With St. Brigid's Day 2025 upon us, we figured you might want to brush up on the history and traditions of the iconic St. Brigid's Cross - and learn how to make your own!

Dublin, Ireland, Feb 1, 2025 / 04:00 am. Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain ...

St. Brigid's Day, February 1, is when Ireland remembers the Celtic goddess Brigid and her immense power in both the Irish mythological and Catholic religious imagination.

Ireland's best-known female saint also has her own unique symbol - the St Brigid's cross. Church and community groups will ...

FILE – A woman holds a St. Brigid Cross as she participates in a candlelight pilgrimage walk, which makes its way past an ancient well associated with St Brigid, to the Solas Bhride Centre in ...

A St. Brigid’s cross is traditionally made out of rushes or reeds freshly pulled from the ground. Father Patrick Joseph Hughes, a country priest in County Cavan, ...

From RTÉ Archives, a 1993 episode of Jo-Maxi looks at the tradition of the St Brigid's Cross. The story goes that the saint was walking past a house and heard a man groaning in pain.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath said she was wearing a St. Brigid’s cross during a briefing on the January 2025 wildfires and not an “inverted” cross, as posts online ...

Read more: Cross these experiences off your travel bucket list on St Brigid's Day in Ireland. The body of St Brigid was moved to Downpatrick in modern-day Northern Ireland ahead of an expected ...

Devotees of St. Brigid plan to celebrate her Sunday with the scheduled return of a relic associated with the so-called matron saint of Ireland. The festivities come about a millennium after her ...

Devotees of St. Brigid are commemorated the 1,500th anniversary of her death Thursday, the feast day of the so-called matron saint of Ireland, who’s been gaining a modern following.

Thousands of students plan to mark the pause on the nearby Curragh Plains by making a human formation of a large St. Brigid’s Cross, shaped by a square with four symmetrical arms.