Saint Hildelith of Barking
- Also known as
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Hildelid of Barking
Hildelida of Barking
Hildelitha of Barking
Hildeltha of Barking
Hildilid of Barking
- Memorial
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24 March
7 March (translation of relics)
23 September (translation of relics)
3 September on some calendars
22 December on some calendars
- Profile
- Anglo-Saxon princess, well educated and very cultured; could read Latin.
Spent most of her youth in France.
Nun at Chelles and Faremoutiers-en-Brie, France.
Recalled to England by Saint Erconwald to train his sister, Saint Ethelburga of Barking.
When Ethelburga became an abbess, Hildelith stayed as a nun.
Abbess c.675.
Much admired by Saint Aldhelm, Saint Bede the Venerable and Saint Boniface.
Visionary.
- Born
- in England
- Died
- c.712 of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Additional Information
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For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Kirken i Norge -norwegian
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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