[Footnote 49: Agathias notices their superstition in a
philosophic tone, (l. i. p. 18.) At Zug, in Switzerland,
idolatry still prevailed in the year 613: St. Columban and
St. Gaul were the apostles of that rude country; and the
latter founded a hermitage, which has swelled into an
ecclesiastical principality and a populous city, the seat of
freedom and commerce.]