SAINT MODWEN, 41 
had come to the river which is called Trent which flows 
past Mount Calvus which in English is called Calvecliffe, 
they built there a church consecrated to God and S. Andrew, 
which place is called Andressey because it is a small island. 
It was desert at that time, and in it St. Modwen and 
Lazar and Athea dwelt seven years—And after they returned 
from Rome they built a church on the other side of the 
water at the foot of Mount Calvus in honour of S. Peter 
and S. Paul and God wrought through them many miracles 
near the aforesaid river. And after the Abbess had blessed 
them she returned to Ireland, but Athea dwelt in Andressey 
as the holy Modwen had appointed, for she was recognised 
as Abbess. According she requested that she might remain 
with them. In the great and long wood of Arderne she 
constructed three churches; the fourth was in a certain 
island in the river Trent which flows near to Mount 
Calvus.” This Mount Calvus, which in English is called 
Calvecliffe, is Scalpcliff, on the Derbyshire side of the Trent 
due east of Andressey. 
In the 1895 July number of the Reliquary appeared some 
fragments of a life of S. Modwen discovered in the binding 
of an old book in the possesion of the Hon. Mrs. Bulkeley 
Owen (by whose kindness I am enabled to show photos). 
These again seem to be derived from the original life of 
S. Modwen, written by Geoffry, of Burton. Amongst them 
is the following. The letters in brackets are obliterated in 
the original. 
“And whan she retourned fro Rome she came to Eng(/and 40) 
a place on ye south syde of Scaleclyffe hyll called (Ca/ve) 
hyll and ther she bylded a churche in the Morshy 
(wa)ter of Trent There she bylded a chappell in the 
(y/and) of saynt Andrewe and therefore ye sayd ylande is 
(called 41n)drousey at this day yt. is to saye Andrewes yle. 
(Zher)e she lyved. vij. yeres reclused as an Ancresse.’’ 
The first of these two accounts distinctly states that 
S. Modwen first built a church upon an island and dedi- 
cated it to S. Andrew, and after her return from Rome, a 
