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Saint Brigid's Day


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    • Feast of Brigid
    • Imbolc
    • Saint Bridget's Day
    • Saint Brighid's Day
    • Saint Brigit's Day
    • St. Brigid's Day
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    • found: Work cat.: Ó Catháin, S. The festival of Brigit : Celtic goddess and Holy woman, 1995:p. ix (Oíche Fhéile Bríde (St. Brigit's Eve) and Lá Fhéile Bríde (St. Brigit's Day) celebrated 31 January and 1 February; the oldest names associated with the festival in Irish tradition was Imbolc)
    • found: Britannica Micro.:under article for Brigit or Brigantia (ancient Celtic goddess of the poetic arts, crafts, prophecy, and divination; the quivalent of the Roman goddess Minerva and Greek Athena; was taken over into Christianity as St. Brigit; feast day was Feb. 1, which was also the date of the pagan festival of Imbolc, the season when ewes came into milk) under article for Brigit of Ireland, Saint (Brigit's feast day is Feb. 1 and is observed as far away as Australia and New Zealand)
    • found: Holidays fest. and celebrations around the world, 1994(St. Bridget's Day; Feb. 1; St. Bridget's feast day)
    • found: LC NAMES file, 4/2/96, n85-251450(Brigid, of Ireland, Saint, ca. 453-ca. 524)
    • found: New world encyclopedia online, Dec. 4, 2018:Imbolc (Imbolc or Imbolg, also called Saint Brighid's Day; a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring; Most commonly it is held on January 31-February 1; one of the four Celtic seasonal festivals; appears to have been important time to the earlier inhabitants of Ireland, since the Neolithic period; Since the twentieth century, Celtic neopagans and Wiccans have observed Imbolc, or something based on Imbolc, as a religious holiday)
  • LC Classification

    • BF1572.S325
    • GT4995.B74
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  • Change Notes

    • 1996-03-11: new
    • 2019-01-24: revised
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