Saint Ewald the Black
- Also known as
- Hewald the Black
- Memorial
- 3 October
- Profile
- Priest.
Studied in Ireland.
Knew Saint Willibrord.
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;
bodies thrown into the Rhine, but they were miraculously moved 40 miles upstream to a place where friends were camping, and they 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
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
- Westphalia
- Additional Information
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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
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