Spring in Ireland traditionally starts on St Brigid's Day, February 1 ... at the foot of a high cross in Ireland. Similarly, our Goddess had a sacred cow that suckled a king, the same as Queen ...

From the Biddy boys and Brat Bríde to holy wells and Brigid's crosses, February 1st was marked with great gusto in old Ireland ...

honors both the Christian saint and the ancient Celtic goddess Brigid. It marks the beginning of spring in Ireland and highlights the festival's deep ties to feminine power, wisdom, and Irish ...

Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way ...

St. Brigid's Day, February 1, is when Ireland remembers the Celtic goddess Brigid and her immense power in both the Irish mythological and religious imagination. The goddess Brigid was the ...

Braving the frigid wind tunnels in midtown Manhattan on Saturday, Feb. 1, participants heading to this annual celebration at ...

It is among Ireland’s most important cultural and ... Originally, it celebrated the Celtic goddess Brigid, a powerful figure associated with fertility, healing, and the arts.

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 ...

The day has been used to promote the successes of Irish women and generated a variety of celebrations of St. Brigid, typically reimagined as a pre-Christian goddess. In a Jan. 30 statement ...

More information here Find your inner goddess in this Goddess Brigid Workshop ... a series of talks on topics such as Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s pirate queen. There will be knitting, printing ...

“A pagan goddess, a saint ... and buy a revolver.” And now Brigid, who some believe was Ireland’s first recorded abortionist. As someone with a deathly phobia of snakes, I’m glad Patrick ...