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Historical Points Zürich Early and Medieval The story of Christianity in Zürich begins at the end of the 3rd century with the tale of the city's patron saints, Felix and Regula. The two Roman siblings, threatened with exec...
Historical Points St.Gallen Ironically, the history of St. Gall begins with an Irishman: St. Gallus. Gallus was a member of the Irish peregrini, foreign missionaries who melded pilgrimage and missionary travel as a way of lif...
Historical Points Luzern Lucerne traces its roots directly to St. Leodegar monastery, a small Benedictine cloister founded in 735. Over the centuries a community developed, stretching along the Reuss River from the monastery ...
Historical Points Lake Geneva Region Lausanne Although Lausanne's Christian history stretches back over a millennium-there is some evidence that the city became a bishopric in the 7th century'it is th...
Historical Points Graubünden Graubünden enjoyed a friendly alliance with the rest of Switzerland throughout its history, but its status as a canton didn't begin until 1803 when the independent democratic republic joined the S...
Historical Points Geneva Genevan Christians trace their faith back to 4th-century Roman times: A Christian church was located near the site of the modern day St. Peter's Cathedral in 350 AD and written reco...
Historical Points Bern In 1191, Duke Berchtold V von Zähringen traveled through the forests near Burgundy when he came upon a virtually impregnable bend in the Aare River. A settlement on this peninsula would be an ideal mil...
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