Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman, Gallican, and Benedictine Martyrologies. Authority: — A Life by an anonymous writer in Mabillon, Acta SS. O.S.B. ssec. i.; Ordericus Vitalis, Hist. EccL Norm. lib. vi. c. 9.] S. Ebrulfus, or, as he is called in France, S. Evroul, was born of honourable parents at Bayeux. He went to the court of Clothair, and married a wife of rank equal to his own. But he soon wearied of life in the world, and persuaded his wife to let him go into a monastery, and live as a monk, and to enter herself into a convent He probably learned the rudiments of the religious life in the abbey of the Deux Jumeaux, founded by S. Martin of Vertou (see October 24). After a while he left the monastery with three companions and went to Montfort — now S. Evroult de Montfort, north of Gacd They were too much interrupted there to obtain the peace they desired, and therefore buried themselves in the forest of Ouche and there established themselves. By degrees others placed themselves under the rule of the saint, and the solitude became populated by monks. Ebrulfus was visited there by King Childebert, who richly endowed the monastery. His queen also built a church there, dedicated to our Lady, now called Notre-Dame-duBois, and placed a marble altar in it, probably an old sarcophagus. One day the devil was caught by S. Ebrulf at Echaufour, “ who threw him into a fiery oven heated in readiness for baking bread, and closed it with an iron plug that he chanced to find. The women who had brought their loaves to be baked, seeing what was done, said, * What, sir, shall we do with our loaves?1 To which he replied, ‘ God is able to bake your loaves without corporeal fire; » tcjOOQle S. Thomas d Becket.

…clear the hearth before the oven, and lay your loaves in order, and you will find them bake without fire/ ” And it was so.