Susan Hawley

Susan Hawley renamed Mary of the Conception (1622 – 1706) was an English born Sepulchrine prioress in Liège.

By the time she was nineteen she had decided not only on a religious life but that she wanted to move to Flanders to establish a convent.

[1] She joined forces with two other English-born nuns and they decided to create a new house in Liège.

That same year she published "Brief relation of the order and institute of the English religious women at Liège" and several copies still exist.

It would have been illegal to publish this Catholic document in England but these pamphlets were small enough to be kept secret.