
	Where results make sense

Topic: St Gall

Related Topics

Switzerland

Lake Constance

In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Abbey of St. Gall -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Abbey of St. Gall (German, Sankt Gallen) was for many centuries one of the chief (A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict) Benedictine (A monastery ruled by an abbot) abbeys in Europe.
		The library at St. Gall preserved one of the most famous surviving manuscripts of the middle ages, widely known as the "Plan of St. Gall".
		After confusion and suppression and rearrangements St. Gall became the residence of the bishop and held the offices of the Canton, along with holding the remains of the library.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ab/abbey_of_st._gall.htm (542 words)

	Saint Gall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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,
		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/Saint_Gall (404 words)

	ST GALL - LoveToKnow Article on ST GALL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		St Gallen), one of the cantons of northeast Switzerland, on the border of the Austrian province cf the Vorarlberg and of the independent principality of Liechtenstein.
		The town of St Gall owes its origin to St Gall, an Irish hermit, who in 614, built his cell in the thick forest which then covered the site of the future monastery, and lived there, with a few companions, till his death in 640.
		In 1311 St Gall became a free imperial city, and about 1353 the gilds, headed by that of the cloth-weavers, obtained the control of the civic government, while in 1415 it bought its liberty from the German king Sigismund.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/ST_GALL.htm (1962 words)

	St. Gall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The inhabitants are engaged chiefly in the manufacture of lace and cotton embroidery.
		The town is famous for the ancient Benedictine abbey of St. Gall.
		During the Middle Ages, particularly from the eighth to the tenth centuries, the abbey of St. Gall was one of the most famous seats of learning in Europe.
	www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol4/st-gall-switzerland.htm (284 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)

	Untitled
		One of the earliest constructions resembling St. Gall is the church of Hagios Leonidas at Corinth-Lechaion.
		At Centula the altar of St. Dennis is associated with the font, perhaps because of the imperial connection to that saint.
		The altar of St. Clement is omitted at St. Gall and SS Agatha and Agnes are combined at St. Gall at an altar near the south entrance.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/796/10523 (1570 words)

	St. Gall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gall was an Irishman from Leinster, born in the latter part of the 6th.
		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 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.
	www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/st_gall.htm (247 words)

	Orthodoxy’s Western Heritage - Mission in the Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Among his disciples was St. Columban (not to be confused with St. Columba or Columcille of Iona) who ordained St. Gall to the priesthood after the latter had spent some years in ascetic labors.
		When St. Gall delivered her from the chains of the devil, her father was so thankful that he wanted St. Gall to become a bishop, but the Saint declined.
		Gall wept abundantly, for he had never forgotten his spiritual father's love, and until receiving this confirmation of his death, out of obedience he had not celebrated the Divine Liturgy and more than once had refused offers to become bishop.
	www.roca.org /OA/63/63f.htm (3438 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Gregory of Tours: Life of St. Gall
		Gall was a servant of God from his youth up, loving the Lord with his whole heart, and he loved what he knew to be beloved by God.
		And although Gall's father wished to ask for a certain senator's daughter for him, he took a single attendant and went to the monastery at Cournon, six miles from Clermont, and besought the abbot to consent to give him the tonsure.
		Later when the blessed bishop Quintian passed from this world by God's command, the holy Gall was living in Clermont, and the people of the city assembled at the house of the priest Inpetratus, Gall's uncle on his mother's side, lamenting at the bishop's death and asking who should be appointed in his place.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/gregory-stgall.html (1041 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abbey of St. Gall
		In Switzerland, Canton St. Gall, 30 miles southeast of Constance; for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe; founded about 613, and named after Gallus, an Irishman, the disciple and companion of St. Columbanus in his exile from Luxeuil.
		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 town of St. Gall has a population of over 30,000 and is one of the principal manufacturing centres in Switzerland, muslin and cotton being its chief industries.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06347a.htm (1221 words)

	The Monastery of St. Gall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Founded in 612, the monastery of St. Gall was named after the Irish saint, St. Gallus.
		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.
		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.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /Blair/Courses/MUSL242/stgall~1.htm (298 words)

	Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter - Over the moon in the steps of brewing monks
		In the ruins of St. Gall we have the earliest layout of a brewery in Europe
		St Gall, who gave his name to a hilly little town in Switzerland, founded an abbey there that made beer in the 800s and had at least three brewhouses over the centuries.
		The town of St Gallen describes its abbey precinct as one of the world's cultural treasures, perhaps with some justification, but most of today's buildings date from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
	www.beerhunter.com /documents/19133-000845.html (1313 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 38, No. 1 - April 1981 - CRITICSCORNER - 'The Plan of St. Gall'
		The reconstruction was based on the great "Plan of St. Gall," one of the manuscript treasures of the monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland.
		Horn's research confirmed that the Plan was a copy made for Abbot Gozbert (816-836) of St. Gall of an original which must have played a role as blueprint of an ideal monastery at two Carolingian reform synods held at Aachen in 816 and 8l7.
		The original Plan has been lost, but the St. Gall copy, perhaps executed at the famed monastery of Reichenau under the supervision of Bishop Haito of Basle, remains a splendid witness of the achievements of that age.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /apr1981/v38-1-criticscorner3.htm (2552 words)

	OSB. About the Rule of Saint Benedict by Abbot Primate Jerome Theisen OSB.
		Benedict, the founder of the monastery of Monte Cassino, though the historical evidence does not allow a conclusive proof of authorship.
		The autograph copy of RB has been lost but scholars believe that we have a faithful copy that is a few centuries and manuscripts away from the original.
		Augustine (fourth- and fifth-century North Africa), Cassian (fifth-century southern Gaul) stand behind RB and at times are clearly evident in the text.
	www.osb.org /gen/rule.html (1040 words)

	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.
		When he recovered, Gall lived as a hermit on the Steinach River, attracting disciples.
		Legend also says that one night during this period Gall ordered a bear to bring fire wood for his group of hermits - and it did.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintg13.htm (231 words)

	Conference of St. Gall: The Mother of All Conservation Conferences
		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.
		The centenary of the St. Gall meeting was not remembered in the U.S., but the occasion was marked in Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
	palimpsest.stanford.edu /byorg/abbey/an/an22/an22-5/an22-502.html (531 words)

	monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the ninth century, the abbot of St. Gall was contemplating rebuilding his monastery.
		To this end, he asked one of the monks at St. Gall to draw up a plan for future remodeling and reconstruction.
		Your assignment is to study the plan of St. Gall, edited by Lorna Price, which is on reserve in the library.
	userpages.wittenberg.edu /alivingstone/honors300/monastery.html (337 words)

	Churches and Chapels: The Abbey Church of St. Gall - NGA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		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.
		This combination of a centralized and longitudinal ground plan is one of the characteristic features of late baroque churches in the German-speaking areas of Europe.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/2000/baroque/indepth3.htm (183 words)

	Convent of St. Gall - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		This Carolingian convent lies in the Northern Swiss town of St. Gall (Sankt Gallen).
		It was during the abbacy of Gozbert (816-837) that the so-called Golden Age of St. Gall began.
		The center of the town of St. Gall is worth a stroll also.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/conventstgall.html (245 words)

	Welcome to St. Gall School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert Tuzik who resides at St. Gall and works for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
		She also conducts reflection and prayer services for each grade in the school and coordinates the Rainbows program for students experiencing the loss of a parent or loved one.
		Sister Erica Jordan, OP, has been principal at St. Gall since 1997 and is a member of the Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation.
	www.stgallschool.com /history.html (484 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.).
		It gained large landholdings and acquired universal fame as a center of learning in the early Middle Ages.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/StGallAb.html (222 words)

	Minutes of the St. Gall Conference
		The following English translation of the St. Gall minutes was sent in by Margit Smith, in response to an appeal on the front page of this newsletter two issues ago.
		The governments of Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Prussia, Saxony, Hungary and Württemberg, the libraries of Oxford and St. Gall, and the Association of Swiss Librarians had accepted the invitations by naming their representatives.
		Nicholson and P. Ehrle, briefly express their gratitude to: The government of the Canton of St. Gall; Dr. Fäh, the monastery librarian; then especially Mr.
	palimpsest.stanford.edu /byorg/abbey/an/an22/an22-7/an22-702.html (2502 words)

	Art 230: St. Gall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Around 815 A.D. Abbot Haito of the Monastery of St. Gall received a drawing on vellum from Abbot Bernard of Reichenau.
		On the vellum, Bernard had provided Haito with the plan of an ideal monastery laid out in accordance with St.
		The result places the large church and its associated cloister at the center of the plan while locating ancillary functions, including the workshops for craftsmen, on the periphery.
	www.faculty.umb.edu /nancy_stieber/gall (173 words)

	John Gall and St. Louis Cardinals Stats, Statistics, Player News, Fantasy Baseball News - RotoWire.com
		Gall hit a pinch-hit, two-run homer Thursday, the first of his career.
		Getting the start in left field, Gall drove in the first two runs of his career with a double off of Dontrelle Willis Tuesday in a 3-1 victory.
		Gall is expected to replace Larry Walker, who will be placed on the DL with a herniated disk, on the Cardinals' roster, the Cardinals' official site reports.
	www.rotowire.com /baseball/player.htm?id=7707 (226 words)

	Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - St. Gall
		Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne, France, ordained by St. Quinctian.
		Gall was born in Clermont to a distinguished family.
		He served as a monk, a deacon, and as a cantor in the court of King Thierry I before becoming bishop of Clermont in 526.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=650 (88 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 23
		Saint Gall, who evangelized the Swiss and founded a famous monastery, was one of his disciples who accompanied him.
		At Agilulph's request St. Columbanus wrote a letter to the reigning Pope Boniface IV regarding the need to summon a synod to bring dogmatic peace.
		I suppose that I first became interested in St. Felicity because of the similarity between her story and that of the mother of the Maccabees (2 Maccabees 7)--a story that affected me viscerally when I first read it to the assembly, unable to stop my tears.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1123.htm (6961 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List
		Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora (1994)
		St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim (1985)
		Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church (1988)
	whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=268 (2436 words)

	March 25: Conrad Grebel preached in St. Gall
		When Conrad Grebel arrived at St. Gall Switzerland, on this day March 25, 1525, he began to preach on the need for repentance and baptism.
		Grebel went to St. Gall, where he found immediate success.
		Seventh months later, he was arrested, tried and sentenced to life in prison.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/03/daily-03-25-2001.shtml (558 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Ekkehard of St. Gall: Three Monks of St. Gall
		Ekkehard of St. Gall: Three Monks of St. Gall
		The lives of three monks who lived in the abbey of St. Gall at the end of the ninth century were chronicled by Ekkehard of St. Gall a century later.
		from Ekkehard, "History of the Vicissitudes of St. Gallen" in G. Coulton, ed., A Medieval Garner, (London: Constable, 1910), pp.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/eckehard1.html (991 words)

	Public invited to count down to ‘04 at St. Gall (printable version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Public invited to count down to ‘04 at St. Gall (printable version)
		The Knights of Columbus Council 12845 is planning a New Year’s Eve dance at the St. Gall Catholic Church activity center in Gardnerville from 8:30 p.m.
		Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased in advance from the St. Gall Church office at 782-2852.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=59233 (111 words)

	Ragatz general view St. Gall Switzerland Famous Landmarks
		Ragatz general view St. Gall Switzerland Famous Landmarks
		We are now proud to offer prints from our extensive collection of vintage Photochrom(e) reproductions.
		Our historical products include reproduction civil war maps, postcards and photochroms, baseball cards, magic posters, circus posters, science fiction posters, classic art, and more.
	www.rainfall.com /posters/landscape/19944.htm (286 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)