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Blessed Notkar Balbulus

[Blessed Notkar Balbulus]
Also known as

  • Notker Balbulus

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
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