St. Othmar O.S.B. (c. 689 – c. 759) was a monk and priest appointed as the first abbot of the Abbey of St. Gall a Benedictine monastery around which grew up the town of St. Gallen Switzerland.Othmar rebuilt the hermitage in which the Irish monk Saint Gall had lived and he is called the founder of the monastery at that site.
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birth date
0689-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
birth place
Switzerland, St. Gallen
canonized by
Solomon I (bishop of Constance)
canonized place
Switzerland, Konstanz
death date
0759-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
death place
Switzerland, Lake Constance, Werd (Lake Constance)
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