ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 27th of November WELCOME! SAINT BILHILDES, ABBESS Abbess Saint Bilhildes [Bilhildis, Bilhild] died on the 27th of this month. She was born in Franconia in the year 625, at Hochheim, now called Veitshöchheim, in honour of its holy patron, St Vitus. Her parents, Iberimus and Mathilda, were Christians, though paganism still prevailed in their country, and were near relations of King Dagobert I, who reigned at that period. When three years old Bilhildes was sent to Würzburg to her aunt, Cunegundes, who instructed her in the Christian religion, and had her name inscribed among those who were to be baptised; but before the sacrament could be administered, the wild Huns invaded and devastated the country. The priests were banished or murdered, and the light of the faith was almost entirely extinguished. THE HUNS INVADED In this manner the baptism of Bilhildes was omitted, and afterwards entirely forgotten, but ...