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Detail of Stained Glass Window of Saint Hilda At The Cloister of The Cathedral of Chester England Date And Artist Unknown Photographed On 31 July 2014 By MumS Taxi
Detail of Stained Glass Window of Saint Hilda At The Cloister of The Cathedral of Chester England Date And Artist Unknown Photographed On 31 July 2014 By MumS Taxi

Saint Hilda of Whitby

Also known as: Hild of Whitby

Saint
Pre-Congregation

Feast Day

November 17

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Biography

Saint Hilda of Whitby was the daughter of Hereric and Breguswith, sister of Saint Hereswitha, and grand-niece of King Saint Edwin of Northumbria. She was baptized in 627 at the age of thirteen by Saint Paulinus of York. Hilda lived as a lay woman until age thirty-three, when she entered the Benedictine monastery at Chelles in France....