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| birth_date      = c. 614
| death_date      = 17 November 680
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'''Hilda of Whitby''' (or '''Hild'''; c. 614 – 680) was a [[saint]] of the early Church in Britain. She was the founder and first [[abbess]] of the [[monastery]] at [[Whitby]] which was chosen as the venue for the [[Synod of Whitby]] in 664. An important figure in the [[Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England]], she was abbess in several convents and recognised for the wisdom that drew kings to her for advice.

The source of information about Hilda is the ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'' by [[Bede]] in 731, who was born approximately eight years before her death. He documented much of the Christian conversion of the [[Anglo-Saxons|English]].

== Early life ==
According to Bede, Hilda was born in 614 into the [[Deira]]n royal household. She was the second daughter of Hereric, nephew of [[Edwin of Northumbria|Edwin, King of Deira]], and his wife, Breguswīþ.{{sfn|Kiefer|1999}} When Hilda was still an infant, her father was poisoned while in exile at the court of the [[Celtic Britons|Brittonic]] king of [[Elmet]] in what is now [[West Yorkshire]]. In 616, Edwin, fighting alongside Rædwald of East Anglia with whom he sought protection, defeated [[Æthelfrith]], the son of [[Æthelric of Bernicia]], in battle. He created the [[Kingdom of Northumbria]] and took its throne. Hilda was brought up at King Edwin's court.

In 625, the widowed Edwin married the Christian princess [[Æthelburh of Kent]], daughter of King [[Æthelberht of Kent]] and the [[Merovingian dynasty|Merovingian]] princess [[Bertha of Kent]]. As part of the marriage contract, Aethelburh was allowed to continue her Roman Christian worship and was accompanied to Northumbria with her chaplain, [[Paulinus of York]], a Roman monk sent to England in 601 to assist [[Augustine of Canterbury]]. Augustine's mission in England was based in Kent, and is referred to as the [[Gregorian mission]] after the pope who sent him.<ref name=Bognor/> As queen, Æthelburh continued to practise her Christianity and no doubt influenced her husband's thinking as her mother Bertha had influenced her father.

In 627, King Edwin was [[baptism|baptised]] on [[Easter]] Day, 12 April, along with his entire [[courtier|court]], which included the 13-year-old Hilda,<ref name=Bognor/> in a small wooden church hastily constructed for the occasion near the site of the present [[York Minster]].

In 633, Northumbria was overrun by the neighbouring pagan King of Mercia, at which time King Edwin fell in battle. Paulinus accompanied Hilda and Queen Æthelburh and her companions to the Queen's home in Kent. Queen Æthelburh founded a convent at [[Lyminge]] and it is assumed that Hilda remained with the Queen-Abbess.<ref name=Katoomba />

Hilda's elder sister, [[Hereswith]], married Ethelric, brother of King [[Anna of East Anglia]], who with all of his daughters became renowned for their Christian virtues. Later, Hereswith became a nun at [[Chelles Abbey]] in [[Gaul]] (modern [[France]]). Bede resumes Hilda's story at a point when she was about to join her widowed sister at Chelles Abbey. At the age of 33, Hilda decided instead to answer the call of Bishop [[Aidan of Lindisfarne]] and returned to Northumbria to live as a [[nun]].{{sfn|Lindemann|2014}}

==Abbess==
[[File:Detail from St. Hilda at Hartlepool by James Clark (Oil Painting).jpg|thumb|left|Saint Hilda at Hartlepool by [[James Clark (artist)|James Clark]] (oil painting)]]
Hilda's original convent is not known except that it was on the north bank of the [[River Wear]]. Here, with a few companions, she learned the traditions of [[Celtic Christianity|Celtic]] [[monasticism]], which Bishop Aidan brought from [[Iona]]. After a year Aidan appointed Hilda as the second [[abbess]] of [[Hartlepool Abbey]].{{sfn|Thurston|1910}} No trace remains of this abbey, but its monastic cemetery has been found near the present [[St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool|St Hilda's Church]], [[Hartlepool]].

In 657 Hilda became the founding abbess of [[Whitby Abbey]], then known as ''Streoneshalh''; she remained there until her death.<ref name=ohp/> Archaeological evidence shows that her monastery was in the Celtic style, with its members living in small houses, each for two or three people. The tradition in double monasteries, such as Hartlepool and Whitby, was that men and women lived separately but worshipped together in church. The exact location and size of the church associated with this monastery is unknown.

Bede states that the original ideals of monasticism were maintained strictly in Hilda's abbey. All property and goods were held in common; Christian virtues were exercised, especially [[peace]] and [[Charity (virtue)|charity]].<ref name=northern>[http://northernsaints.com/ "Northern Saints", 'This is Durham', Durham County Council]</ref> Everyone had to study the [[Bible]] and do good works.

Five men from this monastery later became [[bishop]]s.{{sfn|Thurston|1910}} Two, [[John of Beverley]], Bishop of Hexham and [[Wilfrid II (bishop of York)|Wilfrid]], Bishop of York, were [[Canonization|canonized]] for their service to the Christian church at a critical period in its fight against paganism.

== Character ==
[[File:St Aidan visits St Hilda.JPG|thumb|[[Aidan of Lindisfarne]] visits Hilda. [[Gloucester Cathedral]], by [[Christopher Whall]].]]
Bede describes Hilda as a woman of great energy, who was a skilled administrator and teacher. As a landowner she had many in her employ to care for sheep and cattle, farming, and woodcutting. She gained such a reputation for wisdom that kings and princes sought her advice.{{sfn|Thurston|1910}} However, she also had a concern for ordinary folk such as [[Cædmon]]. He was a herder at the monastery, who was inspired in a dream to sing verses in praise of God. Hilda recognized his gift and encouraged him to develop it. Bede writes, "All who knew her called her mother because of her outstanding devotion and grace".<ref name=ohp/>

== Synod of Whitby ==
The prestige of Whitby is reflected in the fact that King [[Oswiu]] of Northumberland chose Hilda's monastery as the venue for the [[Synod of Whitby]],<ref name=Bognor /> the first [[synod]] of the Church in his kingdom. He invited churchmen from as far away as [[Wessex]] to attend the synod. Most of those present, including Hilda, accepted the King's decision to adopt the method of calculating [[Easter]] currently used in [[Rome]], establishing Roman practice as the norm in Northumbria. The monks from [[Lindisfarne]], who would not accept this, withdrew to [[Iona]], and later to [[Ireland]].<ref>Colgrave, ''Earliest Life of Gregory the Great'', p. 9.</ref>

== Illness and death ==
Hilda suffered from a fever for the last seven years of her life, but she continued to work until her death on 17 November 680&nbsp;AD, at what was then the advanced age of sixty-six. In her last year she set up another monastery, fourteen miles from Whitby, at [[Hackness]]. She died after receiving [[viaticum]], and her legend holds that at the moment of her death the bells of the monastery of Hackness tolled. A nun there named [[Begu (nun)|Begu]] claimed to have witnessed Hilda's soul being borne to heaven by angels.<ref name=acc />

==Legends==
[[File:St Hilda memorial ammonites.jpg|thumb|St. Hilda monument detail in Whitby. Note ammonites at feet.]]
A local legend says that when sea birds fly over the abbey they dip their wings in honour of Saint Hilda. Another legend tells of a plague of [[snake]]s which Hilda turned to stone, supposedly explaining the presence of [[ammonite]] [[fossils]] on the shore. Local artisans carved snakes' heads onto ammonites, and sold these as relics, "evidence" of her miracle.{{sfn|Lovett|1905|pp=333-334}} 

In fact, the ammonite genus ''[[Hildoceras]]'' takes its scientific name from St. Hilda. The coat of arms of nearby Whitby includes three such 'snakestones', and depictions of ammonites appear in the shield of the [[University of Durham]]'s [[College of St Hild and St Bede]].<ref name=dur.ac.uk /> 

A carved ammonite stone is set into the wall by the entrance to the former chapel of St Hild's College, Durham, which later became part of the College of St Hild and St Bede. The coat of arms of [[St Hilda's College, Oxford|St. Hilda's College, Oxford]], includes a curled snake, and the ammonite is used by the college as a symbol.

==Veneration==
The veneration of Hilda from an early period is attested by the inclusion of her name in the calendar of Saint Willibrord, written at the beginning of the 8th century. According to one tradition, her relics were translated to Glastonbury by King Edmund; another tradition holds that Saint Edmund brought her relics to Gloucester.<ref>[http://www.oodegr.com/english/biographies/arxaioi/Hilda_Whitby.htm "The Venerable Hilda, Abbess of Whitby", Orthodox Outlet for Dogmatic Enquiries]</ref>

In the [[Roman Catholic Church]], the feast day of Saint Hilda is 17 November. In some parts of the [[Anglican Communion]], her [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|feast]], a [[Lesser Festival (Anglicanism)|Lesser Festival]], is on 18 November, while in some others, such as the Anglican Church of Australia, it is on 17 November. In the [[Church of England]] however, it is kept on 19 November.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=10 April 2021|website=The Church of England|language=en}}</ref> In the calendar approved for formerly Anglican [[Personal Ordinariate]] and [[Pastoral Provision]] parishes in the Roman Catholic Church, the feast day of Saint Hilda is celebrated on 23 June, together with those of Saint [[Æthelthryth|Ethelreda]], Abbess of Ely (died 679), and Saint [[Mildthryth|Mildred]], Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet (died ca. 700).

==Patronage==
Hilda of Whitby is considered one of the [[patron saint]]s of learning and culture, including poetry, due to her patronage of Cædmon. Saint Hilda is the patron saint of the National Cathedral School for Girls in [[Washington, D.C.]]

In addition, [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]], established in 1893 for female students, remained with that status for more than 100 years, before turning co-educational when it was deemed that the percentage of women studying at Oxford had risen to near 50 per cent. The symbol of the college is the ammonite of St Hilda and during the centenary, 100 silver ammonites were created; now proudly owned by alumnae of the college in honour of St. Hilda's achievements - and those of the first 100 years of female students at the college.<ref name=oxfordcollege />

==Iconography==
Saint Hilda is generally depicted with a pastoral staff and carrying an abbey church. Often, there are ammonites at her feet.<ref name=ohp />

== Legacy ==
[[File:Whitby Abbey 060615.jpg|thumb|Whitby Abbey]]

===Whitby Abbey===
{{main|Whitby Abbey}}
Hilda was succeeded as abbess by [[Eanflæd]], widow of King Oswiu, and their daughter, [[Ælfflæd of Whitby|Ælfflæd]]. From then onward we know nothing about the abbey at Whitby until it was destroyed by the Danish invaders in 867. After the [[Norman conquest of England|Norman conquest]] that began in 1066 AD, monks from [[Evesham, Worcestershire|Evesham]] re-founded the [[Whitby Abbey|abbey]] as a [[Benedictine]] house for men. Thus it continued until the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] by [[Henry VIII]] in 1539.

There is said to be the wraith of St Hilda, who appears in the ruins wrapped in a shroud, and the bells of the abbey can be heard ringing under the water, where they sank with the ship taking them to London after the abbey was dismantled.<ref name=melbourne />

===Churches===
Two churches in Whitby ([[Roman Catholic]]<ref name=RCParish /> and [[Anglican]]), have been dedicated under her patronage and another, in [[Bilsborrow]], [[Lancashire]].

Other Anglican Churches dedicated to St Hilda in Northern England include [[St Hilda's Church, South Shields]], one in the Cross Green area of Leeds, one in the Prestwich Area of Manchester, one in the Stretford Area of Manchester, and another in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. It was opened in September 1882.  An orthodox Christian church dedicated to her is due to open in Halifax West Yorkshire in 2025.There is a statue of St Hilda in the nave, depicting her as the Mother of her Abbey at Whitby. She also appears in a stained glass window at the east end of the church. The church still is active and a sung mass is held there every Sunday. Several small streets in the immediate area are named after the church -- St Hilda's Mount, St Hilda's Road, among them. St Hilda's Church, Crofton Park, in the Diocese of Southwark, is also dedicated to St Hilda.

===Religious communities===
A community of [[Anglican]] sisters, the [[Order of the Holy Paraclete]] was founded in 1915 at St Hilda's Priory,<ref name=sneatoncastle.co.uk /> on the western edge of Whitby town. More recently, the Community of St Aidan and St Hilda has been founded on [[Lindisfarne]].

A group of [[Anglo-Catholic]] deaconesses founded in 1910 by Fr Frederick Burgess lived on the grounds of Christ Church, New Haven, Connecticut, in a house they called St Hilda's House. The deaconesses of St Hilda's House served the church, the children of the church school, and the poor and orphaned of New Haven until the early 1970s operating a free medicine clinic, soup kitchen and many other ministries. Today, St Hilda's House-[[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] Service Corps program at Christ Church New Haven has retained the name, and part of the legacy of the St Hilda's deaconesses.<ref>[http://sainthildashouse.org/ Saint Hilda's House, New Haven, Connecticut]</ref>

===Educational institutions===
St Hilda has become the patron of many schools and colleges all over the world. The [[College of St Hild and St Bede]], Durham, [[St Hild's Church of England School]], [[Hartlepool]], [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]] and [[St Hilda's Collegiate School]], [[Dunedin]] are named after Saint Hilda. A stone from the 13th century ruins of Whitby Abbey where St Hilda founded the Monastery of Streoneshalh c. 657AD was donated to [[St Hilda's College (University of Melbourne)]] by the Whitby Urban Council. This stone is located at the college entrance.<ref name=melbourne/>

[[St. Hilda's College, University of Toronto]] is the women's college of [[University of Trinity College]]. Saint Hilda is honoured as co-patron (with [[Blessed Virgin Mary|Our Lady]]). Daily services are held in the Lady Chapel by Trinity's Faculty of Divinity.

St Hilda's Diocesan High School is an [[Anglican]] boarding school for girls in Brown's Town, St. Ann, [[Jamaica]], founded by Canon James Philip Hall, Rector of St. Mark's Anglican Church in Brown's Town 1906-07. St. Hilda's College in Buenos Aires, Argentina was founded in 1912.

There are two schools situated in Australia in recognition of St. Hilda. They are both 'St. Hilda's Anglican School for Girls' which is an independent, girls' school in [[Southport, Queensland]],<ref>[http://www.sthildas.qld.edu.au/ St Hilda's, Southport]</ref> and [[Mosman Park]], [[Western Australia]].<ref>[http://www.sthildas.wa.edu.au/ St Hilda's, Mosman Park]</ref>

On the upper west side of [[Manhattan]] in New York City is St Hilda's and St Hugh's School, an independent Episcopal day school that opened its doors in 1950. The school is coeducational and includes toddlers to grade eight.

St Hilda is honoured in [[Singapore]] in the St. Hilda's primary and secondary schools.

During the [[British Empire]] in [[India]], Anglican missionaries built "St Hilda Boarding School" at [[Miri-Maka]].

There are two St Hilda's CofE Primary Schools in Manchester - one in [[Prestwich]], one in [[Firswood]]. 

St Hilda's School, Ootacamund, southern India was established by Church of England sisters in 1895.

===Fiction===
Hilda appears as a main character in the 1994 novel ''Absolution by Murder'', the first book in [[Peter Tremayne]]'s [[Sister Fidelma mysteries]].

Hilda appears as a main character in [[Melvyn Bragg]]'s 1996 novel, ''[[Credo (novel)|Credo]]''.{{sfn|Bragg|1996|p=}}

The 2013 novel ''[[Hild (novel)|Hild]]'' and 2023 sequel ''Menewood'' by [[Nicola Griffith]] is based on the life of Hilda.{{sfn|Bond|2013}}

[[Jill Dalladay]]'s 2015 novel ''The Abbess of Whitby'' combines historical record and fiction to imagine Hilda's life before she became a nun.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-abbess-of-whitby/|title=Review: The Abbess of Whitby}}</ref>

[[Maureen Duffy]]'s play ''The Choice'' premiered at the [[Jermyn Street Theatre]] in 2018. This monologue sees Hilda recount two episodes of her life that are recorded by [[Bede]]: the 'miracle' of the poet-cowherd [[Cædmon|Caedmon]], and the role Hilda played in the transition from Irish to Roman Catholicism in the English church.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-hilda-virginia-jermyn-street-theatre/|title=Review: Hilda and Virginia|last=Williams|first=Holly}}</ref>

[[Vibeke Vasbo]]'s Danish novel ''Hildas sang'' (Gyldendal, 1991) was translated into English by Gaye Kynoch and published in 2018 as ''The Song of Hild'' by [[Sacristy Press]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.sacristy.co.uk/books/fiction/song-of-hild|title=The Song of Hild |publisher=Sacristy Press|author=Vasbo, Vibeke|access-date=16 July 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
===Citations===
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<ref name=acc>{{cite web|url=http://www.sthildasacc.org/about-us/who-was-st--hilda-of-whitby.html|title=St. Hilda of Whitby|website=St. Hilda of Whitby Anglican Catholic Church, Atlanta, Georgia|access-date=22 October 2014|archive-date=5 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805230806/http://www.sthildasacc.org/about-us/who-was-st--hilda-of-whitby.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

<ref name=Bognor>{{cite web|url=http://www.wilfrid.com/saints/hilda.htm |title=St. Hilda|website=Parish Church of St. Wilfrid, Bognor|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716131316/http://www.wilfrid.com/saints/hilda.htm|archive-date=2011-07-16}}</ref>

<ref name=dur.ac.uk>{{cite web|title=University Calendar: Arms and mottos|url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/university.calendar/volumei/arms_and_mottos/|publisher=University of Durham}}</ref>

<ref name=Katoomba>{{cite web|url=http://www.sthildas.net/abbessnew.html |title=St Hilda - Abbess of Whitby (c. 614 -680)|website=St. Hilda's Anglican Church, Katoomba|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140407003757/http://www.sthildas.net/abbessnew.html |archive-date=7 April 2014 }}</ref>

<ref name=melbourne>{{cite web|url=http://www.hildas.unimelb.edu.au/about/history |title=About St. Hilda's College|website= University of Melbourne}}</ref>

<ref name=ohp>{{cite web |url=http://www.ohpwhitby.org.uk/site/the+priory/st.+hilda+of+whitby |title=St. Hilda of Whitby|website= The Order of the Holy Paraclete |access-date=8 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623122422/http://www.ohpwhitby.org.uk/site/the+priory/st.+hilda+of+whitby |archive-date=23 June 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name=oxfordcollege>{{cite web |title=College History |url=https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/college-history |website=St Hilda’s College, Oxford |date=2 March 2020 |access-date=4 October 2020}}</ref>

<ref name=RCParish>{{cite web |url=http://www.sthildaswhitby.org.uk/ |title=St. Hilda's RC Parish, Whitby|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110801131041/http://www.sthildaswhitby.org.uk/ |archive-date=1 August 2011 }}</ref>

<ref name=sneatoncastle.co.uk>{{cite web |url=http://www.sneatoncastle.co.uk/|title= Sneaton Castle|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050729015507/http://www.sneatoncastle.co.uk/ |archive-date=29 July 2005 }}</ref>

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=== Further reading ===
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* Bede (1996) ''[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum|The Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and People]]'', Oxford University Press, World classics series.
* Bradley, Ian (1999) ''Celtic Christianity'', Edinburgh University Press.
* Cavill, Paul (1999) ''Anglo-Saxon Christianity: exploring the earliest roots of Christian spirituality in England'', London: Collins, Fount paperback.
* Hume, Basil (1996) ''Footprints of the Northern Saints'', London: Darton, Longman & Todd.
* Simpson, Ray (2014) ''Hilda of Whitby: A spirituality for now'', BRF
* Warin, Anne (1989) ''Hilda'', Lamp Press.
*{{cite news| author =Watling, Barbara| title =St Hilda of Hartlepool and Whitby| publisher =Catholic Life Magazine| year =2005| url =http://www.totalcatholic.com/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=89| format =Article| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110717075659/http://www.totalcatholic.com/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=89| archive-date =17 July 2011}}
* {{treccani|santa-ilda|Ilda, santa}}
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== External links ==
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* {{PASE|7689|Hild 1}}
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007768m St. Hilda] on [[Melvyn Bragg]]'s ''[[In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)|In Our Time]]'', 5 April 2007 ([[BBC Radio 4]])

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