{"id":27629,"date":"2025-02-04T19:41:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/st-brigid-of-ireland-and-her-unmistakable-irish-cross\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T19:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:41:41","slug":"st-brigid-of-ireland-and-her-unmistakable-irish-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/st-brigid-of-ireland-and-her-unmistakable-irish-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Brigida d'Irlanda e la sua inconfondibile croce irlandese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>[ad_1] null \/ Credit: MantasVD\/Shutterstock Dublin, Ireland, Feb 1, 2025 \/ 04:00 am (CNA). Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way Ireland\u2019s patron saint, St. Patrick, used a shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity.&nbsp;St. Brigid crosses. Credit: Joe PassmoreThe St. Brigid cross is typically made from reeds or rushes that grow\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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Credit: Joe PassmoreThe St. Brigid cross is typically made from reeds or rushes that grow\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-27629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27558,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/irelands-spiritual-mother-faces-secular-reinterpretation\/","url_meta":{"origin":27629,"position":0},"title":"Ireland\u2019s spiritual mother faces secular reinterpretation","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Febbraio 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"[ad_1] St. Brigid of Kildare building the Church of the Oak, detail from a window of St. Etheldreda\u2019s Church in London. \/ Credit: Lawrence OP via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Dublin, Ireland, Feb 1, 2025 \/ 05:00 am (CNA). In Ireland, Feb. 1 marks the beginning of spring and the celebration of \"L\u00c3\u00a1 Fh\u00c3\u00a9ile Br\u00c3\u00adde\u201d \u2014 St. Brigid\u2019s Day. 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