Not just St. Patrick’s Day: Ireland is now celebrating its feminist matron saint, Bridget

LONDON – Ireland has always had a patron saint: St. Patrick, whose cult goes beyond religion, making him a national symbol also known abroad. But now the Emerald Isle, as it is nicknamed for the color of its meadows eternally wet with rain, also has a holy matron: St. Bridgetcelebrated this year for the first time with a public holiday in his honour.

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