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Also known as

• Notkar the Stammerer
• Notkar of Saint Gall
• Notker….

Memorial

• 6 April
• 7 May on some calendars

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

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Notkar Balbulus“. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 April 2020. Web. 26 October 2021. <>