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The Story of Saint Brigid
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St Brigid of Ireland
1st February is the feast day of St Brigid (Lá Fhéile Bríde) Patroness of Ireland.
While few facts are known of this early Irish saint, her reputation for kindness, learning and sanctity is widespread.
“….our meagre certainties about Brigid of Ireland, the most venerated of all early Irish saints, a woman whose liturgical and popular cult once reached from Iceland and Scandinavia to Italy”
Daphne Pochin Mould, Saint Brigid, 1964
Note that a number of spelling variations of her name are commonly used.
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These include – Brighid, Bríg, Brigit, Bride of Kildare.
International Recognition
Throughout Ireland there are numerous churches, both Catholic and Protestant, and holy wells named after this saint. The name Kilbride used for towns and villages in Ireland and Scotland are named after St Brigid, as is St Bride’s Church in Fleet Street London.
The Breton form of Brigid, Berhat, is