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June 10 · —

St. Evermund

St. Evermund, Ar

Traditional feast

June 10
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on June 10 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican and Benedictine Martyrologies. Authority: — A life in the old Breviary of Senlis, but so full of chronological errors as to be of slender authority.] Evermund left Bayeux, where he was born, at an early age, to live at Court His good qualities endeared him to the king, and he might have attained to honours had not his heart been drawn heavenwards. His wife, feeling the same desire to quit the world, he retired into a solitary place in Lower Normandy, and she entered a convent He afterwards founded the abbey of Fontenay, and was its first abbot

Feast days

Feast: June 10

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Evermund's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Bl. Bardo of Mainz

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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.