On 30 September 2026, following a serious illness and strengthened by the Sacraments of the Church, the Reverend Father Martin Mayrhofer OSB, Benedictine monk of Seitenstetten Abbey, passed away in the abbey’s infirmary. Born Leopold Mayrhofer in 1942 in Loosdorf near Melk, he entered the Benedictine novitiate after completing his secondary education at