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ST. HILTRUDE 391 it had afterwards come to her knowledge that Joseph was the name taken by Hilde* gnnd; that she had passed for the son of her father, both at Jerusalem and afterwards at Cologne, and had trayelled to Home with a canon about the election of the abbess of the Benedictine convent of St. Ursula, at Cologne. It was yery easy after this to iden- tify Hildegund with Joseph, and to trace her life until the moment of her entry into the monastery of Schonau, par- ticularly as she had told her whole history, with the exception of her sex, to her friend and fellow-novice, who after- wards wrote her life. She is called '* Saint "in the Benedictine and Cistercian Martyrologies, and is a popular saint in Germany and Belgium ; but her worship has never been autho- rized throughout the whole Boman Church. Papebroch, in AA.SS,j and Baillet, Vie8 lies Saints^ give her story firom the contemporary biography. St. Hildelid or Hildelitha, March 24, V. + c. 720. Princess. Second abbess of Barking. One of the first virgins of the English nation who con- secrated herself a spouse to Christ. She went for that purpose to a French monas- tery, where she quickly became so perfect as to be fit to teach and direct many other virgins, as their mother and mistress, in the holy discipline of a religious life. When, therefore, St. Earkonwald founded for himself the monastery of Chertsey, and for his sister, St. Ethelburga, that of Barking, not being able to find in England (where there were at that time scarcely any nunneries) a religious woman fit to model this new establishment, he invited St. Hildelid from France, and committed his sister to her care and teaching. St. Ethelburga was the first abbess of Barking; St. Hildelid the second. She lived to a great age; the exact date of her death is not known. St. Cuthberoa, who, in 713, founded the abbey of Wimbome, was one of her nuns and disciples. St. Aldelm dedicated to her his Book of Virginity , and her memory was highly honoured by St. Dunstan, St. Ethel wold, and St. Elphegius. St. Boni- face, the apostle of Germany, is supposed to have meant th^s saint when he wrote, in his twenty-first Epistle, What he learnt from the venerable Ahhesa Hildelid. With her are commemorated the nuns of her convent who, about 150 years after her death, were all burnt by the Danes when they ravaged the eastern shores of Eng- land, in the time of St. Edmund, about 870. Bede, iv. 10. Britannia Sancta, St. Hildemar, Oct. 25 (Childemara, Childeomaroa, Childombrga, Childo- MARA, HiLDEMAROHE, IlDEHERCA, Ctc.), -t- 689. The abbey of Fecamp was one of several religious foundations made by St. Waning. He left it by will to St. Wandregesil, who brought St. Hildemar from the convent of St. Eulalia at Bor- deaux, of which she was abbess, to preside over the new community. She received St. Leger (Leodegarius) when he was persecuted, and she and her nuns bene- fited much by his teaching. He was still the prisoner of Ebroin, mayor of the palace, and was not at liberty while he was in Hildemar's house. The convent was destroyed by the Normans in the 9th century. AA.SS. Chastelain. Bucelinus. St. Hilp, or HiLF, is probably the same as Wiloefortis. Eckenstein. B. Hilsuind or Hilsendis, Hbb- 8 WIND. St. Hiltrude (l), Sept. 27 (Hertrue, Eldetrude), v. Second ludf of the 8th century. Patron of Liessies and of Hainault. Eepresented holding a lamp and a palm. Daughter of Wibert and Ada, noble Franks, living in Picardy. Wibert, being tired of fighting, begged of King Pepin the Short a place where he could live in peace. Pepin gave him a piece of land between Theoracia, in Northern Picardy, and Hainault. There, at Lies- sies, on the river Helpra, Wibert and Ada built a church and monastery, fur- nished with relics of St. Lambert, and all other necessaries. They had a son, Guntard, a monk, and two pretty daughters, Hiltrude and Bertha. Hugo, a prince of Burgundy, proposed to marry Hiltrude. Her parents consented, but Hiltrude, desiring to be a nun, fled to the forest with a few attendants. Hugo transferred his suit to her sister Bertha, and after their marriage, Hiltrude came