http://www.metafilter.com/tags/stbrigid Posts tagged with 'stbrigid' at MetaFilter. Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:24:06 -0800 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:24:06 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/48785/Happy%2DSt%2DBrigids%2DCandlemas%2DImbolc%2DGroundhog%2DDay <a href="http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pestcontrol/a/groundhog_day_4.htm">Celebrate the most underappreciated holiday of the year!</a> February 1st is <a href="http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ALandmks/HolyWells.html">St. Brigid's Day</a> or Imbolc or Candlemas. <a href="http://www.solasbhride.ie/">St. Brigid of Ireland</a>, the woman who some make a good case that she should be the <a href="http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/commentaria/article.php?textId=6">Patron Saint of Ireland before Patrick</a>. Others say she was the <a href="http://druidry.org/obod/festivals/imbolc/">pre-Christian fertility</a> or fire goddess of the Celts and that the <a href="http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintb03.htm">Catholic Church</a> co-opted her day as they did with many pagan pre-Christian holidays. Whether one celebrates Candlemas as a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03245b.htm">Catholic holy day</a> or as a one of the <a href="http://www.schooloftheseasons.com/candlemas.html">Pagan cross-quarter days</a>, it is also the <a href="http://www.ucc.ie/students/socs/fecc/imbolc.html">Festival of Lights</a>. Regardless, I have loved February 1st and 2nd since college as <a href="http://www.groundhog.org/faq/history.shtml">Groundhog Day</a> is the most whimsical <a href="http://www.punxsutawneyphil.com/">holiday of the year</a>, thankfully it does not have a 2 month retail buying season building up to it. Tomorrow, I shall take a photo to <a href="http://www.punxsutawneyphil.com/">Puxsutawney Phil</a> to <a href="http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ALandmks/HolyWells.html">St.</a> <a href="http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ALandmks/HolyWells.html">Brigid's</a> <a href="http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ALandmks/HolyWells.html">Well</a> in <a href="http://www.kildaretown.ie/">Kildare</a> to celebrate properly. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.48785 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:24:06 -0800 bhride Brighid Brigid candlemas christian England fertility fire groundhogday holiday holywell Ireland isolas mbolc pagan Pennsylvannia spring stbrigid sun winter msjen