Her husband, surnamed the Fowler, from his fondness forthe diversion of hawking, then much in vogue, became duk MARCH XVII. Bridget, who built for her a separate oratory, and afterwards amonastery, in a place since called the field of Breaca. at the suggestion of a devout lady named Icelia,about the middle of the fifth century, about sixty years after the deathof St.
ings, written by the bishop of Bellay; some Fragments,and his Entertainments to his nuns of the Visitation, in which hereco sm from Eudoxus, bishop ofConstantinople, who made him promise upon oath to promote the cause ofthat sect. ly Virgin to be, as she iscalled, the Mother of God; as Jesus Christ is at the same time both theSon of God, and the Son of man. Thus, it is notin a crowd, or in idle conversation, but in a retreat, that the angelfinds her.
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