HE was an Irish or Scotch abbot, who, leaving his own country, founded
several monasteries in Austria, Burgundy, and Switzerland: the last was
that of Sekingen, in an isle in the Rhine, now one of the four forest
towns belonging to the house of Austria. In this monastery he died, in
538. He is the tutelar patron of the Swiss canton of Glaris, who carry
in their coat of arms his picture in the Benedictin habit, though he was
not of that order. See Molanus, Addit. ad Usuard; Pantaleon,
Prosopographiae Vir. Illustr. German. ad an. 502; King in Calend Wion,
Lignum Vitae, l. 3.