Odwulf of Evesham (or Odulf, Odulph, Odulfo, Odulphus; died 855)William George Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum: A List of Anglo-Saxon Proper Names from the Time of Beda to that of King John. (Cambridge University Press, 2012) Page 363. was a ninth century saint,The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press. monk and Frisian missionary.
Lives
Odwulf is recorded in the medieval Secgan hagiographyStowe MS 944 , British Library the Medieval Hagiography of Saint Ecgwine and the Ave presul glorioseI Augustine psalter, where he is linked with Oda of Canterbury, hagiography of St Odulf, and Chronicon Abbatiae de EveshamMullins, E. L. C. (1958). Texts and Calendars I: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications. (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks No. 7.) London: Royal Historical Society.
Odwuld died in 855 AD. He is buried in Evesham,Evesham Abbey and the Parish Churches: A Guide, p.8; The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, p.387 with Saints Ecgwine and Wigstan.
Monks of Ramsgate account
The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921),
Butler's account
The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under July 18,
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