Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way ...

The Monday following St. Brigid's feast day on 1st of February was declared a new annual public holiday in 2023, the first women in Ireland to be recognised with one. St. Brigid's Day also marks ...

I suggest that we also pause to remember another of Ireland’s patron saints, the nurturing, compassionate St. Brigid. Cogitosus recounted Brigid’s many purported miracles: As a girl ...

Devotees of St. Brigid plan to celebrate her Sunday with the scheduled return of a relic associated with the so-called matron saint of Ireland. The festivities come about a millennium after her ...

Devotees of St. Brigid are commemorating the 1,500th anniversary of her death on Thursday, the feast day of the so-called matron saint of Ireland, who’s been gaining a modern following.

Ireland on Thursday is celebrating the 1,500th anniversary of the death of St. Brigid of Kildare, the Emerald Isle’s female patron saint. St. Brigid (c. 453–524 A.D.) is credited with ...

Celebrate St. Brigid's feast day this year at the place of her birth in Faughart, County Louth. As St. Brigid's Day approaches on the 1st of February, the birthplace of Ireland’s beloved matron ...

However, St Brigid's Day is now a public holiday in Ireland and there will be a renewed interest and emphasis on this old festival. But how did our most recent ancestors celebrate the occasion ...

The Northern Lights in Dundalk for Louth's Brigid 1500 Festival (PRNewsfoto/Tourism Ireland) Who was St. Brigid? Believed to have lived during the 5th century, legends about St. Brigid's life are ...

Devotees of St. Brigid are commemorated the 1,500th anniversary of her death Thursday, the feast day of the so-called matron saint of Ireland, who’s been gaining a modern following. Many of the ...