Saint Ewald the Fair
Also known as
- Hewald the Fair
Profile
Priest. Studied in Ireland. Knew Saint Willibrord of Echternach. Missionary to Saxony with Saint Ewald the Black c.690. Tortured and murdered by pagan Saxons who feared to give up the old religion. Martyr.
Born
- Northumbria, England
- 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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Additional Information
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
