Trias Thaumaturga

The Three Wonderworking Patrons of Ireland

Sunday, 31 March 2013

Vignettes from the Lives of the Irish Saints: Saint Brigid's Easter

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23 1.      As Easter Day was approaching, Saint Brigit wanted to give a banquet for all the churches which were ne...
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Sunday, 17 March 2013

Goffine's Devout Instruction for the Feast of Saint Patrick

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Below is a nineteenth-century translation of a work originally published in the seventeenth century by the German Norbertine pries...
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Lent with Saint Patrick

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But Patrick, having now become a monk, forgetting all things that were past, applied to the future, and, as if little accounting his fo...
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Lent with Saint Brigid

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Below is an episode from the hagiography of Saint Brigid referring to the Lenten fast, which I first published as part of a 'Lent w...
Friday, 8 February 2013

Saint Brigid: Her Work and her Memory

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To mark the octave day of the Feast of Saint Brigid, below is a tribute to her work and her memory taken from a 1913 publication by the E...
Thursday, 7 February 2013

'Brigide was base Daughter of Dubtachus' - a 16th century English View

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There is an interesting 16th-century view of Saint Brigid recorded in the work of an English writer, which I reproduce below. Th...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Hymn to Saint Brigid

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The series of hymns from the work of Sister Mary Francis Cusack concludes with a nineteenth-century composition. This one receiv...
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Marcella
I am an Irishwoman interested in the lives of our native saints and martyrs. I am not a professional scholar in this field but attempt to keep up with the work of those who are. I am particularly interested in the many obscure Irish saints whose names fill the pages of our Martyrologies.
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