(ABOUT A.D. 718.)
[English Martyrologies. Authorities: Felix of Croyland, Florence of
Worcester, Ordericus Vitalis, lib. iv. c. 17.]
S. Pega was the sister of S. Guthlac of Croyland, and though of the
royal blood of the Mercian kings, forsook the world and led a retired
life in the country, where now stands Peakirk, in Northamptonshire.
"There Pega, S. Guthlac's sister, was for a long time a servant of the
Lord. After her brother's death, she used all her endeavours to wear out
her life for the love of Christ, by still severer austerities. She,
therefore, undertook a pilgrimage to Rome, to pray at the threshold of
the holy Apostles, for herself and her kinsfolk, and she there
triumphantly departed, on the sixth of the ides (8th) of January."
S. Pega, called in Northamptonshire S. Pee, is not to be confounded with
S. Bega, or S. Bees, who is commemorated on September 8th.