Daily Martyrology for October 31

At Regensburg, about 994, St. Wolfgang, bishop. He was educated at Reichenau and then at Würzburg. He befriended a nobleman named Henry, and when Henry became archbishop of Trier, Wolfgang became a teacher in the cathedral school. He then became a monk at Einsiedeln. St. Ulric of Augsburg (July 4) sent him to evangelize the Magyars. In 972 Otto II appointed him bishop of Regensburg. He proved himself a keen reformer and champion of he poor. He was a tutor to St. Henry II (July 13).

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Our daily martyrology was written by Fr. Hugh Feiss, OSB. Copyright © 2008 by the Monastery of the Ascension, Jerome, ID 83338.