#Saint Bridget

[maypoleman1]

1st February

Bride’s Day

Brigid: A Multi-Faceted Goddess. Source: Celtic Native website

Today is St Bridget’s Day, but it is also the feast of the Celtic goddess Brigid, or Bride. Of the historical Bridget, little is known. She lived in Kildare, where she founded a nunnery and became its Abbess; she died in 525. However, after her subsequent canonisation, a number of miracles were attributed to her, including the ability to make cows produce more milk, and her turning an armful of rushes into fish during a fish scarcity. She was also, illogically, given she lived in the sixth century, also supposedly Jesus’ midwife. Bridget took on a cultish status in Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man. In central Wales a gathering of twenty nuns fiercely guarded an ever-burning fire dedicated to Bridget, which no man was permitted to approach. If all this sounds rather pagan, it is because it was. The Christian missionaries in the Celtic west encountered strong belief in the goddess Bride, who was associated with fertility, water and the spring. The winter fires set by the pre-Christian Celts in honour of Bride explain the saint’s fire cult, and her association with fertility and child birth, explains the Christian linking of Bridget to the birth of Christ.

A more specific tale concerning Bride and the return of spring was also told in pagan times. Bride was the daughter of the “Good God” Dagda, the god of plenty. In a similar tale to that of Hades and Persephone, Bride was said to have been kidnapped by Cailleach, the goddess of winter, who held her in a mountain fastness, forcing Dagda to withdraw his benevolence from the earth and enabling Cailleach to spread her sheet of ice all over the land for four months. However, the agreement with Dagda was that Bride should be released in early February, and on this, her feast day, the young goddess would emerge from her mountain prison, and the snow would melt as she stepped through it, bringing the light of spring in her wake. The people would set candles in their windows to welcome the waxing sun and placed a bed by their door to encourage Bride to enter their homes, bringing warmth and good fortune with her.

Inevitably, come the end of October Bride had to return to Cailleach and her winter confinement.

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[geopsych]

Happy Imbolc!

And happy St Brigid’s Day or in this case Bridget’s Day. Here’s to new beginnings and turning the corner towards better days!

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HAPPY IMBOLC, BITCHES!!!

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[thesynaxarium]

Today we celebrate our Venerable Mother Ita the Hermitess of Killeedy. Saint Ita was of illustrious descent and was born into Irish nobility. As a child, all marvelled at her purity and virtue, especially her generosity and gentleness in both word and deed. She excelled in the “six gifts” of Irish womanhood – wisdom, purity, beauty, music, sweet speech, and embroidery. Refusing to marry and spurning the worldly life of riches and comfort, she left the world and with her great inheritance, founded a school and convent at Killeedy, a county which still bears her name to this day. At her convent, she accepted children whom she raised into piety, many of them becoming great beacons of Christianity in Ireland, and thus, Saint Ita became known as the “Foster Mother of the Irish Saints”. One of the saints whom she raised from only a year old was Saint Brendan the Navigator, whom she instilled great Christian piety upon. She often counselled him about the three things most displeasing to God: a face that hates mankind, a will that clings to the love of evil, and placing one’s entire trust in riches. She also taught him the three things which are most pleasing to God: the firm belief of a pure heart in God, the simple religious life, and liberality with charity. Many, including Saint Brendan, would often come to her for spiritual counsel throughout their lives, and many received healing from her as she knew much about both physical and spiritual medicine. The Hermitess Ita reposed peacefully in the Lord at an old age. Her feast day remains a local holiday in her district and many Irish girls are named after the the Saint, being second in line to Saint Brigid of Kildare. May she intercede for us always + #saint #ita #ireland #hermit #hermitess #convent #monastery #nun #virtue #killeedy #irish #christian #spiritual #holy #mother #abbess #brendan #stbrendan #brigid #bridget #stbrigid #stbridget #kildare #fostermother #foster #irish #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Killeedy, Clare, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnaQu37Bb3s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[portraitsofsaints]

Happy Feast Day Saint Bridget of Sweden 1303 - 1373 Feast Day: July 23 (new) October 8 (trad) Patronage: Europe, Sweden, Widows

Bridget of Sweden was married at 13 and the mother of eight children (the second eldest was St. Catherine of Sweden). After the death of her husband of twenty years, she founded the Bridgettines nuns and monks. Bridget was a mystic, who received visions from early childhood which became more frequent and definite. She believed that Christ Himself appeared to her, and she wrote down the revelations she then received. {website}

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[viridializard]

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[catholic-saint-tournament]

About St Anthony of Padua

About St Bridget of Sweden

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (July 23)

Today, July 23, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Bridget of Sweden.

Bridget received visions of Christ’s suffering many times throughout her life and went on to found the Order of the Most Holy Savior.

Daughter of Birger Persson, the governor and provincial judge of Uppland, and of Ingeborg Bengtsdotter, Bridget was born in Sweden in 1303.

From the time she was a child, she was greatly devoted to the passion of Jesus.

When she was only ten, it is recorded that she had a vision of Jesus on the cross and heard him say, “Look at me, my daughter."

"Who has treated you like this?" cried little Bridget.

Jesus answered, "Those who despise me and refuse my love for them.”

From that moment on, Bridget tried to stop people from offending Jesus.

When she was 14, Bridget married an 18-year old man named Ulf. Like Bridget, Ulf had set his heart on serving God.

They had eight children, including St. Catherine of Sweden.

Bridget and Ulf also served the Swedish court. Bridget was the queen's personal maid.

Bridget tried to help King Magnus and Queen Blanche lead better lives, however, for the most part, they did not listen to her.

All her life, Bridget had marvelous visions and received special messages from God.

In obedience to them, she visited many rulers and important people in the Church. She explained humbly what God expected of them.

After her husband died, Bridget put away her rich clothes and lived as a poor nun.

Later, in 1346, she began the Order of the Most Holy Savior, also known as Bridgettines.

She still kept up her own busy life, traveling about doing good everywhere she went.

And through all this activity, Jesus continued to reveal many secrets to her, which she received without the least bit of pride.

Shortly before she died, the saint went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. At the shrines there, she had visions of what Jesus had said and done in each place.

All revelations of St. Bridget on the sufferings of Jesus were published after her death.

St. Bridget died in Rome on 23 July 1373. She was proclaimed a saint by Pope Boniface IX on 7 October 1391.

On 1 October 1999, Pope John Paul II named Saint Bridget a patron saint of Europe.

Her feast day is celebrated on July 23, the day of her death.

"True wisdom, then, consists in works, not in great talents, which the world admires; for the wise in the world's estimation . . . are the foolish who set at naught the will of God, and know not how to control their passions."

— Saint Bridget of Sweden

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[cultureandcustoms]

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