Hieu of Tadcaster

Saint Heiu, a venerable abbess, was abbess of the monastery at Tadcaster, in Northumbria, England. She received the monastic tonsure from Saint Aidan and fell asleep in the year 657. She is commemorated on 2 September.

According to the historian Bede, she was the first woman of Northumbria to take the monastic habit. She founded a monastery, which she later left for Tadcaster. She is sometimes identified with Saint Bega.

A troparion in English praises her as one who shone with the virtues of asceticism and humility, and asks her prayers that we too may follow the example of her great teacher, the hierarch Aidan.