Saint Ebrulf of Ouche
- Also known as
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Ebrulfus
Evroul
Evroult
- Memorial
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29 December
30 August: translation of relics
- Profile
- Merovingian courtier.
A married layman, he arranged 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
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Catholic Online
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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