back our monastery developed from gull cell as described in the gallus vietor the life of girl written in eight hundred thirty five by a monk from the ice in our monastery in southern germany according to this source in seven hundred nineteen the alimony monk. founded a monastery at the spot where the saint was buried at the behest of the frankish rulers of the time calm and pippin he put the house under benedictine rule we have often been subjected to the pressure of kings and emperors but we have benefited from their patronage to abbott himself fell victim to such power politics wrongly accused of sexually abusing a woman he died in a dungeon on the island of that in the rye he was buried in the ancient chapel which today lies under the chancel of the abbey check.