St. Bega
Sep 06
Founded a Monastery
Bega was the daughter of an Irish King.
Her father had promised her in marriage to the son of the King of Norway, but Bega had already consecrated her life to Christ by a vow of virginity.
A bracelet marked with a cross was given to her by an angel as a token of her sacred promise.
The day before her wedding, she escaped with the help of the holy bracelet: it guided her outside to a clod of earth and she was transported across the Irish Sea and safely deposited upon the English coast at Cumbria.
She settled there for some years living in the strictest seclusion in a hut she had built in a grove of trees near the seashore.