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The "Bear of St Gall", Bangor

A recently-unveiled carving of a bear, at St Gall’s (CoI) parish church J4781 : St Gall's parish church, Bangor (background), overlooking the Crawfordsburn Road J4781 : The Crawfordsburn Road, Bangor (3). To quote from the church’s website “The story of St Gall tells of when he travelled in the woods of what is now Switzerland he was sitting one evening warming his hands at a fire. Suddenly a bear emerged from the woods and charged. The story goes that the holy man rebuked the bear and so awed by his presence it stopped its attack and slunk off in to the trees. There it gathered some firewood before returning to share the heat of the fire with St Gall. The legend says that for the rest of his days St Gall was followed around by his companion the bear”.