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For quite some time, the St. Gall monks did not really understand the drawing they possessed. Before the renowned Benedictine scholar, Jean Mabillon (1632–1707), visited St. Gallen and described the Plan as a document directly related to their own monastery, they took it for a sketch of St. Martin's Abbey in Tours/France, illustrating the text on the other side.