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Definition of Saint Bridget

1. Noun. Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saint Bridget

Literary usage of Saint Bridget

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... but was recognised by the council of Bale, forty years after her formal canonisation.0 Spread of the Order of Saint Bridget; Vadstena Convent That which ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"They received the rule of Saint Augustine, to which Saint Bridget herself added a few particulars, but constituted a new order — sometimes called the Order ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Saint Bridget, or SAINT BRIDE: b. Pochard, Armagh, Ireland, about the ... Saint Bridget, BIRGIT, or BRIGITTE, daughter of a Swedish prince: b. about 1302; ..."

4. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"They received tho rule of Saint Augustine, to which Saint Bridget herself added a few particulars, but constituted a new order — sometimes called the Order ..."

5. The Irish Penny Journal (1841)
"Saint Bridget was just at the door when she saw the ox with his horns thrust through the bars. / ' Arrah, what ails ye, poor baste ? ..."

6. The Irish Penny Journal (1841)
"I am not going to tell you one word about the fire—I am going to tell you how Saint Bridget got all this ground. Bad luck to Black Noll (a name given to ..."

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