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Saint Brigid of Kildare or Saint Brigid of Ireland (Irish: Naomh Bríd; Classical Irish: Brighid; Latin: Brigida; c. 451 – c. 525) is the patroness saint (or 'mother saint') of Ireland, and one of its three national saints along with Patrick and Columba.
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 ...
Kildare Abbey is a former monastery in County Kildare, Ireland, founded by St Brigid in the 5th century, and destroyed in the 12th century.. Originally known as Druim Criaidh, or the Ridge of Clay, Kildare came to be known as Cill-Dara, or the Church of the Oak, from the stately oak-tree loved by St. Brigid.
Cogitosus was a monk of Kildare, an important monastery in Ireland, who wrote the oldest extant vita of Saint Brigid, Vita Sanctae Brigidae, around 650. [1] There is a controversy as to whether he was related to Saint Brigid. [2] Muirchú moccu Machtheni names Cogitosus as the first Irish hagiographer. [3]
Kildare Cathedral, or St Brigid's Cathedral in Kildare, is one of two Church of Ireland cathedrals in the United Dioceses of Meath and Kildare. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin . Originally a Catholic cathedral, it was built in the 13th century on the site of an important Celtic Christian abbey, which is said to have been founded ...
Beckery (also Little Ireland) is an area within Glastonbury. It was once the main industrial area of the town. It was once the main industrial area of the town. The area is said to have been visited by Saint Brigid of Kildare in the 4th or 5th century.
Donatus died around 876, and Andrew a few years later at the Monastery of San Martino di Mensola at Fiesole, which he had founded at Donatus' suggestion. Andrew was anxious to see his sister before dying. Bridget left Ireland to pay him a visit and arrived in time to find him still alive but near his end. [1]
St. Brigid's National School is a primary national school for boys and girls. It is located off Beechpark Avenue in Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland. It has a Roman Catholic ethos. St. Brigids' choir has performed at several events and has entered various contests around Ireland, including the ESB Feis Ceoil in Dublin in which they placed first.