October 31 - Saint Wolfgang
Quick Facts- 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.
