![]() ![]() ![]() And shortly after Columba saw this, sailors from Gaul arrived to tell the news of it. Adomnan of Iona had written that at one point Columba had through clairvoyance seen a city in Italy near Rome being destroyed by fiery sulphur as a divine punishment and that three thousand people had perished. St Columba, being an important father of Irish monasticism, was also important to St Gall and thus to Notker's own monastery. In his martyrology, he appeared to corroborate one of St Columba's miracles. He completed Erchanbert's chronicle, arranged a martyrology, composed a metrical biography of Saint Gall, and authored other works. He was chiefly active as a teacher, and displayed refinement of taste as poet and author.Įkkehard IV, the biographer of the monks of Saint Gall, lauds him as "delicate of body but not of mind, stuttering of tongue but not of intellect, pushing boldly forward in things Divine, a vessel of the Holy Spirit without equal in his time". He became a monk there and is mentioned as librarian in 890 and as master of guests in 892–4. He studied with Tuotilo at Saint Gall's monastic school, and was taught by Iso of St. He would seem to have been born at Jonschwil on the River Thur, south of Wil, in the modern canton of Saint Gall in Switzerland some sources claim Elgg to be his place of birth. ![]() Notker was born around 840, to a distinguished family. ![]()
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