Saint Ewald le blanc et Ewald le noir

The Two Ewalds (Ewaldi or Hewald), also known as Saint Ewald the Dark and Saint Ewald the Fair, were 7th-century Christian martyrs venerated in Old Saxony, a region largely corresponding to modern-day Westphalia. Benedictine monks, they set out to evangelize the peoples of Germania in 690 and died as martyrs among the Saxons in 695. Considered martyrs and saints in the Catholic Church, they are the patron saints of the Westphalia region. Their joint feast day is celebrated on October 3 (or locally on October 12) in the Roman Martyrology. The two brothers were distinguished by their contemporaries based on their hair color: one was fair-haired and the other dark-haired, leading to the designations Ewald the Fair and Ewald the Dark, or Ewald the White and Ewald the Black, depending on the source.