To mark the 1,400th anniversary of St Gallen, four Swiss men have been retracing the footsteps of the city's patron saint, Gallus, from Ireland to Switzerland. swissinfo.ch met some of the team ahead of the journey.
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Featured music: “Dilecte Deo Galle”, Saint Gallen’s abbey monks; “The Hermit’s Wish”, sung by Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin and with harp music by Helen Davies.
Following in the footsteps of Gallus
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Documents put Gallus as coming from Bangor in Northern Ireland, but not everyone agrees. Recently, historian Max Schär published a book arguing that Gallus came from Alsace because he could understand and preach in German. But according to Ernst Tremp, head librarian of the St Gallen Abbey Library, which is running an exhibition devoted to…
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The abbey itself was founded in in 612, and the first records of a library date back to 820. In the following centuries, the abbey became a cultural centre famous for its writings and the illumination of manuscripts. The Baroque hall was built between 1758 and 1767. Today, the library contains 2,100 manuscripts, 1,650 incunabula…
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