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	Brigid's Place Feminine Spirituality
		Brigid's Place is a nonprofit organization incorporated by the State of Texas that provides a center for the spiritual transformation and empowerment of women through programs, classes, and workshops held at Christ Church Cathedral.
		Brigid's Place has been called "a sanctuary for the female soul." At Brigid's Place there are opportunities to pray and meditate alone or in community, find support and direction in small groups and conversation and within a mentorship program.
		Brigid's Place is named for St. Brigid, a fifth-century Irish Celtic saint who founded a monastery of both nuns and monks.
	www.brigidsplace.org (400 words)

	Brigid of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brigid was the goddess of fire, whose manifestations were song, craftsmanship, and poetry, which the Irish considered the flame of knowledge.
		Brigid was born in 451 or 452 of princely ancestors at Faughart, near Dundalk, County Louth; d.
		It is difficult to reconcile the statements of St. Brigid's biographers, but the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Lives of the saint are at one in assigning her a slave mother in the court of her father Dubhthach, a chieftain of Leinster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brigid_of_Ireland (1732 words)

	Brigid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brigid was the goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare and one of the goddesses worshipped by the Celtic peoples, including the druids.
		She was the goddess of all things perceived to be of relatively high dimensions such as high-rising flames, highlands, hill-forts and upland areas; and of activities and states conceived as psychologically lofty and elevated, such as wisdom, excellence, perfection, high intelligence, poetic eloquence, craftsmanship (especially flsmithy), healing ability, druidic knowledge and skill in warfare.
		On February 2, Brigid was celebrated at Imbolc, when she brought spring to the land.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brigid (540 words)

	Brigid: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In irish mythology, luchtaine (or luchta) was a son of brigid and tuireann and the carpenter or wright of the tuatha dé danann....
		In irish mythology goibniu or goibhniu was a son of brigid and tuireann and the smith of the tuatha dé danann....
		In irish mythology, brigid or brighid ("exalted one") was the daughter of dagda (and therefore one of the tuatha dé danann) and wife of bres of...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brigid.htm (1511 words)

	Brigit: The Survival of a Goddess
		Brigid is the traditional patroness of healing, poetry and smithcraft, which are all practical and inspired wisdom.
		Brigid‚s grief and lamentations were said to be the first heard in Ireland and were not only an expression of mourning for the loss of Her son but also for the enmity between maternal and paternal factions of family.
		Brigid, however, ruled that it was the woman‚s decision to either take the land as a warrior, being prepared to use arms to protect her holdings and her people.
	www.druidry.org /obod/deities/brigid.html (3359 words)

	St. Brigid
		Brigid made her monastery a remarkable house of learning for both men and women, including an art school devoted to for the creation of highly decorated handmade copies of scripture texts and other holy writings.
		Brigid's double monastery at Kildare was built at a location previously sacred to her pagan namesake, and the inner sanctuary of the Kildare Church also contained a blessed fire perpetually maintained by the nuns of her community.
		Brigid was one of the many Celtic saints who insisted that a vital component of the spiritual life is having a soul friend (anam cara).
	www.allsaintsbrookline.org /celtic/saints/brigid.html (2066 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Brigid of Ireland
		Bride; Bride of the Isles; Bridget of Ireland; Bridget; Brigid of Kildare Brigit; Ffraid; Mary of the Gael
		Brigid remained with her mother till she was old enough to serve her legal owner Dubtach, her father.
		Brigid's aged mother was in charge of her master's dairy.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintb03.htm (610 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Brigid of Ireland
		It is exceedingly difficult to reconcile the statements of St. Brigid's biographers, but the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Lives of the saint are at one in assigning her a slave mother in the court of her father Dubhthach, and Irish chieftain of Leinster.
		Although St. Brigid was "veiled" or received by St. Macaille, at Croghan, yet, it is tolerably certain that she was professed by St. Mel of Ardagh, who also conferred on her abbatial powers.
		As to St. Brigid's stay in Connacht, especially in the County Roscommon, there is ample evidence in the "Trias Thaumaturga", as also in the many churches founded by her in the Diocese of Elphim.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02784b.htm (1217 words)

	Brigid
		Excalibur, King Arthur's sword, was forged by the Lady of the Lake, a figure sometimes associated with Brighid because of her fire and forgery aspect.
		Brigid, which means "one who exaults herself," is Goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare (derived from "Cill Dara," which means "church of the oak") and often is considered to be the White Maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess.
		During this time Brigid personifies a bride, virgin or maiden aspect and is the protectoress of women in childbirth.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/brigid.html (395 words)

	Brigid, Celtic Goddess of Inspiration and Healing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Druid mythology, the infant goddess was fed with milk from a sacred cow from the Otherworld.
		Brigid's eldest son, using the knowledge of metalsmithing that he had learned from his mother, struck the first blow, killing the smith of the opposing army.
		Brigid's grief was enormous--for the continual hatred between the two sides of her family and for the death of her son.
	www.goddessgift.com /goddess-myths/celtic-goddess-brigid.htm (921 words)

	Brigid's Well - Sts. Brigid and Darlughdach of Kildare
		Brigid's double monastery at Kildare was built at a location previously sacred to her divine namesake.
		Brigid was one of the many Celtic saints who insisted that a vital component of the spiritual life is having a soul friend (aman cara).
		Brigid died in 525 on February 1st - the date of Imbolc, the annual festival of the goddess Brighid.
	www.brighidsfire.com /well/well5.html (468 words)

	Brigit
		The ancient Brigid, however, was in one of her three forms the goddess of smithcraft.
		Brigid also ruled poetry and inspiration, carrying for this purpose a famous caldron; her third identity was as a goddess of healing and medicine.
		And when her beloved son was killed, Brigid invented keening, the mournful song of the bereaved Irishwoman; this story draws her close to the great mother goddesses of the eastern Mediterranean, and like them, Brigid was identified with the earth herself and with the soil's fertility.
	www.hranajanto.com /goddessgallery/brigit.html (642 words)

	RealMagick Article: Brigid - The Goddess of Imbolc and Celtic Europe by Gwydion
		The Pagan goddess Brigid is perhaps one of the oldest goddesses of Celtic Europe still recognized and worshipped.
		A second aspect of Brigid was as goddess of smithcraft, carrying a famous cauldron for this purpose.
		Brigid was known as Brigantia in Northern Britain, and also as The Three Blessed Ladies of Britain, and The Three Mothers.
	realmagick.com /articles/07/1807.html (1977 words)

	A Gift of Hospitality - Saint Brigid, Abbess of Kildare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brigid was born at Faughart in County Down in 452, less than fifty years after the beginning of Saint Patrick's widespread missionary efforts among the Irish.
		Brigid was raised to be, as her mother, a servant and a Christian.
		But Brigid determined to offer these women a place of refuge and, in the same year of her tonsure, 470 A.D., she gathered together seven other nuns and approached the local king to petition a piece of land upon which to build a monastery.
	www.roca.org /OA/107/107e.htm (2272 words)

	Saint Brigid
		Brigid was noted for her generosity to the poor, and as a child once gave away her mother's whole store of butter.
		Significantly Brigid was also the name of a pagan goddess, and even seems to have been used as a general name for Irish goddesses, for the name means "exalted one".
		Brigid has been called "Mary of the Gaels" and a common salutation in the Irish language expresses the hope that "Brigid and Mary be with you".
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/people/saints/brigid.shtm (594 words)

	Brigid History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brigid, the goddess of healing, shared the knowledge of healing herbs and how to use them to help the sick and to soothe their pain.
		Brigid was referred to as "the keeper of the hearth" because her power was believed to be present within the hearth fire.
		Brigid's myths were absorbed into legends about the human St. Bridget, her Christian successor, in an effort to bring the Celts into a version of Christianity that they could accept.
	www.goddessvision.net /BrigidHistory.htm (1068 words)

	St. Brigid
		Brigid's status as a free woman now made her one of the clan (to use a much abused but here appropriate word)—that is, one of the three-generation family unit recognised by the law.
		Brigid is described in one ancient text as the first in Ireland to spin and weave cloth; the saying indicates that the nuns produced their own fabric, and were famous, perhaps, for its quality—like the Charity nuns of Foxford in Mayo, who to-day produce much of the best blankets and tweeds in Ireland.
		Brigid's best biographer[12] comments: "Is this the Illuminative Way that mystical writers, centuries later, endeavoured so laboriously to explain?" This visit of Brendan must have taken place when he was but a young man and Brigid an aged woman; for she died when he was in his teens.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/BRIGID.htm (14309 words)

	Lady Brigid Summerborn
		Parents: Brigid's father was a lord of Faerie, the lands to the East of the Fields of the Summerborn: her mother is Princess Fiona the Wise.
		For formal occassions, Brigid is partial to low-cut sweeping gowns of emerald green (that match her eyes) and shimmering silver.
		Lady Brigid Summerborn is the daughter of Princess Fiona the Wise and a Lord of Faerie.
	www.sff.net /people/terryo'brien/Characters/brigidl.htm (820 words)

	Brigid Berlin (Polk)
		Brigid Berlin (Polk) lives "clean and serene" (well, at least clean) in Manhattan and deals with her food addiction on a daily basis by going to a twelve step fellowship.
		Brigid was one of the few superstars who remained a regular friend of Andy Warhol until his death.
		Brigid was Andy's 'B' in the 'Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)'...
	www.warholstars.org /indfoto/berlin.html (306 words)

	Brigid: Celtic Goddess and Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Celtic goddess Brigid and her namesake, Saint Brigid of Ireland, can lay claim to being the most complex, intriguing, widespread, timeless, and beloved of all legendary ladies.
		Brigid, the 'Fire of the Hearth', was the goddess of fertility, family, childbirth and healing.
		Brigid, the '"Fire of the Forge', was like the Greek goddess Athena, a patroness of the crafts (especially weaving, embroidery, and metalsmithing), and a goddess who was concerned with justice and law and order.
	www.goddessgift.com /goddess-myths/goddess-brigid.htm (373 words)

	Brigid Berlin (Polk)
		Brigid was sent to the family doctor at the age of eleven to get amphetamines and dexedrine (little orange hearts), while her mother took Preludin.
		Although Brigid had to take a daily urine test to make sure she wasn't eating, she cheated by putting nail polish in her urine, thinking that one of the drugs in the nail polish was the same one produced by the body to indicate fasting.
		The conversations that Brigid Berlin taped between herself and her mother were the basis for Andy Warhol's play in the early seventies, Pork.
	www.warholstars.org /stars/brigid.html (2963 words)

	Brigid's Well: Exploring the Celtic Mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Understanding Brigid means understanding two figures who may in fact be the same persona; although they are seen in very different ways by different groups of people.
		Brigid is, first and foremost, a goddess of the pagan Celts.
		Her feastday in the Catholic calendar corresponds to the ancient Pagan holy day that was sacred to Brigid, Imbolc; her festival corresponds to the beginning of spring in Ireland and is celebrated on February 1.
	www.carlmccolman.com /brigidswell3.htm (697 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 1
		This is one of the ways Brigid sanctified the pagan with the Christian: The oak was sacred to the druids, and in the inner sanctuary of the Church was a perpetual flame, another religious symbol of the druid faith, as well as the Christian.
		Brigid was called 'Mary of the Gael' because her spirit of charity, and the miracles attributed to her were usually enacted in response to a call upon her pity or sense of justice.
		Successor of Saint Brigid of Kildare as abbess of that convent (Benedictines).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0201.htm (5561 words)

	St. Brigid Catholic Church - San Francisco, California
		The Committee to Save St. Brigid Church is recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt, nonprofit charitable organization under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3).
		When famed Irish sculptor Seamus Murphy carved the faces of the 12 apostles for the monumental statues on the front of the church, his models were the heroes of the 1916 Easter Rising.
		St. Brigid’s was determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places in October 1995 and is listed in many catalogs of the city’s historic buildings.
	www.st-brigid.org (662 words)

	Lady of the Depths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brigid is also a fire-goddess, as shown by the perpetual fire kept burning at her temple, Kildara ("the Church of the Oak", in the east of Ireland, the province of Leinster), even after it had become a convent and her vestals became nuns.
		Perhaps Brigid's most clever trick was to transform herself from a goddess into a Christian saint, thus assuring that the very Church opposing Irish paganism would perpetuate her tales and lore.
		Brigid's temple in Ireland was "the Church of the Oak"; the Oak was the World Tree for the Celts, the indestructible tree which is the gateway to other worlds where one may seek knowledge.
	www.elfhill.com /leighann/writings/brigid.html (2828 words)

	Oil and Tempera Paintings by Artist Brigid Marlin in the Mische Technique
		The art of Brigid Marlin describes a visionary world of almost unlimited dimensions and self-sufficiency...when I first saw The Rod I was so impressed by its imaginative sweep that I sent an enthusiastic letter of appreciation to her, the only fan letter I have ever sent to a painter.
		The compulsive picture language of Brigid Marlin hints at the visual signposts of a world whose deeper meaning slumbers in a kind of presensuality.
		The visual foreground is cleared away, the creation becomes transparent, and one enters a world which radiates rare psychological effects, testing the capacity of the spectator’s power to experience her art.
	www.brigidmarlin.com (481 words)

	The Wheel of the Celtic Year: Imbolc
		She is said to have had two sisters: Brigid the Physician and Brigid the Smith, but it is generally thought that all three were aspects of the one goddess of poetry, healing, and smithcraft.
		Brigid's flame was housed within a sacred enclosure, surrounded by a withy hedge which, Gerald reports, "no male may cross." A terrible fate awaited any man who tried, although the nature of the punishment was not specified.
		In Scotland Brigid was known as Bride and like her pagan predecessor reigned over fire, over art, and over beauty, fo cheabhar agus fo chuan (beneath the sky and beneath the sea.) As she presided over the birth of Spring, so legends tell that she was the midwife at Christ’s birth.
	www.celticspirit.org /imbolc.htm (4243 words)

	Goddess Brigid Altar
		For thousands of years it burned in honor of the Goddess Brigid, tended by nineteen Priestesses dedicated to Her.
		With the coming of christianity, the church suppressed the worship of the Goddess Brigid, but in fine Irish fashion, the people simply worshiped Her as St. Brigid and Her Sacred Flames continued to burn in Her honor.
		Brigid's Cross is a woven wheel of the year that marks the cycles of Nature and is sacred to the Goddess.
	www.spiralgoddess.com /Brigid.html (569 words)

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