Begu

Family: Northumbrians · Role: nun · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XXIII

Life events

c. 678 · Begu received a vision revealing Hilda's death.(Book IV · Chap. XXIII · 📍 Hacanos)
- With: Hilda
- “That same night it pleased Almighty God, by a manifest vision, to make known her death in another monastery, at a distance from hers, which she had built that same year, and which is called Hacanos. There was in that monastery, a certain nun called Begu, who, having dedicated her virginity to the Lord, had served Him upwards of thirty years in the monastic life.”

with Hilda (interaction) “and, with many tears and lamentations, and heaving deep sighs, told her that the Abbess Hilda, mother of them all, had departed this life, and had in her sight ascended to the gates of eternal light”
with Frigyth (interaction) “rising immediately in great fear, she ran to the virgin who then presided in the monastery in the place of the abbess, and whose name was Frigyth, and, with many tears and lamentations, and heaving deep sighs, told her that the Abbess Hilda, mother of them all, had departed this life”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.