Hildelith

Hildelith of Barking, also known as Hildilid or Hildelitha, was an 8th-century Christian saint,[2] from Anglo-Saxon England but was of foreign origin.

Earconwald is said to have engaged Hildelith to instruct his sister Æthelburh, abbess of the monastery which he had founded at Barking.

[1] Bede speaks of Hildelith's long rule, of her translation of the bones of saints into the church of St. Mary and of a miraculous cure of a blind man which took place in her time.

[7] The date of Hildilid's death is uncertain, but Bede speaks of her long rule and says she lived to a great age and historian Katie Bugyis states that Hildelith died sometime after 686.

[1][8] A letter dated to 716 from Saint Boniface to Eadburga, Abbess of Minster mentions Hildilid[1] as the original source for his Vision of the Monk of Wenlock, but he does not indicate whether she was at the time still living or dead.