Massasoit Community College celebrated its 58th commencement ceremony on Friday, May 23, under a tent on the College’s ...

Across the road from Boyle’s pub is Kildare’s Heritage Centre with a virtual reality adventure where you pull on a VR headset to meet Brigid, the pagan goddess of fire. Through the headset you are ...

Father Liam Lawson, composer of Classics of contemporary liturgical music, wrote “Light the Fire” to honor Brigid, whom he says bridges pagan and Christian Ireland. Brigid’s role as unifier was ...

Since 2023, the feast day has been a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, branded by the Irish government as “St. Brigid’s Day/Imbolc bank holiday.” (Imbolc was a pagan festival that ...

Brigid epitomizes everything a strong Irish ... water into beer may have made these miracles far more realistic for our pagan ancestors. Fact or fiction we’ll never know, because in Ireland ...

“St Brigid, I’m discovering ... as she took to the stage before singing old Gaelic love songs. “A pagan goddess, a saint, and an empowering symbol of female leadership.” ...

Fox has been pushing for a pagan military chaplain for 30 years ... Sanctuary so she could point out monuments on the land: Brigid Spring, a bubbling live spring where visitors tie ribbons ...

St. Brigid was born in Faughart, County Louth, around A.D. 451 or 452. Her mother was Broicsech, a captured Christian slave who was baptized by St. Patrick, and her father, Dubhthach, was a pagan ...

(Credit: James Martin, S.J.) In her native Ireland, St. Brigid has been enjoying a moment, revered by Catholics as an abbess and a disciple of St. Patrick. Others celebrate a pagan Celtic goddess ...