Her younger sister is St. Thérèse of Lisieux, her parents, Louis and Zelie, are saints, and her older sister, Leone Martin (Sister Francoise-Thérèse of the Visitation at Caen), is a Servant of God.

Here’s an astounding fact — Brigid’s Day is the only national holiday honoring a woman in the world (except for feasts of the Blessed Mother, but then Mary is always the exception). Brigid’s Day is ...

Yet they rarely mention the woman standing just to his left – St Brigid, whose feast day at the weekend was a celebration of women. Brigid was said to be a Kildare woman. Her links to London don ...

St Brigid’s Day and Imbolc fall on February 1 every year ... In about 480 AD she founded a monastery at Kildare. She asked the king of Leinster for land to build and he agreed to supply whatever land ...

St Brigid's Day, or Imbolc, has been a yearly public holiday since 2023 to mark both the saint's feast day and the seasonal festival. The public holiday is observed on the first Monday of February ...

According to tradition, around 480, St Brigid founded a monastery at Kildare (Cill Dara, "church of the oak"). After asking the King of Leinster for a piece of land, the Irish Countrywomen's ...

On the feast of St Brigid countless crowds were drawn to Kildare, ‘some for the abundant ... which was vitally important for the monastery's political position. We need your consent to load ...

O’Hara pointed to St. Brigid’s work as founder of her abbey in Kildare. “She was concerned about the poor; her compassion and her hospitality really stood out as the faith spread,” she said.

One of those is in County Kildare, where St Brigid is credited with founding a monastery that became one of the most powerful sites in early Christian Ireland. No mean feat for an early medieval ...