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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Book IV: IX. Of the signs which were shown from Heaven when the mother of that community departed this life. [675 A.D.?]

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, ed. by A.M. Sellar, [1907] Now when Ethelburg herself, the pious mother of that community devoted to God, was about to be taken out of this world, a wonderful vision appeared to one of the sisters, called Tortgyth; who, having lived many years in that monastery, always endeavoured, in all humility and sincerity, to serve God herself, and to help the mother to maintain regular discipline, by instructing and reproving the younger ones.