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  Patron Saints Index: Saint Gall
Illness forced Gall to leave Columbanus's party in 612, though some say the leader suspected Gall of malingering, and imposed a penance on him, which Gall faithfully observed, of not celebrating Mass during Columba's life.
Saint Gall Monastery occupied this site, becoming a center of literature, the arts, and music, though legend to the contrary, Saint Gall did not found it.
Reportedly was the offered the abbacy of Luxeuil on the death of Saint Eustace but declined, and remained a hermit.
www.catholicforum.com /saints/saintg13.htm   (231 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Gall
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.
The saint is ordinarily represented with a bear; for a legend, recorded in the Lives, relates that one night, at the command of the saint, one of these animals brought wood to feed the fire which Gall and his companions had kindled in the desert.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06346b.htm   (586 words)

  
 De Saint George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Saint George is a county in Trinidad and Tobago.
Saint George is known as the 'dragon slayer' and his pictures show him as a brave knight in...
Saint George was the Patron Saint of England, and of the Knights of...
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 Saint Gall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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.
One night, at the command of the saint, a thoughtful bear brought wood to feed the fire which Gall and his companions had kindled in the forest, a truly druidical myth.
saint-gall.ask.dyndns.dk   (312 words)

  
 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of October 16   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Saint Gall studied at Bangor under Saints Comgall and Columban(us), became versed in Scripture, and was ordained.
Gall is venerated as an apostle of Switzerland and as the patron of geese and poultry (Roeder).
Saint Margaret Mary is nearly the antithesis of yesterday's saint, Teresa of Ávila.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1016.htm   (3559 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Saint Gall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The abbots of St. Gall, who also ruled Appenzell, became princes of the Holy Roman Empire in the early 13th cent.
In 1803 the town and the abbot's domains (secularized in 1798) were consolidated as a canton of the Swiss Confederation under Napoleon's Act of Mediation.
A Lenten Meditation from The Agony of Jesus by Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/S/StGall.asp   (406 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - The Carolingian Empire - Charlemagne and His Heirs
According to a 9th century writer known as the Monk of Saint Gall (also called Notker the Stammerer), Charlemagne later discovered another plot against his life.
Reluctant to punish the conspirators, he sent messengers to ask Pepin the Hunchback for advice.
The Monk of Saint Gall: The Life of Charlemagne
www.royalty.nu /history/empires/Carolingian.html   (2984 words)

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