Died 871; Farmer gives him two feast days: August 29 and the feast of
his translation, August 12. Saint Edwold is reputed to be the brother of
Saint Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia. He lived on bread and
water as a penitential recluse near Cerne in Dorsetshire. He worked many
miracles and was buried in his cell near which the abbey of Saint
Peter's was built. His relics were later translated into its church
(
Benedictines,
Encyclopaedia,
Farmer).