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there in 990 under the abbot
Ercanbertn. In 993, Gotthard was ordained a priest, and later became prior and rector of the monastic school. Duke Henry was present at Gotthard's installation as abbot in 996.
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travelling merchants; invoked against fever, dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout; invoked by those in peril of the sea
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were attributed to the relics. The
Gotthard shrine is one of the oldest remaining relic shrines of the Middle Ages, dating from about 1140.
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from the abbatial church to the cathedral at
Hildesheim. On 5 May the first liturgical festivity in honor of Gotthard was celebrated.
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Gotthard also became the patron saint of traveling merchants, and thus many churches and chapels were dedicated to him in the
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Despite his advanced age, he defended the rights of his diocese vigorously. After a brief sickness, he died on
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Wooden statue of St. Gotthard, carved about 1505, Cath. Church in
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historically links the canton of Ticino with the German speaking part of
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to restore
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383:Scandinavia
370:Gotthard's
237:Benedictine
805:960 births
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723:1022–1038
691:5 May 1038
528:References
505:in Hungary
443:Swiss Alps
399:hailstones
368:translated
330:Bernhard I
322:Epiphanius
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305:Veneration
129:Attributes
82:5 May 1038
753:Biography
729:Thiethmar
441:) in the
344:. There,
257:Tegernsee
139:Patronage
102:Canonized
712:Bernward
473:See also
431:Ticinese
376:Miracles
314:Tympanum
276:Bernward
261:Hersfeld
210:Salzburg
162:Godehard
158:Gotthard
56:Basilica
42:Gotthard
18:Godehard
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739:Portals
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299:hospice
222:provost
200:in the
178:Gothard
73:Bavaria
777:Saints
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395:dropsy
389:, and
372:relics
342:Rheims
318:Christ
218:Passau
108:Rheims
106:1131,
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338:synod
295:5 May
227:When
214:Italy
186:saint
170:Latin
123:5 May
119:Feast
38:Saint
586:Elia
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403:gout
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