Hitto of St. Gallen

Hitto of St. Gallen was a priest and then a monk of the monastery of Sankt Gallen in Switzerland in the 10th century. He was the brother of Saint Wiborada, the anchoress of Sankt Gallen. He is remembered on 24 November.

Recent research by the archivist Peter Erhart shows that the two siblings came from Jonschwil or its surroundings. Hitto wrote in 900 and 904 two charters of property transfers to the church of Saint Martin at Jonschwil, where he was a priest, and in 906 he entered the monastery of Sankt Gallen. When Wiborada was enclosed beside the church of Saint Magnus (Sankt Mangen) in Sankt Gallen, in 916, the priest of that church was her brother, Hitto.

Through him Wiborada learned the one hundred and fifty psalms in Latin and made a pilgrimage to Rome with him. She served him and sent him clothes and the things he needed, and Hitto, following her advice, entered the monastery of Sankt Gallen as a monk.

He is a saint of the West, of the undivided Church; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known. We have few sources about him apart from those about his sister.