At Charlemagne's request Pope Adrian I sent distinguished chanters from Rome, who propagated the use of the Gregorian chant. Numerous Anglo-Saxon and Irish monks came to copy manuscripts.
Under abbot Waldo of Reichenau (740-814) copying of manuscripts was undertaken and a famous library was gathered. Much land in Thurgau, Zürichgau and in the rest of Alemannia as far as the Neckar was transferred to the abbey due to Stiftungen. With the increase in the number of monks the abbey grew stronger also economically. Two monks of the Abbey of St Gall, Magnus von Füssen and Theodor, founded the monasteries in Kempten and Füssen in the Allgäu. At the end of abbot Otmar's reign, the Professbuch mentions 53 names. The abbey grew fast and many Alemannic noblemen became monks. During the reign of Pepin the Short, in the 8th century, Othmar founded the Carolingian style Abbey of St Gall, where arts, letters and sciences flourished. Several different dates are given for the foundation of the monastery, including 719, 720, 747 and the middle of the 8th century. Homoj daŭrigis serĉi protekton ĉe la ĉelo de Gallus en tempo de danĝero.įollowing Gallus' death, Charles Martel appointed Otmar as custodian of St Gall's relics. Li vivis en sia ĉelo ĝis sia morto en 646.
Proksimume 613 Gallus, laŭ tradicio irlanda monaĥo kaj disĉiplo kaj kunulo de sankta Columbanus, establis ermitejon en la loko kiu iĝus la monaĥejo.
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