Bend your minds to holy learning, that you may escape the fretting moth of littleness of mind that would wear out your souls. Brace your wills to action that they may not be the spoils of weak desires. Train your hearts and lips to song which gives courage to the soul.
Being buffeted by trials, learn to laugh. Hilda's wisdom was so great that from far and near monks and even royal personages came to consult her. Seven years before her death the saint was stricken down with a grievous fever which never left her till she breathed her last, but, in spite of this, she neglected none of her duties to God or to her subjects.
She passed away most peacefully after receiving the Holy Viaticum , and the tolling of the monastery bell was heard miraculously at Hackness thirteen miles away, where also a devout nun named Begu saw the soul of St.
Hilda borne to heaven by angels. With St. Hilda is intimately connected the story of Caedmon, the sacred bard. When he was brought before St.
Hilda she admitted him to take monastic vows in her monastery , where he most piously died. The cultus of St. Hilda from an early period is attested by the inclusion of her name in the calendar of St. Willibrord , written at the beginning of the eighth century.
It was alleged at a later date the remains of St. Hilda were translated to Glastonbury by King Edmund , but this is only part of the "great Glastonbury myth. There is a local legend that mentions a plague of snakes which Hilda turned into stone, which is supposed to explain curled snake-like ammonite fossils on the shoreline; heads were carved onto these ammonite fossils as an honour to this legend.
The ammonite genus Hildoceras takes its scientific name from St. It was common for local artists to carve snakes' heads onto ammonites and sell them. The coat of arms of nearby Whitby proudly wears three of these ammonites with snakes' heads, and depictions of ammonites can also be found in the shield of the University of Durham's College of St Hild and St Bede. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
The fame of St. Hilda's wisdom was so great that from far and near monks and even royal personages came to consult her. Seven years before her death the saint was stricken down with a grievous fever which never left her till she breathed her last, but, in spite of this, she neglected none of her duties to God or to her subjects.
She passed away most peacefully after receiving the Holy Viaticum, and the tolling of the monastery bell was heard miraculously at Hackness thirteen miles away, where also a devout nun named Begu saw the soul of St.
Hilda borne to heaven by angels. The cultus of St. Hilda from an early period is attested by the inclusion of her name in the calendar of St.
Willibrord, written at the beginning of the eighth century. It was alleged at a later date the remains of St. Hilda were translated to Glastonbury by King Edmund, but this is only part of the "great Glastonbury myth.
Another story states that St. Edmund brought her relics to Gloucester. Hilda's feast seems to have been kept on 17 November. There are a dozen or more old English churches dedicated to St. Hilda on the northeast coast and South Shields is probably a corruption of St.
Moved by the example of her sister Hereswith, who, after marrying Ethelhere of East Anglia, became a nun at Chelles in Gaul, Hilda also journeyed to East Anglia, intending to follow her sister abroad. But St. Aidan recalled her to her own country, and after leading a monastic life for a while on the north bank of the Wear and afterwards at Hartlepool, where she ruled a double monasteryof monks and nuns with great success, Hilda eventually undertook to set in order a monastery at Streaneshalch, a place to which the Danes a century or two later gave the name of Whitby.
With St. Hilda is intimately connected the story of Caedmon, the sacred bard. When he was brought before St. Hilda she admitted him to take monastic vows in her monastery, where he most piously died.
Feastday: November 18 Nov. But Hilda was instead persuaded to enter an English convent in Northumbria. Thereafter, she was chosen to become abbess of the nearby double-monastery of Hartlepool, a religious community of monks and nuns living separately in adjoining convents. Later, she served as abbess of another double monastery that came to be known as Whitby. Hilda was a zealous advocate of Scripture studies. Her great virtue and prudence became known outside the monastery, inspiring the conversions of many sinners.
Toward the end of her life, she suffered from a lingering illness that subjected her to a continuous high fever. Despite her physical misery, she directed her thoughts to offering thanksgiving to God. Hilda is commemorated on November Hilda of Whitby or Hild of Whitby c. An important figure in the conversion of England to Christianity, she was abbess at several monasteries and recognized for the wisdom that drew kings to her for advice. The source of information about Hilda is The Ecclesiastical History of the English by the Venerable Bede in , who was born approximately eight years before her death.
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