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Feastday: July 1
Patron of birds; geese; poultry; Sweden
550 - 646

Famous Irish missionary and companion of St. Columban. Born in Ireland, he was trained by Sts. Columban and Comgall, and he was one of the twelve companions who accompanied Columban to France. He was a noted scriptural scholar and helped in the founding of Luxeuil Monastery. When St. Columban was exiled in 610, Gall followed him to Switzerland and then to Italy. Gall remained in Switzerland and became a hermit on the Steinach River. The monastery of St. Gall was erected on this site. Gall refused two bishoprics and abbacy of Luxeuil. He is venerated as an apostle to the land. He died in Arbon.

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Jim Costich
3 months ago
My distant ancestors came from Ireland and settled in Switzerland sometime around the beginning of the Christian conversion of the Swiss. They eventually came to live in Lucerne. I can only imagine that they must have been among the Irish who came with or around the time that St. Gall took up his mission in Switzerland. I'm very interested in that time and any stories of Irish mission and settlement in Switzerland because it's probably part of my ancestors story. I found this very helpful. There really can't ever be any "obscure" Saints.

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