Wolfgang of Regensburg

Wolfgang of Regensburg (c. 924 in Swabia, probably Pfullingen, † 31 October 994 in Pupping, now Upper Austria ) was a missionary and Bishop of Regensburg.

Life and work

Wolfgang visited the age of ten, the convent school of Reichenau and came to the newly established cathedral school in Würzburg later. To 956 he took on the recommendation of his friend Heinrich von Babenberg, Archbishop of Trier, whom he met in Reichenau, the management of the cathedral school in Trier and was there as a layman dean, head of the cathedral chapter. He strove for the purposes of Saint Benedict to reform for a stricter rule of life of the canons such as the abolition of private property.

After the death of Henry of Babenberg Wolfgang was brought by Emperor Otto I to Cologne. He refused to let himself ordained a bishop and entered 965 in the Benedictine monastery of Einsiedeln in Switzerland, where he was ordained a 968 at the age of 43 years by Ulrich of Augsburg as a priest. 971 Wolfgang went as a missionary to Hungary, but was called back 972 and consecrated in late bishop of Regensburg. 975 Wolfgang founded there a cathedral school with choir, from which emerged the present cathedral choir.

Wolfgang, who had continued to work towards reforms, agreed to the separation Bohemian territories establishing the bishopric of Prague. Certainly belonged to this peaceful gesture and the friendly relationship to Boleslav II, whose son Oldrich was educated in Regensburg, as well as at its sister Mlada stayed in Regensburg.

As the first bishop, he was the personal union between the episcopate and the Head Office ( abbacy ) of the associated monastery on St. Emmeram. The first abbot was used Ramwod. This helped the monastery to a surge in development in spiritual and cultural activities. The independence gained conjured up tensions with future Regensburg bishops who sought to make the economic loss reversed by the discontinuation of the monastery for the diocese of Regensburg. Wolfgang's work remained a model for a whole host of monasteries.

As Reich Bishop Wolfgang followed the call of the Emperor to military conflicts, as against King Lothar and the Italian expedition of Otto II, in which the Bishop of Augsburg Henry I fell. After the death of Otto and disputes erupting around the throne, Wolfgang suggested, among other bishops on the side of Henry II and also took over the education of his children.

On a trip to the place belonging to the diocese Poechlarn Wolfgang, died on 31 October 994 in the chapel of St. Othmar in Pupping (Upper Austria ) - now the site of the monastery Pupping - and was buried in the monastery church of St. Emmeram in Regensburg. Wolfgang had his students Tagino provided as a successor, but certain Otto Gebhard I.

Wolfgang was born on October 7, 1052 by Pope Leo IX. canonized.

Worship

Remembrance

The Catholic feast of saints is October 31. It is a day of remembrance not offered in general Roman calendar. His feast is celebrated in Regensburg, where on October 7, the transfer of the relics is celebrated.

Places of Worship

Various locations associated with the veneration of saints in Wolfgang's connection.

  • Hauptverehrungsort of the saint is St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee - both named after him: When he refuge sought in his own monastery Kloster Mondsee 976, is by his own hand the - first small - Church have made it and been miraculous be ( Beilwurf and spring miracle at Falkenstein ). There the Sanctuary Falkenstein is ( parish of St. Gilgen ), where he is said to have lived as a hermit five years. St. Wolfgang with the hermit cave was through the Middle Ages, one of the most important places of pilgrimage in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries to Rome, Aachen and the fourth largest Einsiedeln pilgrimage site
  • On the occasion of the canonization of the bones of the bishop was transferred to the then newly built Wolfgang crypt under the Basilica of St. Emmeram. They rest there since 1877 in the gilded Wolfgang shrine, which is transferred each year at the Wolfgang week of the diocese of Regensburg in the Basilica or any other important church of the diocese
  • Place of worship is also his place of death, the monastery Pupping. The St. Wolfgang chapel was built at that point, coming at the Wolfgang by boat from Passau, should be gone ashore before he was taken to Pupping
  • Under the about 1,250 -year-old St. Wolfgang's Oak at Castle House in Neueglofsheim south of Regensburg Wolfgang to have preached
  • He is worshiped also in Bavaria, St. Wolfgang, Wolfgang where according to legend is said to have awakened a source.

See also: Wolfgang Church to the numerous churches of the saints

Protection and patronage invocation

The saint is the patron saint of Bavaria, diocesan patron saint of the diocese of Regensburg and Regensburg and the professions sculptors, woodworkers, Köhler, carpenters, sailors and shepherds. He is called among other things for gout, paralysis, blood flow, foot ailment, stroke, and skin diseases as well as infertility. In addition, it should help to recovery of diseased cattle.

Iconography

In pictures and statues of saints Wolfgang is always displayed with the saints attributes crosier ( Regensburg ) and church ( St. Wolfgang aW ), sometimes also with a hatchet ( Beilwunder Falkenstein ). There are also three ceramic sculptures that were made by a native of St. Wolfgang sculptor Wolfgang Wallner in the 1950s and will be launched today in an authorized original form.

Folklore

The farmer rules for the feast of Saints are:

  • Rain on the St. Wolfgang's day may be good for the next year.
  • Sankt Wolfgang rain promises one years full blessing.
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