Trias Thaumaturga

The Three Wonderworking Patrons of Ireland

Sunday, 9 June 2024

Prince, Poet, Priest and Saint

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Marking the feast of Saint Colum Cille with an article published 120 years ago in the Australian Catholic newspaper, The Southern Cross. The...
Sunday, 17 March 2024

Saint Patrick: His Prayers

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Marking the feast of Saint Patrick with a 1909 Australian newspaper account recalling the Moses tradition of Saint Patrick, who, like the le...
Thursday, 8 February 2024

Saint Brigid: Greatest of Irishwomen

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We conclude the series of posts in honour of the feast of Saint Brigid with an account from the Catholic Press in Sydney of the translation ...
Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Saint Brigid, Prototype of Religious Life

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  We continue the series of posts in honour of Saint Brigid with a late nineteenth-century article which reminds us that Saint Brigid was fi...
Tuesday, 6 February 2024

Sweet Saint Bride

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  We continue the series of posts with a Scottish view of Saint Brigid, or Saint Bride as she is called here, from 1905. I am struck by how ...
Monday, 5 February 2024

Saint Brigid, 'type, ideal, and model of Irish maidens'

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In 2024 Saint Brigid has been reinvented as a feminist icon, champion of the struggle against the patriarchy. One hundred years ago Saint Br...
Sunday, 4 February 2024

Great Life Work of Saint Brigid

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A handsome tribute to the legacy of Saint Brigid and to her famous foundation at Kildare from the pen of Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan, recto...
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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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