Dear Bill,
As with most of the listings, the Humbeline story was taken from *Butler's
Lives of the Saints*. At the end of the listing for Humbeline the
following bibliography is provided: "There is no early life of Bd
Humbeline. A short account of her is given in the *Acta Sanctorum*,
August, vol. iv, and she stands first in the group of holy women whose
story is traced by Henriquez in his *Lilia cisterciensium* (1633); but
almost all lives of St Bernard devote more or less space to his relations
with his only sister." See *Butler's*, vol. 3, (Burns & Oats,1956), p. 377.
Unfortunately there is no explicit reference to the source that Butler used.
Yours Carolyn,
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