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St Brigid showed love to everyone including the elderly. One day she met an old chieftain who was on his death bed. She picked up rushes & worked with them in her fingers while she told him about Jesus. He looked down & asked "What's that?" She had made her cross! #FindingBrigid
Vellum label in insular script from Abbey of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune, Switzerland. 3 names - Ss Brigid, Dar Lugdach & Bishop Conleth of Kildare. This is likely to have been separated from relics of these figures. 📷My photo from Words on the Wave @NMIreland in 2025 #FindingBrigid
St Brigid protected a woman from a nobleman who had given a silver brooch to her, but he then threw it into the sea to enslave her! She fled and sought refuge with Brigid's community. One of St Brigid's fishermen hauled in a fish which had swallowed the brooch! #FindingBrigid 🎣
31 Jan: St Brigid's Eve! Don't forget to leave a cloth or scarf outside to be blessed by Brigid as she passes! Known as a brat Bríde, (or Bratóg Bríde in some parts), the cloth or scarf is then believed to cure headaches or sore throats! #FindingBrigid https://t.co/D4swCuluxD
This beautiful life-size brass shoe from Loughrea, Co. Galway is in @NMIreland. Dr Cormac Bourke suggests it belongs to the early 18th century and not the end of the middles ages as previously believed, and states it was probably never used to house a relic! 📷me #FindingBrigid
St Brigid's Day is very soon (1 Feb)!!!
Here's a great youtube video of Clodagh Doyle, Keeper of the Irish Folklife Division @NMIreland introducing St Brigid’s Day! Old Irish traditions, diamond shaped crosses, girdle, the biddy & more! #FindingBrigid https://t.co/EkYQp8NYO0
My all-time favourite legends are about St Brigid of Kildare taming various animals!
-oystercatchers
-wild boar
-wolves
-ducks
-foxes!
You can read all about these wonderful stories in my book, St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women! Full of folklore! #FindingBrigid 🦆🐺🦊
#DYK?
-Legend that Brigid responsible for the Irish tradition of women being allowed to propose to men in leap years on 29th Feb!
-Ireland's only female patron saint!
-Many places throughout world named after Brigid. There's even a St Brigid Island in Antarctica! #FindingBrigid
St Brigid had a vision of Heaven as a great lake of ale; experienced great hospitality! She turned bathwater into ale for lepers! Supplied 18 churches with enough to last for days and days over Easter, despite having only one barrel! Also turned milk into ale! #FindingBrigid 🍻
St Bride's Church of England, on Fleet St, London is named for St Brigid of Kildare! It is often called the journalists' church. Its steeple is famous for inspiring the first ever tiered wedding cake, in the late 18th century, made by William Rich! #FindingBrigid
Initially Brigid was buried in Kildare. But then c. 878, because of Viking raids, her relics were moved. In 1185, the Anglo-Norman knight, John de Courcy had her remains reburied in Down Cathedral, Downpatrick, along with those of St Patrick & St Columba/Colmcille #FindingBrigid
St Brigid might possibly have gone to #Glastonbury in AD 488! Said to have stayed on the nearby island of Beckery. Following her visit, Beckery was known as Bride's Hay, Bride's Hill and Brigid's Island! 🎨St Patrick's Chapel, Glastonbury. #FindingBrigid https://t.co/TqXLtPREdU
Beautiful St Brigid on a utility box by @AcidstarzArt in summer 2023. At St Brigid’s Boys NS, Killester, Dublin. 📷 @DublinCanvas #FindingBrigid
It is said that just as the dandelion’s milky sap feeds young lambs, so St Brigid the shepherdess provided for and protected her sheep! In Irish dandelions are 'Lus Bhríde', Brigid's herb, or ‘Bearnán Bríde’, the indented one of Brigid! In my St Brigid book! #FindingBrigid 🌼
St Brigid & her white cow wandered the breadth of Ireland telling & showing people the good news of Jesus. Her marvellous cow miraculously supplied huge amounts of milk to everyone who needed it! Especially significant as its said white cows were sacred in folklore #FindingBrigid
St Brigid was taking some fatted pigs a distance from the plain of the River Barrow to Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath. A 3-4 day journey. Who on earth should appear from the forest but wild wolves! They amazingly helped St Brigid escort the pigs all the way to Meath! #FindingBrigid 🐺
Only women allowed to tend to Kildare's🔥! But Gerald of Wales said an archer blew on the fire, lost his senses & blew in everyone’s faces! Then, taken over by thirst, he begged his friends to take him to some nearby water, where he drank so much that he burst!! #FindingBrigid
St Brigid visited the King of Leinster’s castle (a fort really)! She wanted music! But all the harpers away and the King’s sons said no one could play the harp. Brigid blessed their fingers and they played! They made the most beautiful music that was ever heard! #FindingBrigid 🎶
A perpetual flame burned in Kildare in pre-Christian times. Its suggested priestesses used to gather on the hill there to tend this ritual fire, while invoking the goddesses called Brigid to protect their herds & provide a fruitful harvest. St Brigid adapted this! #FindingBrigid
Helen Fergus’s stunning new mural of St Brigid just steps from St Brigid’s Shrine in Faughart, Dundalk, Co. Louth. 📸Helen Fergus #FindingBrigid
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