St.
Gall died on the 16th October, 645, at a very advanced age.

The monastery was not erected until after his decease, and it was not till the year 1798 that the abbey lands were aggregated to the Swiss Confederation as one of the cantons.
Another Irish saint, who evangelized in France, was St.Fiacre.

He erected a monastery to the Blessed Virgin in a forest near Meaux.

The fame of his sanctity became so great, and the pilgrimage to his tomb so popular, that the French hackney coaches _( fiacre)_ obtained their name from their constant employment in journeys to his shrine.
About the same period, St.Fursey founded a monastery near Burgh Castle, in Suffolk, where he was kindly received by Sigbert, King of the East Angles.

From thence he proceeded to Lagny, in France, where his missionary zeal was long remembered.