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A Model Pre-Gregorian Reform Bishop: St. Ulrich of Augsburg
A Model Pre-Gregorian Reform Bishop: St. Ulrich of Augsburg
Send us Fan Mail Back in September Ellen and I did an episode on Popes Leo IX and Gregory VII and their promotion of the Gregorian Reform of the Church. Because my hosting platform informed me that I have 21 minutes left to post a new episode this month, I decided to use that time to do a short episode on the "Church" before it was reformed. Rather than focus on a "bad" bishop like Gaudry of Laon, I chose to examine the career of a saintly bishop, Ulrich of Augsburg (890 – 4 July 973), someti...