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Saint Othmar

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294: 456: 317: 485: 313:. In 867 he was solemnly entombed in the new church of St. Othmar at St. Gall. His feast is celebrated on 16 November. He is represented in art as a Benedictine abbot, generally holding a little barrel in his hand, an allusion to the alleged miracle, that a barrel of Othmar never became empty, no matter how much he took from it to give to the poor. 384: 301:
Othmar's cult began to spread soon after his death, and next to Maurice and Gall, he is one of the most popular saint in Switzerland. In 769 his body was transferred to the monastery of St. Gall. As the weather was very hot, when the men rowed his body over the lake, they became extremely thirsty.
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In 759, Counts Warin and Ruodhart tried to gain possession of some property belonging to St. Gall, Othmar fearlessly resisted their demands. Hereupon they captured him while he was on a journey to Constance, and held him prisoner, first at the castle of Bodmann, then on the island of
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they had left did not become empty, regardless of how much they drank. Therefore, the wine barrel became one of his attributes.
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is dedicated to Gall and Othmar. In the 10th century, St. Othmar chapel on Werd island was erected in his memory.
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and closure of the monastery in 1805. Othmar also provided for the needs of the surrounding community, building an
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in the Rhine. At the latter place he died, after an imprisonment of six months, and was buried.
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renounced his throne in 747, he visited Othmar at St. Gall and gave him a letter to his brother
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Othmar was of Alemannic descent, received his education at the cathedral school in
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in Rhaetia. He was ordained priest, and for a time presided over a church of
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in Rhaetia. This church was probably identical with the one of St. Peter at
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The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature
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in what is now Switzerland, as well as others in France and Germany.
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In 720 Waltram of Thurgau appointed Othmar superior over the cell of
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Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 24 November 2021
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In 747, as a part of the reform movement of Church institutions in
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the monks that lived about the cell of St. Gall, according to the
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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holds a reliquary containing some relics of St. Othmar.
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Ott, Michael. "St. Othmar." The Catholic Encyclopedia
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and custodian of Gall's relics. Othmar united into a
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Saint Audomar

Saint Gallen
Switzerland
Werd Island
Lake Constance
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized
Constance
Germany
Solomon I, Bishop of Constance
shrine
Feast
Attributes
Crozier
Patronage
Saint Gallus
monk
priest
abbot
Abbey of St. Gall
Benedictine
monastery
St. Gallen
Chur
St. Florinus
Remus
St. Gall
monastery

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