heiu

Updated: October 31, 2025

She spent a year here in preparation, but before she could accomplish her purpose, Bishop Aidan invited her to the north, to take charge of the double monastery of Hartlepool, which had been founded by Heiu, the first nun in England.

Constance Stoney - Early Double Monasteries: A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914