St Brigit

Brigit, St, a national patron saint. Although her cult is attached to the church at Kildare, she is Brigantia, goddess and patron of the Brigantes, overlords of much of northern England at the time of the Roman conquest (AD 43), who settled in Leinster. There is a Latin life by Cogitosus and another in Irish. Her feast fell on 1 February, or Imbolg [see festivals].