He attended to the bishop on his deathbed and ensured his burial in the church of the Norbertine Priory of Our Lady there, which Norbert had formed from the members of the cathedral chapter.

A few months before his death in 1134, Norbert appointed Evermode acting provost of the Priory of Gottesgnaden.

The evangelization of the Wendish population was a primary goal of his episcopacy, and he traveled around the diocese, preaching to the people in their native language.

[2] Evermode is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg, which now covers that region, and in the Norbertine Order.

[4] The Evermode Institute of the Corpus Christi Priory, St. Michael Abbey is named in honor of St.