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Also known as

• Ivi
• Ivy
• Iwigius
• Ywi
• Ywio
• Ywy

Memorial

• 6 October
• 2 March on some calendars
• 8 October on some calendars

Profile

Monk of Lindisfarne Abbey. Deacon. Spiritual student of Saint Cuthbert at Lindisfarne. Following the Irish ideal of an “exile for Christ”, he took ship without bothering to ask its destination, planning to evangelize where it landed. It turned out to be Brittany, where he lived as a hermit and followed a ministry of miraculous healing.

About 250 years later a group of Breton monks carrying the relics of Ivi arrived at Wilton abbey in southwest England. When they were ready to leave they found they could not move the relics; they had found a home at the abbey altar, and the monks were forced to leave them behind.

Born

• 7th century Northumbria, England

Died

• 6 October, c.704, exact year unknown, of natural causes
• relics at Wilton Abbey

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

MLA Citation

• “Saint Iwi“. CatholicSaints.Info. 18 April 2023. Web. 26 April 2024. <>