ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 6th of September WELCOME! SAINT BEGA, VIRGIN Saint Bega (Bees) was a holy Irish virgin, who flourished about the middle of the seventh century, led an anchoretical life, and afterwards founded a nunnery in Copeland, near Carlisle. SHE FOUNDED A NUNNERY IN COPELAND Her shrine was kept there after her death, and became famous for pilgrims. There is in Scotland a place called Kilbees from her name, according to a note of Th. Innes on the manuscript calendar kept in the Scotch College of Paris. The Irish Calendar commemorates on this day St Macculindus, bishop of Lusk, who departed to our Lord in 497. HER SHRINE BECAME FAMOUS FOR PILGRIMS Note 1. According to Alford and Suysken, St Bees was the same with St. Heyne or Hieu, who was the first nun in Northumberland, and received the veil from St Aidan; having founded a monastery at Heorthu, she appointed St Hilda abbess, and retired to Tadcaster, where she die...