Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath said she was wearing a St. Brigid’s cross during a briefing on the January 2025 wildfires and not an “inverted” cross, as posts online misleadingly ...

Ireland’s Kildare County has organized lectures, pilgrimages, and many activities in its Brigid 1500 Program to mark the anniversary, including a workshop on how to weave a St. Brigid’s Cross — St.

St Brigid was the feminist, peacemaker and environmentalist who went on to become the matron saint of Ireland. St Brigid's Day, on February 1, marks the start of spring and became a bank holiday in ...

Spring in Ireland officially starts on St Brigids Day which is February the 1st in our calendar? Which may not be accurate as this is a celebration that has its roots along way back in pre-christian ...

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

Kildare Irish Figure Dancers performed wonderful choreography in honor of St. Brigid's Day as part of the Brigid 1500 celebrations in Co Kildare. “Happy St Brigids everyone,” Irish dance choreographer ...

Something many of us will remember from primary school - the making of St Brigid's crosses is a lasting tradition. Perhaps the most painstaking part of manufacturing the crosses lies not in their ...

Thousands of secondary school students from Co Kildare have attempted to create a new world record at the Curragh Racecourse this afternoon by forming a human St Brigid's Cross. Up to 4,000 students ...

Through narrow, winding roads with overflowing hedgerows, Faughart appears virtually untouched through the centuries. I came to this ancient village a few months ago to visit St. Brigid’s Shrine.