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 96 DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT PLAN St. Gall", and three years after removed to a basilica erected oil purpose for him, and placed mider the altar in a stone ark. We may infer from all this that the body of St. Gall was never disturbed, even during the rebuilding of the church, for if it had, the fact would have been recorded as Avell as these nu- merous removals of St. Otlimar. It follows that the first founder was so placed that his tomb did not interfere with the reconstruction ; and the builders seem to have imagined that the second founder might also have remained undis- turbed. But this shews that St. Gall must have been placed below, within the crypt and not above it, and therefore the '■' sarcofafjus sandi coiyoris" which in the plan is shewn be- hind the high altar, must really have been in the crypt below. Amongst the miracles of St. Gall there is a tale of a cripple who was brought by his friends to the menioriam. B. Galli, (that is, the tomb or altar of St. Gall,) and daily laid close to the sepulchre in the crypf. But on the other hand there is another tale concerning a lamp which burnt nightly before the upper altar and tomb, and which gave a small light to the altar within the crj/jjt, through a small window or openings. It is not impossible that although the real sepulchre of the saint was in the confessionary or crypt below, a monument to his honour may have been erected above, behind the high altar y. " Iso de Mirac, cap. iv. ; (but in cap. dedicated in that year. The church suf- vii. post arum S. J. Baptistae,) lib. ii. cap. fared by a fire in 937. Abbot Vodalricus, 2. G. pp. 287, 289, 2i)4. or Vlricus, (A.D. 990—996,) made a " Cap. xxxii. G. p. 271. " Cottidie cliapel, in vvliich was placed the sepulchre juxta sepulchruni in crypta collocatus." of the Lord, constructed with jjreat care, ^ " Lumen quod ante superius altare et and decorated with gold and colours, tnmbam ardebat per quandam fenestram There were four altars in the chapel, one radios suos ad altare infra cryptam posi- in honour of the Holy Trinity and another tum dirigebat." — cap. xxv. G. p. 268. of the Holy Cross. On the right hand was y I have already stated that there are painted the assumption of the Virgin, and discrepancies between the plan and some an altar was there dedicated to St. Mary, of the arrangements mentioned in the On the left an altar of St. John, with a chronicles. Tlius the altar of St. John picture of his death. In the crypt below Baptist, near which St. Othmar was de- he arranged a fifth altar to Vodalricus the posited, does not appear in the plan. The bishop. G. p. 112. In the days of Abbot crypt is called the crypt of the twelve Ulric the Sixth (1204' — 1219) considerable Apostles and of St. Columbanus, in cap. changes were made in the buildings, and a xxvi. of the life of Notker (G. p. 374;) and great tower erected for the churc';. I find the altar of St. Columbanus in the crypt is no particulars relating to the history of mentioned; (G. p. 130;) but the writer the clmrcli after this period. Murray's belongs to the twelfth century. However, Hand-book informs us that the abbey in the "plan the altar of St. Columbanus is churcli is now a cathedral, and was so on the steps of the presbytery. In 1225 modernized in the last centui-y that it pos- (G. p. 137) two crypts are mentioned, sesses little to interest the stranger. The namely, of the Apostles and of all saints : buildings of the deserted monastery date " duas cryplas nostras xil. videticel Apo- from the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- stolortim el omnium sanctorum." They were turies, and are partly employed for govern-