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'''Pega''' (c. [[673]]-c.[[714]]), was an [[anchoress]] of [[Mercia]], and the sister of [[Saint Guthlac]]. She was born in Mercia. She lived as an anchoress at [[Peakirk]] ("Pega's church") in the modern [[county]] of [[Cambridgeshire]], not far from Guthlac's hermitage at [[Crowland]]. When he realized that his end was near in 714, he invited her to his funeral. For this she sailed down the [[River Welland]], curing a blind man from [[Wisbech]] on the way. She inherited Guthlac's [[psalter]] and [[scourge]], both of which, it was claimed, she later gave to [[Crowland Abbey]]. She went on pilgrimage to [[Rome]] and died there c.719. [[Ordericus Vitalis]] claimed that her relics survived in an unnamed Roman church in his day, and that miracles took place there. Her feast day is [[January 8]].
==References==
*Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Saints''. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
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