Gall Morel

that in his poems, "he shows himself now as a childlike pious monk, now as a good-natured humorist, now a man fully conversant with worldly affairs, and often as a keen satirist, forceful and epigrammatic in expression."

Drawing on these books, Morel published the Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters, Offenbarungen der Schwester Mechtild von Magdeburg, and other works.

His only original dramatic work is the comedy Der Franzos im Ybrig (also known as Chevreau oder die Franzosen in Jberg), written at the age of 21 (in 1824) in the course of three or four days.

The subject of the play is an invalid soldier of the French invasion of Switzerland of 1798 who experiences the rather inexpert preparations for national defence on the part of the population of Iberg.

as the "likely most universal spirit of the Einsiedeln Abbey" and by Karl Johann Greith, "Father Gall Morel was a living vindication of the monastic and cloistered life against the attacks of misunderstanding and prejudice."