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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 127. Not illustrated. Chapters: Austrian Bishops, French Prelates, German Prelates, Icelandic Prelates, Italian Prelates, Puerto Rican Bishops, William of Hirsau, Gabriele Amorth, Ermolao Barbaro, Felix Von Hartmann, Roberto Gonzalez Nieves, Vinzenz Eduard Milde, Count Hieronymus Von Colloredo, Willibrord Benzler, Adalbero of Wurzburg, Henry of France, Archbishop of Reims, Saint Thorlak, Saint Sturm, Maximilian Aichern, David Andres Alvarez-Velazquez, Alessandro Gavazzi, Johannes Katschthaler, Antoine Court, Sveinbjorn Beinteinsson, Gebhard of Salzburg, Wendelin of Trier, Brynjolfur Sveinsson, Johann Nepomuk Von Tschiderer Zu Gleifheim, Ernest Johann Nepomuk Graf Herberstein, Count Leopold Anton Von Firmian, Juan Bautista de Zengotita Bengoa, Joseph de Tonquedec, Kurt Krenn, Johann Ernst Von Thun, Inaki Mallona Txertudi, Louis Abelly, Leopold Ernst Von Firmian, Franz-Josef Rudigier, Antoine-Eleonor-Leon Leclerc de Juigne, Ardengus, Sigismund Von Schrattenbach, Joseph Anton Gall, Ludwig Schwarz, Dominique-Georges-Frederic Dufour de Pradt, Michael Felix Korum, Waldo of Reichenau, Scipione Piattoli, Gianni Danzi, Hermann Raich, Franz Maria Doppelbauer, Sigismund Ernst Hohenwart. Excerpt: William of Hirsau, or Wilhelm von Hirschau (c. 1030 5 July 1091) was a Benedictine abbot and monastic reformer. He was abbot of Hirsau Abbey, for whom he created the Constitutiones Hirsaugienses, based on the uses of Cluny, and was the father of the Hirsau Reforms, which influenced many Benedictine monasteries in Germany. He supported the papacy in the Investiture Controversy. William was born in Bavaria, possibly in about 1030; nothing more is known of his origins. As a puer oblatus entrusted to the Benedictines he received his spiritual education as a monk in St. Emmeram's Abbey, a private church of the Bishop of Regensburg, where the famous Otloh...
