Dancers perform in front of an image of St. Brigid projected onto The Wonderful Barn in Leixlip, Kildare, Ireland, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 during the Herstory Festival of Light.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Plain City man who worked at the Saint Brigid of Kildare parish as a safe environment coordinator was indicted for allegedly possessing child sexual abuse material. John ...

KILDARE, Ireland — St. Patrick has long received the attention and the big parades, but another patron saint of Ireland is making a 21st century comeback. St. Brigid of Kildare, a younger ...

St. Brigid is known as the patron saint of County Kildare and this year's festival includes a guided walk on the Curragh plains, as well as workshops both online and in-person, and much more.

This year on March 17, when you’re wearing the green and singing “ Dirty Ol’ Town,” take a moment to whisper thanks to St. Brigid, the compassionate, sensible, native-born patron saint of ...

DUBLIN, Ireland — The feast of St. Brigid of Kildare, Ireland’s female patron saint, will be a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland beginning in 2023, it was recently announced.

St. Brigid of Kildare is pictured in a stained-glass window in St. Brigid's Church in Crosshaven, a village in County Cork, Ireland, in this zoomed exposure taken Jan. 20. (CNS/Cillian Kelly) ...

St. Brigid, Ireland's other patron saint, left in the shadow of a man "Our other great patron saint St. Brigid of Kildare has never, ever, been given the warm love and respect and credit she ...

Devotees of St. Brigid in Ireland plan to celebrate on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, with the scheduled return of a relic associated with the so-called “matron saint of Ireland” — about a ...

The celebration in her hometown, southwest of Dublin, is part of Brigid 1500 — a series of observances across the world centered around the saint’s feast day of Feb. 1, marking the 1,500th ...

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