[2] Ebrulf entered the abbey of Deux Jumeaux before deciding to become a hermit at Exmes, but there, crowds came to visit and ask for his advice,[1] so he and three companions settled in the densely wooded Pays d'Ouche in Normandy.

Repenting of his own sins, the robber brought a gift consisting of three loaves baked in ashes and a honeycomb, and asked to be admitted as a monk.

He founded other monastic houses, fifteen in total, all of which placed emphasis on manual labor both as a spiritual and economic exercise.

[3] The Historia Ecclesiastica of the Benedictine chronicler Orderic Vitalis contains the earliest Vita Sancti Ebrulfi (Life of St.

"[5] Cardiff Central Library holds a manuscript that contains a "Life" of Ebrulf, possibly compiled for the nuns of Barking Abbey.