Saint Ewald the Black

Also known as

• Hewald the Black

Memorial

• 3 October

Profile

Priest. Studied in Ireland. Knew Saint Willibrord of Echternach. Missionary to Saxony with Saint Ewald the Fair c.690. Tortured and murdered by pagan Saxons who feared to give up the old religion. Martyr.

Born

• Northumbria, England

Died

• torn limb from limb c.695 at Aplerbeck, Westphalia
• body thrown into the River Rhine, but they were miraculously moved 40 miles upstream to a place where friends were camping, and then were recovered
• relics translated to the church of Saint Cunibert, Cologne, Germany by Duke Pepin of Austrasia
• some relics translated to the Premonstratensian monastery of Florennes in the province of Namur in 1121 by Saint Norbert
• most relics destroyed by Anabaptists in 1534

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Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• Westphalia

Additional Information

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

MLA Citation

• “Saint Ewald the Black“. Saints.SQPN.com. 28 January 2013. Web. 22 May 2013. <>