Devotees of St. Brigid are commemorated the 1,500th anniversary of her death Thursday, the feast day of the so-called matron saint of Ireland, who’s been gaining a modern following.

Dancers perform in front of an image of St. Brigid projected onto The Wonderful Barn in Leixlip, Kildare, Ireland, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 during the Herstory Festival of Light.

To mark St. Brigid’s Day, Ireland’s first-ever national holiday dedicated to a woman, Herstory is celebrating modern women who embody Brigid's qualities as environmentalist, feminist, activist ...

Brigid is the spiritual mother of our nation; we honor her by praying through her intercession by spreading the cult of St. Brigid, her devotion, imitating her virtues, her spirit of hospitality ...

KILDARE, Ireland — St. Patrick has long received the attention and the big parades, but another patron saint of Ireland is making a 21st century comeback. St. Brigid of Kildare, a younger ...

An image of St. Brigid projected as part of the Herstory Light Show on St Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare, when landmarks across Ireland were lit up to honour survivors of mother and baby homes as ...

St. Brigid was born in the fifth century in Faughart, County Louth. Her feast day is on Feb. 1 and folk history says she also died on that day.

St. Brigid’s Day and Imbolc, a pagan holy day associated with the goddess Brigid and heralding the coming of spring, both fall on Feb. 1, although Ireland is observing the public holiday on the ...