A fun fact about Brigid is that while most Irish saints were indeed real people and historical figures, there is no evidence at all that Brigid existed – instead her name, many aspects of her life and the miracles attributed to her are taken from the stories of the Celtic pagan goddess Bríd, right down to being the personification of the spring season with St. Brigid’s Day and the pagan spring festivals sharing the same date, it was a common practice among missionaries to steal local mythologies/folklore and corrupt them to make Catholicism more palatable
That’s like St Patrick and the snakes. There’s no evidence of anyone in Ireland taking a bath before 1905
And all she did was add some hops, barley yeast and waited a few months.
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Harp did the reverse.
A fun fact about Brigid is that while most Irish saints were indeed real people and historical figures, there is no evidence at all that Brigid existed – instead her name, many aspects of her life and the miracles attributed to her are taken from the stories of the Celtic pagan goddess Bríd, right down to being the personification of the spring season with St. Brigid’s Day and the pagan spring festivals sharing the same date, it was a common practice among missionaries to steal local mythologies/folklore and corrupt them to make Catholicism more palatable
That’s like St Patrick and the snakes. There’s no evidence of anyone in Ireland taking a bath before 1905
And all she did was add some hops, barley yeast and waited a few months.