This is the plan for a monastery created circa 816-836 AD. The plan included detailed drawings for the monastic gardens and an orchard. St Gall, though never built as planned, was thought to be the ideal layout for a Benedictine monastery. A copy of the plan was found preserved in the library at the Abbey of St Gallen in Switzerland. It was addressed to Gozbert, abbot of St Gall from 816-836 AD. We include it in our series not because monasticism is biblical but as a reminder of the bold attempts made to live a godly life in the first millennium. Though we will not want to go down this path we must be equally radical in our efforts to be godly.
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AHOCIA 100 Objects 09
This is the plan for a monastery created circa 816-836 AD. The plan included detailed drawings for the monastic gardens and an orchard. St Gall, though never built as planned, was thought to be the ideal layout for a Benedictine monastery. A copy of the plan was found preserved in the library at the Abbey of St Gallen in Switzerland. It was addressed to Gozbert, abbot of St Gall from 816-836 AD. We include it in our series not because monasticism is biblical but as a reminder of the bold attempts made to live a godly life in the first millennium. Though we will not want to go down this path we must be equally radical in our efforts to be godly.
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