Brigidines celebrate with our Sisters and Team at Solas Bhride.
On 14 July 2024, the traditional practice of weaving Brigid’s cross gained recognition in Ireland’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
“It is providential that the recognition comes in the year when we commemorate the 1500th anniversary of the death of St. Brigid.
Cross weaving practiced by young and old in Ireland and elsewhere invokes Irish myth, legend, folklore, spirituality and culture.”
– Geraldine Moore
(Solas Bhride Team)
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Weaving Brigid’s Cross – Cultural Heritage
“…the core features of all that (Brigid) represents remain timeless and changeless. So we see Brigid’s connectedness with creation, of the natural environment. She was renowned for her love and respect for animals. And it’s wonderfully appropriate, that her cross is traditionally woven from straw or rushes from the very fabric of Earth. We so need that healing of our relationship with creation.”
– Alison Joyce,* February 2024, Kildare
*Canon Alison Joyce, Rector, St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, City of London. From: Homily, Ecumenical Service, St Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare, Ireland on Feast of St Brigid,1st February 2024
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