Venerable
Bega
An Irish virgin and recluse in Copeland in Cumbria.
- Feast
- September 6old style September 19
- Era
- 7th century
- Place
- Copeland
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Bega was a holy virgin from Ireland and a recluse in Copeland in Cumbria. According to her Life, she was a king's daughter who fled to Northumbria to escape a marriage arranged with a Viking prince. She lived as an anchoress, renowned for her piety, and founded a convent at St Bee's Head in Cumberland. Several churches in England are dedicated to her, and the village of Kilbees in Scotland is named after her. She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
Her commemoration falls on 6 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 19 September of the civil calendar.
Commemorated the same day September 6
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Faustus, Abibus and DionysiusHoly Martyrs · Martyrs of AlexandriaSep 6
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Archippus of ChairotopaVenerableSep 6- Eudoxius, Zeno and MacariusMartyr · Martyrs of MeliteneSep 6
- Constantine BogoslovskyHieromartyr · ArchpriestSep 6
- Abibas of AlexandriaHieromartyr · DeaconSep 6
- Andrew of AlexandriaMartyrSep 6
- AndronicusMartyrSep 6
- Andropelagia of AlexandriaMartyrSep 6
- Arator of VerdunSaint · Bishop of VerdunSep 6
- AugustineHoly MartyrsSep 6
- Bricin of TomreganVenerable · Abbot of TomreganSep 6