Relics of Ireland's only matron saint are returning to her hometown after almost 1,000 years. Revered relics of St Brigid are coming back to Co Kildare after nearly a millennium. St Brigid ...

Suspend disbelief if you will and picture the scene: a wormhole appears in the space time continuum. A time traveller with a millennium-and-a-half between her life and ours lands just beside Exit ...

Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way ...

Devotees of St. Brigid are commemorating the 1,500th anniversary of her death on Thursday, the feast day of the so-called matron saint of Ireland, who’s been gaining a modern following.

In 2023, St. Brigid's Day became Ireland's newest bank holiday - it's observed on the first Monday after February 1, which in 2025, is February 3. While St. Patrick is celebrated around the world ...

They called the church St. Bridget’s in honor one of Ireland’s patron saints. It served as the parish church into the 1870s, when a larger church was erected nearby. It became St. Bridget’s ...

"If Ireland lights up the world green on St. Patrick’s Day for one ... More annually by The Shona Project. This reclamation of Brigid reflects something more substantial than symbolic ...

Saint Brigid is the patron saint of Ireland, dairymaids, cattle, midwives, Irish nuns and newborn babies, according to ...

In Ireland, Feb. 1 marks the beginning of spring and the celebration of “Lá Fhéile Bríde” — St. Brigid’s Day. For Irish Catholics, the day has always been significant, as St. Brigid is ...

Devotees of St. Brigid are commemorated the 1,500th anniversary of her death Thursday, the feast day of the so-called matron saint of Ireland, who’s been gaining a modern following. Many of the ...

I kicked things off at a candlelit concert in St Brigid’s Cathedral in Kildare town, a 30-minute train ride from Dublin. Over the course of the evening, some of Ireland’s coolest female singer ...

Little did my husband Damien and I know how much we were to learn that day, or the unexpected impact St. Brigid — one of the patron saints of Ireland, along with St. Patrick and St. Columcille ...