St. Brigid Of Ireland Medal and Necklace

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St. Bridget of Ireland

In 436 a daughter was born to an Irish lord, named Duptace, at Fochard in Ulster, and called Bridget in baptism. From her infancy Bridget showed signs of the sanctity to which God’s grace was leading her. She was beloved by everyone on account of her amiability and her peaceable, obedient disposition; while a love for the poor seemed to have been born with her.

In addition to these virtues she possessed a singular beauty. Her father decided to arrange a noble marriage for his daughter, but what was his disappointment to find that she was indifferent to all, however desirable as to riches or station or virtues! When Bridget discovered that her beauty was the cause of so many flattering attentions, she asked God to take this beauty from her and thus put an end to the solicitations of her suitors and of her father.

God Answers Her Prayer

Her prayer was granted; and the loss of an eye, either by disease or an accident, so changed her face that those who had admired her turned away in disgust or in pity; while her father was happy to find her disposed to lead a religious life. She founded the monastery of Kildaire, the first Religious House of women in Ireland.

Many wonderful miracles were wrought by her. The Sign of the Cross seemed to be the one means by which her wonders were wrought. Having lived to her eighty-seventh year, St. Bridget had a warning of her death, which took place at her first monastery, Kildaire, on February 1, 523. Her body was buried there. When the Danes invaded and burned Kildaire, St. Bridget’s relics were carried to Down-Patrick where the body of St. Patrick reposed.

In 1186 Bishop Malachy found them and they were solemnly transferred to the Cathedral in his city. During the reign of Henry VIII, the Cathedral was destroyed and the relics were cast to the wind. The head of St. Bridget had been given to a church in Neustadt, Austria, and thus escaped the profanation. St. Bridget is considered the Second Patron Saint of Ireland, and has always been held in singular reverence in that country.

St. Brigid of Ireland Medal

Each morning as you put on this St. Brigid of Ireland Medal recite the following prayer as a reflection and reminder of the pious life of this great saint:
St. Brigid,
You were a woman of peace.
You brought harmony where there was conflict.
You brought light to the darkness.
You brought hope to the downcast.

May the mantle of your peace cover those who are troubled and anxious,
and may peace be firmly rooted in our hearts and in our world.
Inspire us to act justly and to reverence all God has made.

Brigid you were a voice for the wounded and the weary.
Strengthen what is weak within us.
Calm us into a quietness that heals and listens.
May we grow each day into greater wholeness in mind, body and spirit.
Amen.

St. Brigid of Ireland Rosary
UPC: 617759439809
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