Early History of the Congregation
By Sr Mary O'Riordan CSB (Dublin)
A Religious Congregation comes into being in response to
some deeply felt contemporary need; and it was in answer to
the anguished cry of a deeply wounded Ireland that the Brigidine
Congregation was founded. The Penal Laws of the 18th
century had wrought what seemed irreparable havoc on the once
far-famed "Land of Saints and Scholars", leaving
its oppressed and largely pauperized people bereft of their
beautiful Gaelic culture, deprived of their much treasured
education tradition, and reduced to an underground practice
of their faith, in their effort to retain what was the very
'soul of their soul'.
Read on...
Beginnings of the Brigidine Congregation
By Sr Mary Dalton CSB (Tullow)
Daniel Delany was a Curate in Tullow during the episcopacy
of Dr. Keeffe, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. At that time
the Bishop resided in Tullow. The Penal Laws when in operation
placed many impediments to the exercise of 'Divine Worship
on the Sabbath day', and so religion was in a depressed state
in the country. Fr. Delany felt that 'more sin was committed
on the Sunday than during the entire week, as it was spent
by the greater number of people at public dances, card playing,
cock fighting and drinking'.
Read on...
THE
BRIGIDINE SHIELD
Learn about the Badge of the Congregation
of St Brigid.
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