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"Brigid's Fire", a perpetual flame, burned in Kildare in pre-Christian times and was
kept alight by Brigid and her nuns, possibly up to the sixteenth century. It was relit in
1993 by Mary Theresa Cullen, and then leader of the Brigidine sisters, in the Market
Square, Kildare, at the opening of a justice and peace conference. The conference entitled
Brigid: Prophetess, Earthwoman, Peacemaker, was organised by AFRI (Action from Ireland),
a justice, peace and human rights group, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of St Brigid's
Peace Cross Project. The relighting of the Brigid flame/fire seems to have caught the
imagination of people all over the world. Since then, Brigidine Sisters in Kildare are
honoured to be the keepers of the flame at Solas Bhríde.
The day is eagerly awaited when Brigid's fire will be perpetually kept alight in
Kildare. The "embers to enflame the future" are, meanwhile, being carefully tended and
rekindled.
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