{"slug": "hilda-of-whitby", "label": "Hilda of Whitby", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_of_Whitby", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257500", "qid": "Q257500", "description": "Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, England", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [614, 1119], "span_label": ["614 CE", "1119 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yorkshire", "label": "Yorkshire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northumbria", "label": "Northumbria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lindisfarne", "label": "Lindisfarne", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "monasticism", "label": "Monasticism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bible", "label": "Bible", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 614, "year_label": "614 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Hilda of Whitby, abbess and saint (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752346#Births", "title": "614", "revid": 1364752346, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 647, "year_label": "647 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Hilda of Whitby, age 33, is persuaded by Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne, to enter the monastic life at Hartlepool Abbey (Northumbria).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804471#Religion", "title": "647", "revid": 1340804471, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 657, "year_label": "657 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Hilda, Anglo-Saxon abbess, founds a monastery at Streaneshalch, on the Yorkshire coast at Whitby (England).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804374#Religion", "title": "657", "revid": 1340804374, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 672, "year_label": "672 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Cædmon, Anglo-Saxon poet, writes a nine-line hymn on the Creation. A onetime illiterate herdsman, he becomes a monk under the rule of Hilda of Whitby, where he will turn various biblical themes into vernacular poetry (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340805434#Literature", "title": "672", "revid": 1340805434, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": 680, "year_label": "680 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Hilda of Whitby, Northumbrian abbess and saint", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331672551#Deaths", "title": "680", "revid": 1331672551, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1119, "year_label": "1119 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, grants and confirms the church of St. Hilda of Middlesbrough to Whitby.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361127585#England", "title": "1119", "revid": 1361127585, "section": "Events › England"}}]}