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    The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess
    The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess
    The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess
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      The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess, by

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      Title: The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess

      Author: Anonymous

      Other: John Murphy

      Release Date: January 18, 2012 [EBook #38613]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE OF SAINT BRIDGET ***

      Produced by Michael Gray, Diocese of San Jose

      THE

      LIFE OF SAINT BRIDGET

      VIRGIN AND ABBESS

      PATRONESS OF IRELAND

      O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory! for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known with God and with men, and it triumpheth, crowned for ever. WISD. iv, 1.

      NEXT to the glorious St. Patrick, St. Bridget—whom we may consider his spiritual daughter in Christ—has ever been held in singular veneration in Ireland. Even in the neighboring kingdoms of England and Scotland, as a foreign writer affirms, this great saint has, after the glorious Virgin Mother of God, been singularly honored and revered. [1] A pity, then, it is, that we know so little of her hitherto, and that our means of knowing much are still so scanty. We are not able to give more than a biographical sketch, but the facts are so interesting, and above all so edifying, as will in some measure compensate for their fewness. To commence, then, our account of

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