St bridget of ireland biography sampler
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I have always liked the cross of Brigid, with it’s simple or elaborate intricate ‘crisscrossing’ . Below are a number of samples of ones that I have made . I have endeavoured to be as creative and instinctive as possible and on occasion what I set out to create has ended up being very different. This occurs with the individual use of painted wood, aran wool and icons of Brigid. Her name and cross is highly represented amongst the Irish Abroad, whether in churches , schools and GAA clubs worldwide. London was the source of the evolving St, Brigid Festival now celebrated worldwide via the Irish embassies and consulates .
Harry Clarke’s depiction of Brigid, in St. Mary’s Church
Ballinrobe Co. Mayo
I hope you have enjoyed browsing the brochure (pages numbered) showcasing what is available to purchase or re-order and includes packaging and postage worldwide. If you would like a cross of a particular measurement to suit your site ; do get in touch
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Saving Saint Brigid
Above: Saint Brigid’s Cathedral and Kildare as seen from the round tower.
Three Saints one grave do fill:
Patrick, Brigid, and Columbkill
On a recent trip to Ireland, I fell in love once more with the Emerald Isle, from whom, if both records and DNA can be trusted, a great many of my ancestors emerged. As so many times before, I saw as much of it as I could see, even places not seen before, from Glendalough to Skibbereen. Although my taste for Ireland and the Irish was somewhat diminished in recent years by the referenda in which two thirds of the population voted for abortion and same-sex “marriage,” my spirits were buoyed on this trip by their overwhelming rejection of the latest woke referendum – a chilling blow to the Dublin elite – if one can call such a sorry group by that name.
The dear old Isle of Saints and Scholars has a powerful hold on the Anglophone Catholic World. Few of us in New York or Los Angeles or Toronto or Vancouver or M
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Alice Curtayne
Catholic Truth Society
Booklet No. 696
Published 1936, reissued 1960
Alice Curtayne has written about Saint Brigid of Ireland many times. There is a chapter in her book Twenty Tales of Irish Saints, a nearly identical chapter in Irish Saints for Boys and Girls, and yet another in More Tales of Irish Saints. She also published the full-length biography Saint Brigid of Ireland in 1934. And then a few years later this booklet for the Catholic Truth samhälle. At first, I wondered if this booklet was just an excerpt from some of her other writings about Saint Brigid, but that is not the case, at least from the four books mentioned above. With every book or booklet, inom read bygd Curtayne inom want to read more. I am thankful this one fryst vatten available online currently and was much easier to access than many of her works.
This booklet fryst vatten primarily about Saint Brigid, but it begins with setting the historical scen. Curtayn