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The Stiftskirche St. Gallus und Otmar (Collegiate Church of St. Gall and Otmar) is a Roman Catholic church in the city of St. Gallen, Switzerland. [1] Once part of the Abbey of St. Gall , it has been the cathedral of the Diocese of St. Gallen since 1847. [ 2 ]
Abbey Cathedral of St. Gall. The Abbey of Saint Gall (German: Abtei St. Gallen) is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage.
St. Gallen [a] is a Swiss city and the capital of the canton of St. Gallen.It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. [3] Today, it is a large urban agglomeration (with around 167,000 inhabitants in 2019) [4] and represents the center of eastern Switzerland.
The Catholic Diocese of Saint Gallen (Latin: Diœcesis Sancti Galli) is a Latin Catholic diocese in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The diocese was created in 1824 but united with the episcopal see of Chur until 1847. Much of the territory had earlier been part of the Diocese of Konstanz.
St. Gallen Cathedral is dedicated to Gall and Othmar. In the 10th century, St. Othmar chapel on Werd island was erected in his memory. [5] There is a church named for St. Othmar in Mödling, Austria. The Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota holds a reliquary containing some relics of St. Othmar. [6]
St Gallen Cathedral, Switzerland, 1755-1768- Architect, Peter Thumb. Superficially this monastic building presents a standard West Front with twin towers framing a gabled end. But this is a Baroque Cathedral. The towers are framing the apsidal eastern end in the manner of a German Romanesque church.
birds, geese, poultry, Switzerland, St. Gallen [1] Stained-glass disc showing Saint Gall as dean, dated 1566 Gall ( Latin : Gallus ; c. 550 – c. 645) according to hagiographic tradition was a disciple and one of the traditional twelve companions of Columbanus on his mission from Ireland to the continent.
The abbey library of Saint Gall (German: Stiftsbibliothek) is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland.In 1983, the library, as well as the Abbey of St. Gall, were designated a World Heritage Site, as "an outstanding example of a large Carolingian monastery and was, since the 8th century until its secularisation in 1805, one of the most important cultural ...