St bridget of ireland

Saint of the Day – 1 February – St Brigid of Ireland/Kildare (c 453-523) Virgin, Abbess, Apostle of Charity and foundress of several Monasteries of Nuns, including that of Kildare in Ir…

St Bridget of Kildare - Aidan Hart Sacred Icons

Saint Brigid of Ireland is the patron saint of Ireland, babies and children, and midwives. She lived in the 400s in Ireland and may have known St. Patrick.

To celebrate St Brigid's Day, Dr Billy Shortall, research fellow at the Cuala Press Research Project, shows us how St Brigid was celebrated in the visual art of Cuala Industries, a female run arts and crafts cooperative in the early 20th century.

Growing up in Ireland, St.Brigid’s Day was one of the best days in school! We’d spend about an hour outside, playing around in the field and picking rushes for our Brigid’s Cross (of course, the rushes would try to take the eyes out of us continuously)! We’d all head inside then to start crafting; folding rushes in hal

Saint Brigid of Kildare, by Bernadette Carstensen, 2010.

FEBRUARY! How did that happen? Well, too late to fuss about that, so let's embrace the month that leads to Easter ... a month full of fea...

Saint Bridget of Kildare