Psalm 89:1
Your
love,
O Lord,
forever will I sing; from age to age
my mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness.
Hilda, depicted here in 14th century stained glass, in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
The Synod of Whitby, held in 664, “was convened to settle the questions dividing the followers of the Celtic traditions and followers of the Roman practices. The Synod resulted int he union of the Roman and Celtic missions in England.” This resulted in the disappearance, at least institutionally, of Celtic Christianity, such as the existence of “double houses,” monasteries of men and woman such as the one at Whitby in North Yorkshire, over which Hilda presided as Abbess.
The Sister Fidelma mysteries by Peter Tremayne (which can be found in our St Davdi's library) are set int his historical period and depict the tension between the two traditions, the Celtic and the Roman. He, like Hilda herself, favors the former. 
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