Aug 232009
Also known as
- Ethelwald the Hermit
- Oidilwald of Farne
- Oidilwald the Hermit
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Priest. Benedictine monk at the monastery of Ripon, England. Hermit on the island of Inner Farne, England in 687. A miracle worker, his prayers were known to stop storms that threatened visitors to his island.
- spring 699 of natural causes
- interred at Lindisfarne next to Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne and Saint Edbert of Lindisfarne
- relics moved from place to place with those of Saint Cuthbert
- relics re-interred in Durham cathedral
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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