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 ...

Relics of Ireland's only matron saint are returning to her hometown after almost 1,000 years. Revered relics of St Brigid are coming back to Co Kildare after nearly a millennium. St Brigid ...

I suggest that we also pause to remember another of Ireland’s patron saints, the nurturing, compassionate St. Brigid. Unlike Patrick, who came from Britain, Brigid was born in Ireland ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

but another patron saint of Ireland is making a 21st century comeback. St. Brigid of Kildare, a younger contemporary of St. Patrick, is quietly and steadily gaining a following, in Ireland and abroad.

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 ...

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 ...