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European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy

European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy,
8th Consultation, Dublin, 1-5 September 2004

The representatives gathered again under the same tree in the grounds of All Hallows College and offered a blessing from their own tradition, after which the Irish group presented everyone with a traditional St Brigid's Cross.

  • The first and largest Irish convent of St Brigid was at Kildare.

  • Her Feast Day falls on the 1st of February.

  • The Crosses are made on the Eve of the Feast and are hung indoors to bring good luck, and are believed to avert sickness and accident.

  • They can be made from rushes grown at the nearby St. Brigid's Well, Kildare.
     

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