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New Zealand Tablet, 11 October 1906, Page 3

St. Gall, Abbot. St. Gall, a disciple of St. Columban, was'a native of Ireland. He was the chief assistant of St. Columban in Ms missionary labors. St. Gall was able to preach in the German as well as the Latin language. He laid the foundations of the celebrated Monastery of St. Gall, in Switzerland. He refused the Bishopric of Constance, which the Duke Gunza pressed upon his acceptance. He continued to preach the . Gospel to the inhabitants of the country a-bout the Monastery of St. Gall, and at the time of his death, which occurred at Arbon, October 16, 646, when he was in the 45th year of his ag<% the entire country of the Alemanni had become a Christian province.