St. Brigid at St Brigid's Catholic Church - Red Hill - QLD - Australia
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St Brigid's Church is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church located at 78 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, City of Brisbane
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Location: Queensland, Australia
Date Posted: 11/11/2017
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St Brigid's Church is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church located at 78 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built from 1912 to 1914 by Thomas Keenan. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Date retrieved: 11 November 2017 15:38 UTC
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St Brigid is one of the Patron Saints of Ireland, along with Patrick and Columba.
Brigid was probably born in eastern Ireland in 451 or 452, and died in Kildare, Ireland about 525.
She was inspired by the teachings of St Patrick and vowed to enter religious life.
About the age of 18 she settled near Croghan Hill with seven like-minded girls. They consecrated their lives to God’s will and to His service. Brigid founded an abbey in Kildare in 470, and, as an abbess, she held the rank and function of a bishop.
She established schools for men and women, and realized the need for the body, mind and spirit to be intertwined and nourished. She founded a school of art which included metal work and illumination of manuscripts. The quality of the art here was well known and copied through the known world at that time.
Her chief virtues lay in her common sense, gentleness, compassion, holiness and hospitality, which won affection from all who knew her.
Brigid was called ‘Mary of the Gael’ because of her spirit of charity and the miracles attributed to Her.
Her statue and the stained glass window above the altar at St Brigid’s show her with a building in her hand, a reference to her mission to erect monasteries and schools in Ireland.
Her feast day is on the 1st of February.
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