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Brigid February 1 , and the old one is burned to keep fire from the house, yet customs vary by locality and family.

Many homes have multiple crosses preserved in the ceiling, the oldest blackened by many years of hearth fires. Some believe that keeping a cross in the ceiling or roof is a good way to preserve the home from fire which was always a major threat in houses with thatch and wood roofs. Troparion Tone 1 [1]. Kontakion Tone 4 [2]. Apolytikion Tone 4 [3]. Kontakion Tone 3 [4]. Differing biographies written by different authors, give conflicting accounts of her life, however three of those biographies agreed that she had a slave mother in the court of her father, Dubhthach, a king of Leinster.

Perhaps the most ancient account of her life is by St. Broccan Cloen :. Saint Brigid was not given to sleep, Nor was she intermittent about God's love; Not merely that she did not buy, she did not seek for The wealth of this world below, the holy one. One, the "Life of Brigid" dates from the closing years of the eighth century, and is held in the Dominican friary at Eichstat in Bavaria.

It expounds the metrical life of St.

Brigid, and versified it in Latin. Brigid's small oratory at Cill-Dara Kildare became a center of religion and learning, and developed into a cathedral city. She founded two monastic institutions, one for men, and the other for women, and appointed St. Conleth as spiritual pastor of them.

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It has been frequently stated that she gave canonical jurisdiction to St. Conleth, Bishop of Kildare , but, as the Catholic Archbishop Healy points out in Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars , she simply "selected the person to whom the Church gave this jurisdiction," and her biographer tells us distinctly that she chose St.

Conleth "to govern the church along with herself. Brigid also founded a school of art, including metal work and illumination, over which Conleth presided. The Kildare scriptorium produced the Book of Kildare, which elicited high praise from Giraldus Cambrensis, but which has disappeared since the Reformation. According to Giraldus, nothing that he had ever seen was at all comparable to the book, every page of which was gorgeously illuminated, and he concludes by saying that the interlaced work and the harmony of the colors left the impression that "all this is the work of angelic, and not human skill.

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In her honor St. Ultan of Ardbraccan wrote a hymn commencing:. Christus in nostra insula Que vocatur Hivernia Ostensus est hominibus Maximis mirabilibus Que perfecit per felicem Celestis vite virginem Precellentem pro merito Magno in numdi circulo. In our island of Hibernia Christ was made known to man by the very great miracles which he performed through the happy virgin of celestial life, famous for her merits through the whole world.

The sixth life of the saint is attributed to Coelan, an Irish monk of the eighth century, and it derives a peculiar importance from the fact that it is prefaced by St.

Brigid of Kildare

Donatus , also an Irish monk, who became Bishop of Fiesole in Donatus refers to previous lives by Ultan and Aileran. When dying, Brigid was attended by St. Ninnidh of Inismacsaint , who was afterwards known as "Ninnidh of the Clean Hand" because he had his right hand encased with a metal covering to prevent it ever being defiled, after being the medium of administering the last rites to "Ireland's Patroness. Brigid was interred at the right of the high altar of Kildare Cathedral, and a costly tomb was erected over her.

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Over the years her shrine became an object of veneration for pilgrims, especially on her feast day, February 1. About the year , owing to the Scandinavian raids, Brigid's relics were taken to Downpatrick, where they were interred in the tomb of Patrick and Columba. The relics of the three saints were discovered in , and on June 9 of the following year were reinterred in Downpatrick Cathedral. In Ireland today, after years, "Mary of the Gael" remains a popular saint, and Brigid remains a common female Christian name.

Moreover, hundreds of place-names in her honor are to be found all over both Scotland and Ireland, e. Places named Brideswell and Tupperbride commemorate in their names the presence of a sacred well "Tobar" in Gaelic dedicated to Brigid. Brigid's hand is preserved at Lumiar near Lisbon, Portugal, since , and another relic is at St.

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