Hieu
Hieu was a 7th-century Irish abbess who worked in Northumbria. She was foundress of abbeys at Hartlepool and Healaugh in Yorkshire England. Hieu was also the first of the saintly recluses of Northumbria,[1] and the first known woman to rule a double monastery.[2][3]
Hieu | |
|---|---|
| Abbess | |
| Born | c. 7th century |
| Died | 12 March, c. 7th century Healaugh, Yorkshire, England |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church |
| Feast | 2 September |
Life
Nothing is known of her early life, until she met Aidan of Lindisfarne who appointed her abbess of Hartlepool Abbey and subsequently a monastery at Healaugh near Tadcaster.[4][5]
She died at Healaugh on 12 March of an unknown year in the 7th century.[6] It is possible that the towns of Hartlepool (Hereteu) and Healaugh are named after her.
Hieu's memorial is kept on September 2.[7][8]
gollark: May Eric feast upon your soul.
gollark: Discriminator!
gollark: Banning people is discrimination.
gollark: You may be calling the wrong side's peripheral.
gollark: @Satan_is_my_cat full kode?
References
- Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, lib. iv, c. 23.
- Archaeologia Aeliana, xix, 47.
- Lina Eckenstein, Woman Under Monasticism (CUP 1972) p88.
- Michael Lapidge, & Helmut Gneuss, Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday (Cambridge University Press, 1985) page 8.
- Susan G. Bell, Women, from the Greeks to the French Revolution, (Stanford University Press, 1980) page 103.
- Agnes Dunbar, A Dictionary of Saintly Women (1904).
- "Saint Hieu". CatholicSaints.Info. 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
- September 2/September 15. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
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