Everelmus (died 2 October 1060) was a hermit in the vicinity of
Bruges. His hermitage, on an island in the river
Reie, lay at the basis of the later
Eekhout Abbey
Eekhout Abbey ( nl, Eekhoutabdij) was a medieval house of Augustinian Canons in Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium.
History
The origin of the abbey, dedicated to Saint Bartholomew, was traditionally linked to the religious community that had grown ...
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Very little is known about him. He seems to have built a chapel to St Bartholomew near his hermitage, which might indicate that he had been on a pilgrimage to Rome, where St Bartholomew was venerated in a church on an island in the Tiber.
[N. N. Huyghebaert, "Everelmus", in ]
Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek
', vol. 4 (Brussels, 1970), 271-272. A community is attested on the site around 1100, and the abbey of Eekhout, dedicated to St Bartholomew, by 1130. An epitaph to Everelmus, stating that he was buried in the church, survived in the church of St Bartholomew until the
French Revolution.
References
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Further reading
*N. Huyghebaert, "Het grafschrift van de kluizenaar Everelmus en het ontstaan van de Sint-Bartholomeusabdij te Brugge", ''Sacris erudiri'' 12 (1961), 540–567.
*A. Viaene, "De kluizenaar Everelmus te Brugge", ''Biekorf'' 62 (1961), 379.
1060 deaths
Belgian hermits
11th-century Christians