Brigid«Bríd / Brighid / Brighde / Brigida»

(c. 451–525)

Abbess / ἡγουμένη (of Kildare Abbey^†)

Mary of the Irish

Place of birth:Kingdom of Uí Failghe^††

Place of death:Kingdom of Leinster^†††

Feastday

1 February

Patronage

Patron of:New Zealand^††††; Ireland^{†††††}; Kildare^{††††††}; Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin^{†††††††}; Leinster^{††††††††}

Patron of:dairy workers, healers, milkmaids, newborns, nuns, poultry raisers

Invoked against:fire

^†Mainistir Chill Dara / Mainister Cell Dara / Abbatia Sanctae Brigidae Kildariae [c. 430–1540]

^††Rígdacht Uí Fáilge / Ríoghdhacht Uí Fháilghe / Riocht Uíbh Fhailí [6th cent.–1550]

^†††Cóiced Laigin / Rígdacht Laigin / Cúige Laighean [7th cent. BC–1603]

^††††Aotearoa

^{†††††}Éire

^{††††††}Cill Dara / Cell Dara

^{†††††††}Dioecesis Kildarensis et Leighlinensis / Deoise Chill Dara agus Leithghlinne

^{††††††††}Laighean

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:

D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.

Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.

Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.

Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990

and the following websites:

Saints.SQPN.com

Santi, beati e testimoni - Enciclopedia dei Santi

Santi e beati della Toscana

eCatholicHub Catholic Saints Database

The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee

Martyrologium Romanum - Index Generalis

www.synaxaristis - ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ

Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (An index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes)

Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England: Database Home

focal.ie - Dictionary of Irish Terms - Foclóir Téarmaíochta

logainm.ie - Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann - Placenames Database of Ireland

Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia