Saint Ebrulf of Ouche

Also known as

• Ebrulfus
• Ebrulphus
• Evroul
• Evroult

Memorial

• 29 December
• 30 August: translation of relics

Profile

Merovingian courtier. A married layman, he made financial arrangements for his wife, who may have later become a nun, and left the court of King Childebert I to become a monk at Deux Jumeaux abbey. He and a small group of brothers left to become hermits in the nearby forest of Ouche. Ebrulf converted a band of highway robbers to the faith. With them, the brothers, and some spiritual students who gathered around them, he founded a small monastery near Ouche, and served as its abbot. It emphasized self-sufficiency for the house, manual labour offered to God for the men, and was so successful that several other small houses were founded nearby.

Born

• 626 in Bayeux, Normandy, France

Died

• 706 of natural causes
• relics translated to Deeping Abbey, England in the 11th and 12th centuries

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Ebrulf of Ouche“. Saints.SQPN.com. 28 January 2013. Web. 21 May 2013. <>