Saint bridget of ireland biography of barack

Bridget, Saint, one of the three patron saints of Ireland, was born about 455, of illustrious parents, at Faugher, near Dundalk.

She received a good education, and to singular modesty and simplicity of manners united great charity.

When her parents urged her to accept a suitor, it is said that, in answer to prayer, one of her eyes became frightfully deformed, and she was quietly permitted to take the veil—her eye recovering when the ceremony was over.

She was then sixteen years of age.

Collecting a number of young girls like herself, she established a religious retreat in the County of Meath; her reputation for sanctity increased daily, and crowds of young women and widows applied for admission to her institution.

To establish similar monasteries she visited Limerick, Roscommon, and other parts of Ireland.

Between 480 and 490 she removed to Kildare, which will ever be associated with her name.

Her charity was only equalled by her humility; occasionally s