The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire . ommitted. Hilda was then at Hartlepool, but shesoon brought her new charge to Strconcschalch; andin or about the year 656 was begun the monastery,described by William of Malmesbury as the largestof those founded by Oswius bounty. If we cannotbelieve all that we are told about Hilda, even on theauthority of the Venerable Bede, it by no means many years, it pleased Him, who has made suchmerciful provision for our salvation, to give her holysoul the trial of a long sickness, to the end that,according to the Apostles example, her virtue mightbe perfected in infirmi
The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire . ommitted. Hilda was then at Hartlepool, but shesoon brought her new charge to Strconcschalch; andin or about the year 656 was begun the monastery,described by William of Malmesbury as the largestof those founded by Oswius bounty. If we cannotbelieve all that we are told about Hilda, even on theauthority of the Venerable Bede, it by no means many years, it pleased Him, who has made suchmerciful provision for our salvation, to give her holysoul the trial of a long sickness, to the end that,according to the Apostles example, her virtue mightbe perfected in infirmity. For six long years, we are told, this sicknesslasted, and in the seventh, having received theviaticum, she called together the servants of Godthat were in the same monastery, and, while exhort-ing them to peace among themselves and universalgoodwill, passed from death to life. That same night it pleased Almighty God, by amanifest vision, to make known her death in anothermonastery at a distance from hers, which she had built. WHITBY , LOOKING EAST. follows that the story of her life and death isbeneath our notice. Hilda was thirty-three when she took the veil,and exactly half her life was, in the technical sense, religious. Guided and advised by the good Aidan,she spent the first year at Cale with her sisterHeresuit, after which she became Abbess of therecently founded convent of Heruteu or Hartlepool,where the baby princess was committed to her foundation at Whitby was for monks as well asnuns, and over both presided as Superior thisservant of Christ, Abbess Hilda, whom all thatknew her called Mother for her singular pietyand grace. The story of her turning the snakesinto stones is too well known, through the referencein Marmion, to bear repeating. Bedes account ofLady Hildas death is perhaps less trite and not lessmarvellous. When she had governed this monastery that same year, and is called Hakenes.* There was inthat monastery a certain nun called Begu, w
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