Joseph von Rudolphi

[2] A Catholic, Joseph von Rudolphi joined the Saint Gall monastery school in 1683 and took his religious vows in 1685.

The benediction, performed by Bishop Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg of Konstanz and the assisting Abbots of Einsiedeln and Mehrerau, was delayed until 24 June 1721.

Only on 23 March 1719 did the abbot receive a large part of the library that had been brought to Zurich at the beginning of the war.

Other items belonging to the prey of the people of Bern, for instance eight bells and seven fire engines, arrived in Saint Gall on 5 May 1721.

Von Rudolphi defined the exact border demarcations with the dominions adjoining Saint Gall.

After several disputes in Toggenburg, abbatial magistrates Johann Baptist Keller and Niklaus Rüdlinger, who had formerly been leading the opposition against the abbey, were murdered on 8 December 1735.

On 21 September 1739, von Rudolphi expelled Konstanz's official Franz Andreas Rettich, who had been assigned by the bishop to visit the Saint Gall parishes, from the abbatial territory.