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Bl. Noktar Balbulus
May 7, Blessed


Source: catholicsaints.info




Also known as:
Notkar the Stammerer
Notkar of Saint Gall
Notker

Born:
c.840 at Elgg, Switzerland

Short Biography:

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.

Died:



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

Patronage:

  • musicians
  • stammering children

Representation:

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








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