Saint Wolfgang

Also known as: Wolfgang of Ratisbon
Wolfgang of Regensberg
The Great Almoner
Memorial: 31 October
Profile: Educated by Benedictines at Reichenau, Switzerland. Spiritual student of Saint Romuald. Benedictine monk at Einsiedeln abbey, Switzerland in 964. Teacher; director of the abbey school; abbey prior in 970. Evangelized the Magyars in modern Hungary. Missionary to Pannonia. Priest. Bishop of Ratisbon (Regensberg) in 972. Reformed clerical discipline and spirituality in his diocese. Noted for his preaching, his teaching abilities, his charity (hence the name Great Almoner) and his care for lay people in his diocese. Tutor to the future emperor Saint Henry II.
Born: 924 in Swabia
Died: 31 October 994 at Pupping, Linz (modern Austria) of natural causes
Canonized: 1052 by Pope Leo IX
Patronage: against apoplexy
against paralysis
against stomach diseases
against strokes
apoplexics
carpenters
paralysed people
Regensburg, Germany, diocese of
stroke victims
Representation: church
hatchet
Images: Gallery of images of Saint Wolfgang
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia
Ecole Initiative, by Karen Rae Keck
Google Directory
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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