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Detail of A Saint Brigid of Ireland Stained Glass Window Saint JosephS Cathedral Macon Georgia Usa Artist Unknown Photographed By The Author Summer 2003
Detail of A Saint Brigid of Ireland Stained Glass Window Saint JosephS Cathedral Macon Georgia Usa Artist Unknown Photographed By The Author Summer 2003

Saint Brigid of Ireland

Also known as: Brigid of Kildare; Brigid of Cell Dara; Brigid of the Isles; Bride…; Bridget…; Brigit…; Ffraid…; Mary of the Gael

Saint
Pre-Congregation

Feast Day

February 1

Died

February 1, 523

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Biography

Saint Brigid of Ireland, born in the fifth century to Dubtach, a pagan Scottish king of Leinster, and Brocca, a Christian Pictish slave baptized by Saint Patrick, entered the world under circumstances of profound contrast. Her mother, sold to a Druid landowner just before her birth, raised Brigid until she was old enough to serve her father, Dubtach, as his legal possession....

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