[DOC] [TLE] Saint Brigid of Kildare - Wikipedia [PAR] Saint Brigit of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland is one of Ireland's patron saints, along 
with Patrick and Columba. Irish hagiography makes her an early Irish Christian 
nun, abbess, and founder of several monasteries of nuns, including that of 
Kildare ..... In 1185, John de Courcy had their purported remains re-buried in 
Down... [DOC] [TLE] St. Brigid of Ireland - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online [PAR] Patron of Ireland, dairymaids, cattle, midwives, Irish nuns, and newborn babies ... 
Saint Brigid was born Brigit, and shares a name with a Celtic goddess from ... 
One story says Brigid once gave her mother's entire store of butter, that was later 
... but in 40 she founded a monastery in Kildare, called the Church of the Oak. It 
was... [DOC] [TLE] St. Bridget - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online [PAR] Each topic has a list of its patron saints. ... St. Bridget arrived in Ireland a few 
years after St. Patrick. ... One day she gave away a whole pail of milk, and then 
began to worry about what her mother would say. ... She became the first 
Religious in Ireland and founded a convent so that other young girls might 
become Nuns. [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about PATRON SAINTS - StudyStack [PAR] BRIGID FOUNDED THE FIRST CONVENT IN THIS COUNTRY, AT KILDARE ... 
IT'S BELIEVED THAT THIS PATRON SAINT FOUNDED MANY ... THE NAME OF 
THIS PATRON SAINT OF WAYFARERS COMES FROM GREEK FOR "ONE WHO
... [DOC] [TLE] Story of St. Brigid - St. Brigid's GNS, Glasnevin [PAR] Brigid founded many convents all over Ireland; the most famous one was in Co. ... 
Around 470 she also founded a double monastery, for nuns and monks, in 
Kildare. ... rituals in Ireland to celebrate the beginning of early spring, 1st 
February. ... and it remains there to this day St. Brigid is the female patron saint of 
Ireland. [DOC] [TLE] Saint Brigit of Ireland | Irish saint | Britannica.com [PAR] Virgin and abbess of Kildare, one of the patron saints of Ireland. ... At Kildare she 
founded the first nunnery in Ireland. Their community became a double abbey, for 
monks and nuns, with the abbess ranking above the abbot. ... country of western 
Europe occupying five-sixths of the westernmost major island of the British Isles... [DOC] [TLE] Saint Brigid: the Mary of the Gael - EWTN.com [PAR] "Brigit is one of the Irish saints as to whose relationship with a pagan divinity 
there ... to the perpetual fire which was kept burning in St. Brigid's Abbey at 
Kildare. ... as its second patron, was a nun, like Brigid, whose life was relatively 
uneventful, ...... had met Patrick by the well of ClebachBrigid founded several 
convents. [DOC] [TLE] Saint Bridget Catholic Church | Our Patron [PAR] St. Bridget, Patron of our Church, was probably born in a small Irish village ... at 
Cill-Dara [translated Kildare] and was abbess of the convent, the first of its kind in 
Ireland. ... Bridget founded a school of art at Kildare and its illuminated 
manuscripts ... Bridget was one of the most remarkable women of her time, and 
despite the... [DOC] [TLE] Our Patron [PAR] St Bridget Patron Saint. ... founded both a monastery and convent at Cill-Dara (
Kildare) and was the first abbess of the convent, the first of its kind in Ireland. [DOC] [TLE] Saint Brigid of Kildare | Catholicism | Pinterest | Patron Saints ... [PAR] Brigid formed the first feminist collective  a convent for nuns where, for the first ... 
Ireland's pro-choice movement hails St. Brigid as their patron saint because of 
this. ... Saint Brendan the Voyager (6th cent) founded several monasteries in 
Ireland ... St. Brigid's Cross: Associated with Brigid of Kildare, who is venerated 
as one... [DOC] [TLE] Irelands Saints - Discovering Ireland Vacations [PAR] St Patrick is buried in Downpatrick, close to the site of his very first church at Saul 
and is ... One of Ireland's Patron Saints, Saint Brigid was daughter of

Question: St. Brigid founded the 1st convent in this country, at Kildare, & is one of its patron saints
Answer: Ireland