Saint Brigid of Kildare

February 1st
Troparion (Tone 1)
O holy Brigid, thou didst become sublime through thy humility, and didst fly on the wings of thy longing for God. When thou didst arrive in the Eternal City and appear before thy Divine Spouse, wearing the crown of virginity, thou didst keep thy promise to remember those who have recourse to thee. Thou dost shower grace upon the world, and dost multiply miracles. Intercede with Christ our God that He may save our souls.

St. Brigid was born of pagan parents in the year 450 in Faughart, Ireland.  Even as a child, she would give away food, clothing, and household possessions to the poor.  Her father became so  distressed watching her give away his valuables that he sought to sell her to the king.  He told St. Brigid to wait outside.  When the king asked to see her, her father brought him outside only to find her giving away a sword that was a gift from the king to her father.  The king did not want her after seeing that.  St. Brigid became a monastic and established the first women's cenobitic monastery of Ireland on land that was given to her by the King of Leinster.  The land was called Cill Dara or Kildare, meaning "the church of the oak."  In this icon, St. Brigid is holding a cross made of reeds or rushes.  In honor of St. Brigid, crosses of this sort are still made in Ireland.  She fell asleep in the Lord in the year 523.  

Her scroll reads: "To care for the poor; To lighten everyone's burden; To comfort the suffering."

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