A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Hilda, (St.)
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HILDA (ST.) Princess of Scotland,
Was learned in scripture, and composed many religious works. She opposed strenuously the tonsure of the priests, supposing it, perhaps, a superstitious or a heathenish observance. She built the convent of Fare, of which she became abbess, and died there in 685.