Wolfgang of Regensburg (; 934 – 31 October 994 AD) was

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from Christmas 972 until his death. He is a

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in the

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and

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churches. He is regarded as one of the three great

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saints of the 10th century, the other two being

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and

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. Towards the end of his life Wolfgang withdrew as a

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to a solitary spot, in the

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region of

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. Soon after Wolfgang's death many churches chose him as their

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, and various towns were named after him.

Early life

Wolfgang was descended from the family of the

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n Counts of

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. When seven years old, he had an ecclesiastic as a tutor at home; later he attended the celebrated monastic school at

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.Foley, Leonard. "St. Wolfgang of Regensburg", ''Saint of the Day'', Franciscan Media
/ref> Here he formed a strong friendship with Henry of Babenberg, brother of Bishop Poppo of Würzburg, whom he followed to Würzburg in order to attend the

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s of the noted Italian

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Stephen of

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at the cathedral school. After Henry was made Archbishop of

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in 956, he summoned Wolfgang, who became a teacher in the cathedral school of Trier, and also labored for the reform of the archdiocese, despite the hostility with which his efforts were met. Wolfgang's residence at Trier greatly influenced his monastic and

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tendencies, as here he came into contact with the great reform monastery of the 10th century,

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, where he made the acquaintance of Ramuold, the teacher of Saint

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. After the death of Archbishop Henry of Trier in 964, Wolfgang entered the

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in the Abbey of Maria Einsiedeln,

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, and was

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priest by Saint Ulrich in 968.

Mission to the Magyars

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settled in ancient

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, where they remained a constant menace to the empire. At the request of Ulrich, who clearly saw the danger, and at the desire of the Emperor

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, Wolfgang, according to the abbey annals, was "sent to the Hungarians" as the most suitable man to evangelize them.Schmid, Ulrich. "St. Wolfgang." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 4 January 2023 He was followed by other

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sent by

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Bishop of Passau The Diocese of Passau (; ) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany that is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. After the death of Bishop Michael of Regensburg (23 September 972) Bishop Piligrim obtained from the emperor the appointment of Wolfgang as the new bishop (

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972). Wolfgang's services in this new position were of the highest importance. As Bishop of Regensburg, Wolfgang became the tutor of Emperor Saint

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, who learned from him the principles which governed his life. Poppe, son of

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Luitpold,

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(1004–1012), also had him as their teacher. Wolfgang deserves credit for his disciplinary labours in his diocese. His main work in this respect was connected with the ancient and celebrated

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, which he reformed by granting it once more abbots of its own, thus withdrawing it from the control of the bishops of Regensburg, who for many years had been abbots ''

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'', a condition of affairs that had been far from beneficial to the abbey and monastic life. He was one of the first German bishops to do this, and his example in this was much copied across Germany in the years following. In the Benedictine monk Ramuold, whom Wolfgang called from Saint Maximin at Trier, Saint Emmeram received a capable abbot (975). Wolfgang was an advocate of the monastic reforms of

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which aimed at a reestablishing adherence to the

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. He also reformed the convents of Obermünster and Niedermünster at Regensburg, chiefly by giving them as an example the convent of St. Paul, Mittelmünster, at Regensburg, which he had founded in 983. He also cooperated in the reform of the ancient and celebrated Benedictine Abbey of

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, which had been founded by the

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er dynasty, and which from that time took on new life. He showed genuine episcopal generosity in the liberal manner with which he met the views of the Emperor

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regarding the intended reduction in size of his diocese for the benefit of the new Diocese of

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(975), to which

was appointed first bishop. As prince of the empire he performed his duties towards the emperor and the empire with the utmost scrupulousness and, like Ulrich, was one of the mainstays of the

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policies. He took part in the various imperial

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s, and, in the autumn of 978, accompanied the Emperor Otto II on his campaign to

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, and took part in the Diet of

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in June 983. He was succeeded by Gebhard I.Bernhardt, John W., ''Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c. 936–1075''. 1993, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 102, n.62]

Hermitage and death

Apparently on account of a political dispute between Duke

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and Emperor

, Wolfgang spent a year at Mondsee in 976. From there he withdrew as a

to a solitary spot, now the

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(''"Wolfgang's Lake"'') in the

region of

. He was discovered by a hunter and brought back to Regensburg. While travelling on the

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, he fell ill at the village of

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, which is between

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and the market town of Aschach near

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, and at his request was carried into the chapel of

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at Pupping, where he died. His body was taken up the Danube by his friends Count Aribo of

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and Archbishop Hartwich of

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to Regensburg, and was solemnly buried in the crypt of Saint Emmeram. Many

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s were reported at his grave; in 1052 he was canonized.

Veneration

Soon after Wolfgang's death many churches chose him as their

, and various towns were named after him. Wolfgang is sometimes counted among the

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. He is the patron saint of woodcutters.Agasso, Domenico. "San Volfango di Ratisbona", Santi e Beati, February 1, 2001
/ref> In

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he has been especially honoured by the medieval

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ean painter

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(1430–1498), who created an imperishable memorial to him, the high altar of

St. Wolfgang Wolfgang of Regensburg (; 934 – 31 October 994 AD) was bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria from Christmas 972 until his death. He is a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. He is regarded as one of the three great German saints of ...

. In the panel pictures which are now exhibited in the Old Pinakothek at

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are depicted in an artistic manner the chief events in the saint's life. The

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is another monumental Late Gothic piece of art dedicated to the saint. The oldest portrait of Wolfgang is a

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, painted about the year 1100 in the Evangeliary of Saint Emmeram, now in the library of the castle cathedral at

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. A modern picture by Schwind is in the

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at Munich. This painting represents the

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of Wolfgang forcing the

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to help him to build a church. In other paintings he is generally depicted in episcopal dress, an

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in the right hand and the

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in the left, or as a hermit in the wilderness being discovered by a hunter. The axe refers to an incident in the life of the saint. After having selected a solitary spot in the wilderness, he prayed and then threw his axe into the thicket; the spot on which the axe fell he regarded as the place where

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intended he should build his

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. This axe is still shown in the little market town of

which sprang up on the spot of the old cell.

Literature

At the request of the Abbey of St. Emmeram, the life of Wolfgang was written by Otloh, a Benedictine monk of St. Emmeram about 1050. This life is especially important for the early medieval history both of the church and of civilization in

and

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, and it forms the basis of all later accounts of the saint. The oldest and best manuscript of this ''Vita'' is in the library of

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(MS. No. 322), and has been printed with critical notes in ''Mon. Germ. His.: Script.'', IV, 524–542.

References

;Attribution * This entry cites: **''Der heilige Wolfgang, Bischof von Regensburg; historische Festschrift zum neunhundertjährigen Gedächtnisse seines Todes'', ed., in connection with numerous historical scholars, by

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(Ratisbon, 1894), among the chief collaborators on this work being BRAUNMULLER, RINGHOLZ (of Einsiedeln), and DANNERBAUER; KOLBE, Die Verdienste des Bischofs Wolfgang v. R. um das Bildungswesen Suddeutschlands. Beitrag z. Gesch. der Padogogik des X und XI Jahrhunderis (Breslau, 1894);

External links

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Wolfgangskrypta in der Basilika St. Emmeram, Regensburg
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