Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
1 Lone footfalls echo through the corridors of Saint Bridget 's school in Loughrea.
2 There, within that now poor garden still bloom Saint Bridget 's leek, and once ran flowers.
3 By Saint Bridget , Kennedy, we were not far wrong when we called you a knight errant.
4 Take Saint Thomas, the Treasure of God, as Saint Bridget calls him: where was he born?
5 What is paid to the treasury of Saint Bridget , cannot, agreeably to our rule, be on any account restored.
6 This celebrated man has always ranked with Saint Patrick and Saint Bridget as the most glorious triad of the Irish Calendar.
7 I wish we had strung you up to Saint Bridget 's oak when we had you and your uncle in our power.
8 The stories include that of Saint Bridget and the King's Wolf, Saint Fronto's Camels, Saint Rigobert's Dinner, and Saint Francis of Assisi.
9 Bring 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.
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