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Hieu
Irish abbess
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Feast: 2 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
601
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
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, and the first known woman to rule a double monastery.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Stanton, A Menology of England and Wales, 21 (or 23) August — 'At Tadcaster, in Yorkshire, the memory of St. Hieu, Virgin and Abbess, the true day of whose deposition is not known.' She yielded her place at Hartlepool to St Hilda and founded at Tadcaster (Healaugh, 'Hieu's territor
- Wikidata Q19520024 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Hieu (abbess) (CC BY-SA)
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