Saint Othmar
- Also known as
- Audomar
- Memorial
- 16 November
- Profile
- Educated at Rhaetia.
Priest.
Presided over a church of Saint Florinus in Rhaetia, probably the same church where Saint Florinus worked and was buried.
Appointed superior of the cell of Saint Gall in 720, and united the area monks into a monastery under the rule of Saint Columban.
As abbot, he added a hospital and school, and changed the monastery’s rule to Benedictine.
Legend says that when Saint Othmar fed the poor from a barrel of provisions, it never became empty, no matter how much he took from it.
In 759, Counts Warin and Ruodhart unjustly tried to gain possession of property belonging to the abbey.
Othmar resisted, they imprisoned him at the castle of Bodmann, then on the island of Werd in the Rhine where he died.
His cultus spread soon after his death, and he is now one of the most popular saints in Switzerland.
- Died
- 16 November 759 at Werd in the Rhine, near Echnez, Switzerland; body transferred in 769 to monastery of Saint Gall; body entomb in the church of Saint Othmar at Saint Gall in 867
- Representation
- Benedictine abbot holding a little barrel in his hand
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