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Saint Brigit of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland ((アイルランド語:Naomh Bríd); 525) is one of Ireland's patron saints, along with Patrick and Columba. Irish hagiography makes her an early Irish Christian nun, abbess, and founder of several monasteries of nuns, including that of Kildare in Ireland, which was famous and was revered. Her feast day is 1 February, which was formerly celebrated as a pagan festival (Imbolc) marking the beginning of spring and the lambing season. Her feast day is shared by Dar Lugdach, whom tradition says was her student and the woman who succeeded her. The saint shares her name with an important Celtic goddess and there are many legends and folk customs associated with her. ==Name== Brigit has the same name as the goddess Brigid, derived from the Proto-Celtic *''Brigantī'' "high, exalted" and ultimately originating with Proto-Indo-European *''bʰerǵʰ-''. In Old Irish her name was spelled ''Brigit'' and pronounced (:ˈbʲrʲiɣʲidʲ). In Modern Irish it was spelled ''Briġid'' / ''Brighid'' and pronounced (:bʲɾʲiːdʲ); it became ''Bríd'' with the 1948 spelling reform. In English her name is variously spelled ''Brigid'', ''Bridget'', ''Bridgit'', ''Brid'', and she is sometimes known as ''Mary of the Gael''. In Welsh she is called ''Fraid'' (genitive ''Ffraid'', as in several places called Llansanffraid, "St. Brigit's church/parish"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brigit of Kildare」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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