Brigitte of Ireland

See also: Brigitte

Holy Brigitte of Ireland or Brigitte de Kildare (451 - 525) was born with Faughart close to Dundalk, in the Comté of Louth, in Ireland. It is honoured it.

A pagan king Scottish was the father of Brigitte and his/her mother was a Christian slave, baptized by Saint Patrick. She was named thus according to the female divine principle (Brigit) among Celts. She built under a large Chêne a cell around which several women gathered and took it for mother. She thus founded a convent, around whose the town of Kildare was formed. She adopted for this convent the Règle of saint Césaire (towards 513). This rule was taken again by several convents of Ireland. This convent is the first Monastère doubles Europe: it gathered monks and moniales.

She died in Kil Dara and she was buried in Downpatrick with Saint Patrick and saint Columcille (holy Colomba d' Iona) who are two other patron saint of Ireland.

See too

  • For the origin: Brigit is the Celtic divinity éponyme of holy Brigitte of Ireland.

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