Saturday, 8 February 2014

Saint Brigid: 'spiritual and patriotic archetype of the feminine'.

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To mark the Octave Day of the Feast of Saint Brigid, I conclude the series of posts with a final offering from James F. Cassidy's 192...
Friday, 7 February 2014

Vignettes from the Lives of the Irish Saints: Saint Brigid Heals One of her Sisters

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The Saint's tender care of her religious was manifested by another miracle. One of the sisters was very ill, and asked...
Thursday, 6 February 2014

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

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In one of the ancient lives of St. Brigit, a miraculous cure is attributed to her shadow. It is said that a "layman" came to ...
Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Vignettes from the Lives of the Irish Saints: Saint Brigid and the Dumb Child

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A good mother once brought her child to see the Saint. The girl was about twelve years of age, but she had been born dumb. St. Brigit ...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Saint Brigid: 'dispenser of good cheer'.

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M.F. Cusack, Trias Thaumaturga (1877) Ireland in her day was noted far beyond its shores for the hospitality of its people. The pro...
Monday, 3 February 2014

Saint Brigid: 'as practical in citizenship as she was mystic in religion'

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There is another name which was closely associated with that of Patrick but which needed no such distinguished affiliation to enable it ...
Sunday, 2 February 2014

Saint Brigid's Birthplace

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We begin a series of posts marking the octave of the feast of Saint Brigid with an article from the late 1880s presenting a Vic...