Are you celebrating St Bridgid's day tomorrow?

[Gwendoline]

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Americans know all about St Patrick but forget St Brigid, St Columba, St Brendan, Saint Ciaran and others.

[WhiteSteve]

I’m not Catholic but I live amongst them. My buddy from high school actually became a Catholic priest. He’s gotta be the best looking priest in the game, no Diddy, lmao, handsome kid. Oh man, his girlfriend when we were in 9th grade was RIDICULOUS, relative to being 15.

But he was just always deep in that Catholic life. His father experienced something of a medical miracle that he credits to Catholicism, so they’re just ALL ABOUT IT. I guess he had supposedly terminal cancer and it just disappeared after visiting some religious statue in Europe somewhere, or something like that. I don’t know if I buy that it was a religious miracle, but I could at least see where he’d believe so. So they’re ’bout that life.

Haven’t seen him since we were 19, but I kind of want to roll up on him one day and see how he’s doing.

Anyway, I’m in the Boston area, so St. Paddy’s Day is of course a big thing. Hardcore Catholics will probably be acknowledging it. We have a St. Brigid’s church in Southie. And in the part of Boston I grew up, it was very common to refer to your neighborhood by the parish. “I’m from St. Mark’s/St. Ann’s/St. Brendan’s” etc, rather than the sub-neighborhood’s name like Field’s Corner, Lower Mills, Neponset, etc.

I’m sure someone nearby is celebrating it

[KostasKouvalis]

I'm not. I don't even know what that is, or how one would celebrate it. Though now I'm curious if my church knows about it

[Gwendoline]

Catholic?

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah, Catholic. But we don't really celebrate feast days here like they do in actual Catholic countries

[Gwendoline]

There are a lot of feast days, if you feasted on everyone of them you'd be as big as a house

[purplepoppy]

she carrief out Irelands first abortion on a nun. Are you surprised they don't teach that in the USA.

[Anonymous]

@hello4433 And the OP doesn't bother to tell us.

[Sunrising]

I'm interested in knowing about the saints, and what they did, but apparently there's over 10,000 saints.

[Paige90]

No - I am not Catholic and I don't celebrate Catholic stuff.

[AviatorTom]

The only day I celebrate is tomorrow, every time it arrives.

[Dargil]

I'm not in the Catholic tradition. I do honor Patrick and Valentine. Both are coming up.

[Anonymous]

Those are very cool saints. St. Brigid supposedly said “I will build a great lake of beer for the king of kings when he returns.”

[Med_guy1978]

I'm Christian but I haven't heard of that Saint but I'll have a Google and read.

[Grond21]

I'm not familiar with it. can you tell me what it is?

[MikeRJ]

I am Catholic but have only heard the name. I don't know anything about her. Thank you for mentioning her. I will educate myself about her.

[NathanDavis]

I don't really know about it

[NicholasRedone]

No.

No Im not.

[red-lipstick-girl]

No, I am not celebrating because I am Muslim.

[Wiredone]

I don't even know what that is

[LadyBecks]

I've never heard of this day

[DrPepper12]

No. Next question

[Gwendoline]

I will pray for you.

[Eros91]

No never heard of it.

[SuperZonicGUY1992]

It's a tradition in my family.

[hello4433]

Nope, and I don't know what that is

[HungTexan]

Not Catholic, so I guess not.

[shortster]

Who is that?

[Gwendoline]

Saint Bridgid

[shortster]

Why is she a saint?

[Gwendoline]

Bringing Christianity to the pagans of Ireland, Scotland and England

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah, it says her feast day is honored by the Catholic and Orthodox church in Europe, but it's only a national holiday in Ireland.
It seems to mostly be a Celtic thing and it's called Imbolc. It's so fascinating to me how intertwined Pagan and Christian traditions are, in this case, literally.
Thanks for introducing me to it.

[shortster]

But not the Welsh?

[Gwendoline]

@KostasKouvalis makes sense. The religion is the same but then culture changes by country and then going forward each country will have their own cultural history with Christianity.

[shortster]

America only celebrates the holidays of other countries if they can get drunk

[strateguy632]

Nope

[Anonymous]

Do you like snuggling or cuddling?

[Rimaisme]

Nope

[Wise4myage]

What is that?

[Gwendoline]

Saint Bridgid

[Wise4myage]

Thanks.