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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above n" style="font-size:125%;background-color:gold;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">Saint</a></div><br /><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Wolfgang</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Pfarrkirche_Liesing_-_Wolfgang.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Pfarrkirche_Liesing_-_Wolfgang.jpg/220px-Pfarrkirche_Liesing_-_Wolfgang.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="361" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Pfarrkirche_Liesing_-_Wolfgang.jpg/330px-Pfarrkirche_Liesing_-_Wolfgang.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Pfarrkirche_Liesing_-_Wolfgang.jpg/440px-Pfarrkirche_Liesing_-_Wolfgang.jpg 2x" data-file-width="936" data-file-height="1534" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Saint Wolfgang, stained glass, Parish Church in Leising</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:gold;">The Almoner</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 934</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="dday deathdate">994-10-31</span>)</span>31 October 994</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venerated in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Canonization" title="Canonization">Canonized</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1052 AD by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Leo_IX" title="Pope Leo IX">Pope Leo IX</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">31 October</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Saint_symbolism" title="Saint symbolism">Attributes</a></th><td class="infobox-data">depicted with an axe in the right hand and the <a href="/wiki/Crozier" title="Crozier">crozier</a> in the left; or as a hermit in the wilderness being discovered by a hunter.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Patron_saint" title="Patron saint">Patronage</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Apoplexy" title="Apoplexy">apoplexy</a>; <a href="/wiki/Carpenter" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpenter">carpenters</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wood_carvers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wood carvers">wood carvers</a>; paralysis; <a href="/wiki/Regensburg,_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Regensburg, Germany">Regensburg, Germany</a>; stomach diseases; strokes</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Wolfgang of Regensburg</b> (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Wolfgangus</i>; <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 934 – 31 October 994 AD) was <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Regensburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Regensburg">bishop of Regensburg</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a> from Christmas 972 until his death. He is a <a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">saint</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox">Eastern Orthodox</a> churches. He is regarded as one of the three great <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> saints of the 10th century, the other two being <a href="/wiki/Ulrich_of_Augsburg" title="Ulrich of Augsburg">Ulrich of Augsburg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Conrad_of_Constance" title="Conrad of Constance">Conrad of Constance</a>. Towards the end of his life Wolfgang withdrew as a <a href="/wiki/Hermit" title="Hermit">hermit</a> to a solitary spot, in the <a href="/wiki/Salzkammergut" title="Salzkammergut">Salzkammergut</a> region of <a href="/wiki/Upper_Austria" title="Upper Austria">Upper Austria</a>. Soon after Wolfgang's death many churches chose him as their <a href="/wiki/Patron_saint" title="Patron saint">patron saint</a>, and various towns were named after him. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_of_Regensburg&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wolfgang was descended from the family of the <a href="/wiki/Swabia" title="Swabia">Swabian</a> Counts of <a href="/wiki/Pfullingen" title="Pfullingen">Pfullingen</a>. When seven years old, he had an ecclesiastic as a tutor at home; later he attended the celebrated monastic school at <a href="/wiki/Reichenau_Island" title="Reichenau Island">Reichenau Abbey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Foley_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foley-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Here he formed a strong friendship with <a href="/wiki/Henry_of_Babenberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry of Babenberg">Henry of Babenberg</a>, brother of Bishop <a href="/wiki/Bishopric_of_Wurzburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishopric of Wurzburg">Poppo of Würzburg</a>, whom he followed to Würzburg in order to attend the <a href="/wiki/Lecture" title="Lecture">lectures</a> of the noted Italian <a href="/wiki/Philologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Philologist">grammarian</a> Stephen of <a href="/wiki/Novara" title="Novara">Novara</a> at the cathedral school. </p><p>After Henry was made Archbishop of <a href="/wiki/Trier" title="Trier">Trier</a> in 956, he summoned Wolfgang, who became a teacher in the cathedral school of Trier, and also labored for the reform of the archdiocese,<sup id="cite_ref-Foley_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foley-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> despite the hostility with which his efforts were met. Wolfgang's residence at Trier greatly influenced his monastic and <a href="/wiki/Asceticism" title="Asceticism">ascetic</a> tendencies, as here he came into contact with the great reform monastery of the 10th century, <a href="/wiki/St._Maximin%27s_Abbey,_Trier" title="St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier">St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier</a>, where he made the acquaintance of Ramuold, the teacher of Saint <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_of_Prague" title="Adalbert of Prague">Adalbert of Prague</a>. </p><p>After the death of Archbishop Henry of Trier in 964, Wolfgang entered the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._Benedict" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of St. Benedict">Benedictine order</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Einsiedeln_Abbey" title="Einsiedeln Abbey">Abbey of Maria Einsiedeln</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Foley_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foley-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was <a href="/wiki/Ordination" title="Ordination">ordained</a> priest by <a href="/wiki/Ulrich_of_Augsburg" title="Ulrich of Augsburg">Saint Ulrich</a> in 968. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mission_to_the_Magyars">Mission to the Magyars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_of_Regensburg&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mission to the Magyars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After their defeat in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lechfeld" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of the Lechfeld">Battle of the Lechfeld</a> (955), <a href="/wiki/Hungarians" title="Hungarians">Hungarians</a> settled in ancient <a href="/wiki/Pannonia" title="Pannonia">Pannonia</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Otto_the_Great" title="Otto the Great">Otto the Great</a>, Wolfgang, according to the abbey annals, was "sent to the Hungarians" as the most suitable man to evangelize them.<sup id="cite_ref-Schmid_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schmid-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was followed by other <a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">missionaries</a> sent by <a href="/wiki/Piligrim" title="Piligrim">Piligrim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Passau" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Passau">Bishop of Passau</a>, under whose jurisdiction the new missionary region came.<sup id="cite_ref-Schmid_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schmid-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bishop_of_Regensburg">Bishop of Regensburg</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_of_Regensburg&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Bishop of Regensburg"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wolfgang_of_Regensburg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Wolfgang_of_Regensburg.jpg/170px-Wolfgang_of_Regensburg.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Wolfgang_of_Regensburg.jpg/255px-Wolfgang_of_Regensburg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Wolfgang_of_Regensburg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="262" data-file-height="397" /></a><figcaption>Saint Wolfgang altar painting, made <span title="circa">c.</span><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1490</span></figcaption></figure> <p>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 (<a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> 972). Wolfgang's services in this new position were of the highest importance. As Bishop of Regensburg, Wolfgang became the tutor of Emperor Saint <a href="/wiki/Henry_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor">Henry II</a>, who learned from him the principles which governed his life.<sup id="cite_ref-SHMI_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SHMI-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Poppe, son of <a href="/wiki/Margrave" title="Margrave">Margrave</a> Luitpold, <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Trier" class="mw-redirect" title="Archbishop of Trier">Archbishop of Trier</a> (1018), and <a href="/wiki/Tagino,_Archbishop_of_Magdeburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Tagino, Archbishop of Magdeburg">Tagino, Archbishop of Magdeburg</a> (1004–1012), also had him as their teacher.<sup id="cite_ref-Schmid_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schmid-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wolfgang deserves credit for his disciplinary labours in his diocese. His main work in this respect was connected with the ancient and celebrated <a href="/wiki/St._Emmeram%27s_Abbey" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Emmeram's Abbey">St. Emmeram's Abbey</a>, 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 <i><a href="/wiki/In_commendam" title="In commendam">in commendam</a></i>, 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). </p><p>Wolfgang was an advocate of the monastic reforms of <a href="/wiki/Gorze_Abbey" title="Gorze Abbey">Gorze Abbey</a> which aimed at a reestablishing adherence to the <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_St._Benedict" class="mw-redirect" title="Rule of St. Benedict">Rule of St. Benedict</a>. He also reformed the convents of <a href="/wiki/Oberm%C3%BCnster" class="mw-redirect" title="Obermünster">Obermünster</a> and <a href="/wiki/Niederm%C3%BCnster" class="mw-redirect" title="Niedermünster">Niedermünster</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Niederaltaich_Abbey" title="Niederaltaich Abbey">Niederaltaich</a>, which had been founded by the <a href="/wiki/Agilolfing" class="mw-redirect" title="Agilolfing">Agilolfinger</a> dynasty, and which from that time took on new life. </p><p>He showed genuine episcopal generosity in the liberal manner with which he met the views of the Emperor <a href="/wiki/Otto_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto II">Otto II</a> regarding the intended reduction in size of his diocese for the benefit of the new Diocese of <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a> (975), to which <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_of_Prague" title="Adalbert of Prague">Adalbert of Prague</a> was appointed first bishop.<sup id="cite_ref-Agasso_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Agasso-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Ottonian" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottonian">Ottonian</a> policies. </p><p>He took part in the various imperial <a href="/wiki/Diet_(assembly)" title="Diet (assembly)">Diets</a>, and, in the autumn of 978, accompanied the Emperor Otto II on his campaign to <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, and took part in the Diet of <a href="/wiki/Verona" title="Verona">Verona</a> in June 983. He was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Gebhard_I,_Bishop_of_Regensburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Gebhard I, Bishop of Regensburg">Gebhard I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hermitage_and_death">Hermitage and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_of_Regensburg&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hermitage and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pupping_-_Gedenkstein_f%C3%BCrn_hl._Wolfgang.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Pupping_-_Gedenkstein_f%C3%BCrn_hl._Wolfgang.JPG/170px-Pupping_-_Gedenkstein_f%C3%BCrn_hl._Wolfgang.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Pupping_-_Gedenkstein_f%C3%BCrn_hl._Wolfgang.JPG/255px-Pupping_-_Gedenkstein_f%C3%BCrn_hl._Wolfgang.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Pupping_-_Gedenkstein_f%C3%BCrn_hl._Wolfgang.JPG/340px-Pupping_-_Gedenkstein_f%C3%BCrn_hl._Wolfgang.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3800" data-file-height="5700" /></a><figcaption>Memorial stone regarding the place of death of St. Wolfgang</figcaption></figure> <p>Apparently on account of a political dispute between Duke <a href="/wiki/Henry_II_of_Bavaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry II of Bavaria">Henry II of Bavaria</a> and Emperor <a href="/wiki/Otto_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto II</a>, Wolfgang spent a year at Mondsee in 976. From there he withdrew as a <a href="/wiki/Hermit" title="Hermit">hermit</a> to a solitary spot, now the <a href="/wiki/Wolfgangsee" class="mw-redirect" title="Wolfgangsee">Wolfgangsee</a> (<i>"Wolfgang's Lake"</i>) in the <a href="/wiki/Salzkammergut" title="Salzkammergut">Salzkammergut</a> region of <a href="/wiki/Upper_Austria" title="Upper Austria">Upper Austria</a>. He was discovered by a hunter and brought back to Regensburg. </p><p>While travelling on the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> to <a href="/wiki/P%C3%B6chlarn" title="Pöchlarn">Pöchlarn</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Austria" title="Lower Austria">Lower Austria</a>, he fell ill at the village of <a href="/wiki/Pupping" title="Pupping">Pupping</a>, which is between <a href="/wiki/Eferding" title="Eferding">Eferding</a> and the market town of <a href="/wiki/Aschach_an_der_Donau" title="Aschach an der Donau">Aschach</a> near <a href="/wiki/Linz" title="Linz">Linz</a>, and at his request was carried into the chapel of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Othmar" title="Saint Othmar">Saint Othmar</a> at Pupping, where he died.<sup id="cite_ref-Agasso_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Agasso-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His body was taken up the Danube by his friends Count Aribo of <a href="/wiki/Andechs" title="Andechs">Andechs</a> and Archbishop Hartwich of <a href="/wiki/Salzburg" title="Salzburg">Salzburg</a> to Regensburg, and was solemnly buried in the crypt of Saint Emmeram. Many <a href="/wiki/Miracle" title="Miracle">miracles</a> were reported at his grave; in 1052 he was canonized. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Veneration">Veneration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_of_Regensburg&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Veneration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Detail_hl._Wolfgang.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Detail_hl._Wolfgang.JPG/170px-Detail_hl._Wolfgang.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Detail_hl._Wolfgang.JPG/255px-Detail_hl._Wolfgang.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Detail_hl._Wolfgang.JPG/340px-Detail_hl._Wolfgang.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3333" data-file-height="5000" /></a><figcaption>Saint Wolfgang as depicted in the <a href="/wiki/Kefermarkt_altarpiece" title="Kefermarkt altarpiece">Kefermarkt altarpiece</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Soon after Wolfgang's death many churches chose him as their <a href="/wiki/Patron_saint" title="Patron saint">patron saint</a>, and various towns were named after him. </p><p>Wolfgang is sometimes counted among the <a href="/wiki/Fourteen_Holy_Helpers" title="Fourteen Holy Helpers">Fourteen Holy Helpers</a>. He is the patron saint of woodcutters.<sup id="cite_ref-Agasso_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Agasso-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Christian_art" title="Christian art">Christian art</a> he has been especially honoured by the medieval <a href="/wiki/County_of_Tyrol" title="County of Tyrol">Tyrolean</a> painter <a href="/wiki/Michael_Pacher" title="Michael Pacher">Michael Pacher</a> (1430–1498), who created an imperishable memorial to him, the high altar of <a href="/wiki/St._Wolfgang_(village)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Wolfgang (village)">St. Wolfgang</a>. In the panel pictures which are now exhibited in the <a href="/wiki/Alte_Pinakothek" title="Alte Pinakothek">Old Pinakothek</a> at <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> are depicted in an artistic manner the chief events in the saint's life. The <a href="/wiki/Kefermarkt_altarpiece" title="Kefermarkt altarpiece">Kefermarkt altarpiece</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kefermarkt" title="Kefermarkt">Kefermarkt</a> in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Austria" title="Upper Austria">Upper Austria</a> is another monumental Late Gothic piece of art dedicated to the saint. </p><p>The oldest portrait of Wolfgang is a <a href="/wiki/Miniature_(illuminated_manuscript)" title="Miniature (illuminated manuscript)">miniature</a>, painted about the year 1100 in the Evangeliary of Saint Emmeram, now in the library of the castle cathedral at <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a>. </p><p>A modern picture by <a href="/wiki/Moritz_von_Schwind" title="Moritz von Schwind">Schwind</a> is in the <a href="/wiki/Schackgalerie" title="Schackgalerie">Schack Gallery</a> at Munich. This painting represents the <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legend</a> of Wolfgang forcing the <a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">devil</a> to help him to build a church. </p><p>In other paintings he is generally depicted in episcopal dress, an <a href="/wiki/Axe" title="Axe">axe</a> in the right hand and the <a href="/wiki/Crozier" title="Crozier">crozier</a> in the left, or as a hermit in the wilderness being discovered by a hunter. </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/God_in_Christianity" title="God in Christianity">God</a> intended he should build his <a href="/wiki/Monastic_cell" title="Monastic cell">cell</a>. This axe is still shown in the little market town of <a href="/wiki/St._Wolfgang_(village)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Wolfgang (village)">St. Wolfgang</a> which sprang up on the spot of the old cell. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literature">Literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_of_Regensburg&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the request of the Abbey of St. Emmeram, the life of Wolfgang was written by <a href="/wiki/Otloh_of_St._Emmeram" class="mw-redirect" title="Otloh of St. Emmeram">Otloh</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>, and it forms the basis of all later accounts of the saint. </p><p>The oldest and best manuscript of this <i>Vita</i> is in the library of <a href="/wiki/Einsiedeln_Abbey" title="Einsiedeln Abbey">Einsiedeln Abbey</a> in <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> (MS. No. 322), and has been printed with critical notes in <i>Mon. Germ. His.: Script.</i>, IV, 524–542. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_of_Regensburg&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Catholicism/Patron_Archive/October_31" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Catholicism/Patron Archive/October 31">Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg, patron saint archive</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_of_Regensburg&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Foley-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Foley_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Foley_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Foley_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1185">Foley, Leonard. "St. Wolfgang of Regensburg", <i>Saint of the Day</i>, Franciscan Media</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Schmid-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Schmid_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Schmid_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Schmid_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15682b.htm">Schmid, Ulrich. "St. Wolfgang." The Catholic Encyclopedia</a> Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 4 January 2023 <span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/24px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196" /></span></span> This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-SHMI-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-SHMI_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFPaolo_O._Pirlo1997" class="citation book cs1">Paolo O. Pirlo (1997). "St. Henry". <i>My First Book of Saints</i>. Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate - Quality Catholic Publications. p. 148. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/971-91595-4-5" title="Special:BookSources/971-91595-4-5"><bdi>971-91595-4-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=St.+Henry&rft.btitle=My+First+Book+of+Saints&rft.pages=148&rft.pub=Sons+of+Holy+Mary+Immaculate+-+Quality+Catholic+Publications&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=971-91595-4-5&rft.au=Paolo+O.+Pirlo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+of+Regensburg" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Agasso-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Agasso_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Agasso_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Agasso_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/75850">Agasso, Domenico. "San Volfango di Ratisbona", Santi e Beati, February 1, 2001</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bernhardt, John W., <i>Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c. 936–1075</i>. 1993, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 102, n.62]</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <dl><dt>Attribution</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchmid1913" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Schmid, Ulrich (1913). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/St._Wolfgang" class="extiw" title="s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/St. Wolfgang">St. Wolfgang</a>". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia">Catholic Encyclopedia</a></i>. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=St.+Wolfgang&rft.btitle=Catholic+Encyclopedia&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Robert+Appleton+Company&rft.date=1913&rft.aulast=Schmid&rft.aufirst=Ulrich&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWolfgang+of+Regensburg" class="Z3988"></span> This entry cites: <ul><li><i>Der heilige Wolfgang, Bischof von Regensburg; historische Festschrift zum neunhundertjährigen Gedächtnisse seines Todes</i>, ed., in connection with numerous historical scholars, by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Baptist_Mehler" title="Johann Baptist Mehler">MEHLER</a> (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. 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