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Brigid of Kildare

deity earth Irish single tradition · 3

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #111 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
450 CE
Attested period
450 – 2020
Historical notes
Recognized as one of the three patron saints of Ireland, associated with Kildare.

Relationships

allied with
Patrick, Colmcille, Dubthach maccu Lugair, Áed mac Bricc, Conleth, Saint Patrick
co occurs with
Coventina, Vesta, Brigantia, Hestia, Fea, Sirona, Femen
syncretized with
Brigid, Maman Brigitte

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (3)
  1. Saint Patrick
  2. Saint Columba
  3. Brigid

Source passages

“Colmcille is one of the three patron saints of Ireland, after Patrick and Brigid of Kildare.”

#1620 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“According to medievalist Pamela Berger, Christian monks "took the ancient figure of the mother goddess and grafted her name and functions onto her Christian counterpart," Brigid of Kildare. The saint's hagiographies "are mainly anecdotes and miracle stories, some of which are deeply rooted in Irish pagan folklore".”

#18185 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001