Termelines

Termelines, also called Timerlin, is a folk saint of the Rhineland who lived in the 11th century near Nörvenich, in the district of Düren. According to tradition he was a Scottish monk who had lived in a monastery in Ireland. He came to Germany to preach and built himself a hut in the Neffel valley, around which a garden grew. The people of the nearby villages learned gardening and the faith from him.

One dark night robbers attacked him in his cell to rob him and, finding nothing of value, killed him with a club. The villagers argued over where to bury him; the body was laid on a cart and the oxen were left to wander, and they stopped at Ollesheim. A chapel was built there in his honor and he was buried in a crypt. His grave remained a place of pilgrimage until the end of the 18th century.