a place with an altitude of seven hundred meters because when he first arrived he stumbled and saw it as a sign from god he was collecting wood to make a fire when a brown bear approached him sank all spoke to him and said in the name of god go and fetch me more wood for my fire and he did. the reformation arrived in st gallen and fifteen twenty seven. conflict between catholics and protestants was rife a ten meter high wall was erected to separate the abbey from the time. the art begun to show all the crowded the town into two it was half catholic half protestant it stood there until eighteen twenty which is when the town became a center of the textiles industry famous for embroidery then the wall was taken down among the infidel textiles brought affluence to st gallon by nineteen jan in the region was the world's leading exporter of embroidered goods today