Pega

Saint Pega
Stained glass window depicting Saint Pega in Peakirk church
Anchoress
Bornc. 673
Mercia
Diedc. 719
Rome
Venerated inCatholic Church
Anglican Churches
Eastern Orthodox Church
Major shrinePeakirk (partially destroyed)
Feast8 January

Pega (c. 673 – c. 719) is a Christian saint who was an anchoress in the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and the sister of St Guthlac.

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