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St Brigid's Well are holy wells (sacred wells) connected with St. Bridgit of Kildare, a 5th-century Irish saint from Kildare in Ireland, who is one of the patron saints of Ireland, and also a figure in Irish folklore. The are popular pilgrimage places, and as per a 19th-century survey, there are at least fifteen such wells across Ireland, notably in Liscannor, in County Clare and Buttevant, County Cork in Ireland.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill )〕 ==Background== In Irish mythology, Brigid, Brigit or Brighit ("exalted one") was possibly the daughter of the Dagda (and therefore one of the Tuatha Dé Danann) and wife of Bres of the Fomorians. She had two sisters, also named Brighid, and maybe considered a Celtic Triple Goddess. Brigid was the goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare and the patron goddess of the Druids. She was the goddess of all things perceived to be of relatively high dimensions such as high-rising flames, highlands, hill-forts and upland areas; and of activities and states conceived as psychologically elevated, such as wisdom, excellence, perfection, high intelligence, poetic eloquence, craftsmanship, healing ability, druidic knowledge and skill in warfare. She seems to have been the Celtic equivalent of the Roman Minerva and the Greek Athena, goddesses with very similar functions and apparently embodying the same concept of 'elevated state', whether physical or psychological. After Christianity came to the Celts, Brigid was considered the foster mother of Jesus 'Mary of the Gaels' and was often called St. Brigit. Some sources suggest that Saint Brigit was an Irish Catholic bishop as the priest who was ordaining her became so overwhelmed by her holiness he said the wrong mass. 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「St Brigid's Well」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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