ing 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… … WHITBY AISBF.Y, 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…
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