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SAINT FEAST DAY 31 OCTOBER: ST WOLFGANG, BISHOP OF REGENSBURG

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 31st of October WELCOME! SAINT WOLFGANG, BISHOP OF REGENSBURG Saint Wolfgang was a native of Swabia, and at seven years of age was put into the hands of a neighbouring virtuous ecclesiastic; but some time after removed to the abbey of Reichenau (in Latin Augia ), founded by Charles Martel in 724, near Constance, united in 1536 to the bishopric of Constance.  HE WAS VERY EDUCATED Here he came in contact with a young nobleman called Henry, brother to Poppo, bishop of Würzburg, who had set up a great school in that city, and engaged an Italian professor, called Stephen. Henry, who was charmed with his virtue prevailed upon him to bear him company to this new school at Würzburg. Once when a difficult passage in an author raised a contest among the scholars about the sense, Wolfgang explained it with so much perspicuity and evidence, that in all perplexing difficulties the rest had recourse to him, rather than to the master....