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See also:BRIDGET, See also:SAINT , more properly BRIGID (c. 452-523), one of the See also:patron See also:saints of See also:Ireland, was See also:born at Faughart in See also:county See also:Louth, her See also:father being a See also:prince of See also:Ulster. Refusing to marry, she See also:chose a See also:life of seclusion, making her See also:cell, the first in Ireland, under a large See also:oak See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree, whence the See also:place was called Kil-dara, " the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the oak." The See also:city cf See also:Kildare is supposed to derive its name from St Brigid's cell. The See also:year of her See also:death is generally placed in 523. She was buried at Kildare, but her remains were afterwards translated to See also:Downpatrick, where they were laid beside the bodies of St See also:Patrick and St See also:Columba. Her feast is celebrated on the 1st of See also:February. A large collection of miraculous stories clustered See also:round her name, and her reputation was not confined to Ireland, for, under the name of St See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
Bride, she became a favourite saint in See also:England, and numerous churches were dedicated to her in See also:Scotland.
See the five lives given in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum, Feb. r, i. 99, 119, 950. Cf. Whitley-See also:Stokes, Three See also:Middle-Irish Homilies on the Lives of Saint Patrick, Brigit and Columba (See also:Calcutta, 1874) ; Colgan, Acta SS. Hiberniae; D. O'Hanlon, Lives of Irish Saints, vol. ii.; See also:Knowles, Life of St Brigid (1907); further bibliography in Ulysse See also:Chevalier, Repertoire See also:des See also:sources hist. Bio.-Bibl. (2nd ed., See also:Paris, 1905), S.V.
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