Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

that Aidan and other religious men knew her and
honored her work. Because of her innate wisdom
and inclination to the service of God, they
frequently visited with her and diligently instructed
her in the doctrines. Even kings and princes asked
and received her advice.[22] She put the seminary
at Whitby under efficient and scholarly discipline.
This establishment was very large, having two
separate divisions, one for each sex.
This latter arrangement was unusual. She
obliged all those who were under her direction to
attend much to the reading of the Bible and to learn
how to teach scriptural truths.
There is ample evidence that this was the type
of training center established throughout the world
by the Church in the Wilderness. A specialty was
made of studying and copying the Holy Scriptures.
Farming and other trades were taught. To the girls
instruction was given suitable to their later life.
Whitby became the nursery of eminent men,
graduating five who became provincial directors,
and giving to the world Caedmon, the first of
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