Two Ewalds

The two holy brothers Ewaldi (also: Willewalde; Ewaldi is the Latin plural) born in Northumbria England, were missionaries in Westphalia and martyrs. They came from the British Isles and contributed to the Christianization of Northern Germany in the 7th century.

After hair color is called the Black and the White Ewald. Both lived for many years in Ireland and studied at Irish universities. Often the two Willewalde are referred to as brothers. Open, however, remains whether they were co-religionists or blood brothers. Franz Flaskamp also opened the possibility that it might well have been cousins.

Your mission activity at the end of the 7th century can be seen in the context of the broader Anglo-Saxon mission in Germany. They were primarily in the legal Rheinische active as before Willibrord among the Frisians, Lebuin among the Saxons and Suitbert on the lip. A generation later, this work was continued by the work of Boniface in Hesse and Thuringia.

The Willewalde themselves were active in the area adjacent to the Frankish kingdom of Saxony, in particular on the Hellweg, on the lip and in the Munsterland. In the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk and historian Bede, who is already the white and black Ewald called, their martyrdom is described. Bede does not mention the place of martyrdom, but by local traditions is believed that this in Aplerbeck ( now a part of Dortmund) took place. A precise dating is difficult, in general, it dates back to a October 3 691-693.

Their relics were transferred by Pippin the Middle to Cologne. Archbishop Anno II, she spent 1074 in the Church of St. Cunibert. In the dioceses of Essen, Cologne, Münster and Paderborn, the holy Willewalde be worshiped on October 3.