Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
1Lone footfalls echo through the corridors of Saint Bridget's school in Loughrea.
2There, within that now poor garden still bloom Saint Bridget's leek, and once ran flowers.
3By Saint Bridget, Kennedy, we were not far wrong when we called you a knight errant.
4Take Saint Thomas, the Treasure of God, as Saint Bridget calls him: where was he born?
5What is paid to the treasury of Saint Bridget, cannot, agreeably to our rule, be on any account restored.
6This celebrated man has always ranked with Saint Patrick and Saint Bridget as the most glorious triad of the Irish Calendar.
7I wish we had strung you up to Saint Bridget's oak when we had you and your uncle in our power.
8The stories include that of Saint Bridget and the King's Wolf, Saint Fronto's Camels, Saint Rigobert's Dinner, and Saint Francis of Assisi.
9Bring these fine-coated gentlemen along, boys, and we'll set them dangling to a branch of Saint Bridget's oak, to teach their likes better manners.
10"Holy Saint Bridget!" said Bertha, shivering, "how cold it is!
11"In three days hence, let me receive thy shrift at the convent of Saint Bridget," continued the ecclesiastic.
Translations for Saint Bridget