistics Manager for Crown Relocations Manila.
		This exhibition is brought to Manila with the support of Pro Helvetia, the Arts Council of Switzerland, the Abbey Archives of St. Gall and the Union Bank of Switzerland.
		The Abbey is particularly known for its outstanding works of art, most noteably manuscripts and texts, many of which are featured in the exhibition.
	www.crownrelo.com /crown/Publicit.nsf/(webPressReleases)/7DFB530F69D42B5485256ABD006ECF14 (367 words)

	St Gall (Sankt Gallen) - a Gardens Guide review
		It survived, as a copy, in a Life of St Martin in the St Gall library and was drawn, by Abbot Haito or Reichenau (763-836) for Abbot Gozbert of St Gall.
		The St Gall plan also contains the most famous monastic garden details of the Early Middle Ages.
		: The famous St Gall Plan is 'utopian' in the sense that no large monastery was planned in the Reichenau-St Gall area at that time.
	www.gardenvisit.com /ge/stgall.htm (386 words)

	Bl. Notker Balbulus
		His father and mother sent him, when he was a child, to be educated in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gall, Switzerland.
		The Holy See confirmed this cult of Blessed Notker in 1512 by permitting a Mass to be celebrated in his honor at the Abbey of St. Gall.
		Notker the Stammerer was so much loved by the monks of his abbey that for a long time after his death, they could not speak of him without shedding tears.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id373.htm (492 words)

	The Most Ancient Life of St Gregory the Great
		That volume was found, fittingly, in St Hilda's Priory Library of the Anglican Order of the Holy Paraclete and I thank them both for their hospitality and their encouragement for this work.
		The Pearl Poet, in St Erkenwald, combines this story with others from Bede's History of the English Church and People and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, to create a similar one whose setting is St Paul's Cathedral in London.
		Throughout, scriptural quoations are used and also passages from the writings of St Jerome.
	members.fortunecity.com /umilta/gregory.html (1774 words)

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