Blessed Notkar Balbulus

Also known as

• Notker Balbulus
• Notkar the Stammerer

Memorial

• 7 May
• formerly 6 April

Profile

Benedictine monk. Priest. Poet. Musician. Teacher. Writer. Historian. Hagiographer; wrote a martyrology, a collection of legends, and a metrical biography of Saint Gall. Friend of Saint Tutilo.

Born

• c.840 at Elgg, Switzerland

Died

• 8 April 912 at Saint Gall, Switzerland of natural causes
• relics interred under the altar in the church of Saint Gall

Beatified

• 1512 by Pope Julius II (cultus confirmed)

Patronage

• musicians
• stammering children

Representation

• book
• man beating the devil with a stick
• mill wheel
• staff

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Notkar Balbulus”. Saints.SQPN.com. 31 March 2010. Web. 20 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-notkar-balbulus/>