HKB
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Often appears with: saints’ intercession · reburial and translation of relics · monastery burial practices · miracles and divine intervention · funeral rites and burial · bone relocation · blindness healing
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · reverence (1)
Hildilid succeeds Ethelburg as abbess, orders translations of buried bones into the church, and recounts a miracle where a blind woman regains sight after praying in the monastery cemetery of the saints.
this was done, and a fragrancy of wonderful sweetness arose, and what other signs were revealed, whosoever reads will find in the book from which we have taken these tales.(586) But in truth, I think it by no means fit to pass over the miracle of healing, which the same book informs us was wrought in the cemetery of that community dedicated to God. There lived in that neighbourhood a certain thegn, whose wife was se…