Eusebius of Saint Gall

Who they were

Eusebius, despite his name, is said to have been an Irishman who became a monk at the abbey of Saint-Gall. He was allowed to live as a hermit on Mount St Victor near Rankweil in the Vorarlberg.

After about thirty years, when he rebuked some local peasants for their godless lives, one of them killed him with a scythe, in 884. A monastery for the Irish was built there by Charles the Fat about the same time.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

An Irish hermit monk of Saint-Gall, killed in the Vorarlberg.