St. Brigid Novena 2024: 9 Days of Powerful Prayers!

St. Brigid Novena is popular in Ireland and also among dairy and poultry farmers across Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

St. Brigid of Ireland is also known as St. Brigid of Kildare. She is the patron saint of Ireland, dairy workers, midwives, newborn babies, farmers, ranchers, milkmaids, poultry farmers, and beer.

Around the year 450, St. Brigid was born in Faughart, Ireland. Brioicsech, her mother, was a Portuguese Christian slave who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery in Ireland. St. Brigid worked on her father’s farm, herding livestock and sheep, and her father, Dubhthach, was a pagan chieftain.

Brigid is also supposed to have miraculously transformed water into beer for a leper colony and provided enough beer for 18 churches from a single barrel, earning her the title of the patron saint of beer.

About St. Brigid

Brocca was sold to a Druid landowner after Dubthach’s wife found she was pregnant. It’s unclear if Brocca was unable to give milk or was not available to care for Brigid, but tradition has it that because the druid was impure, Brigid vomited any meal the druid tried to feed her, so she was maintained nourished by a white cow with red ears.

Despite the fact that she was a slave, St. Brigid was noted for her incredible kindness. There are other miracle stories of her kindness that have been passed down through the generations. When she churned butter, it is reported that she would give a considerable amount to the destitute, but the butter would miraculously refill.

“Christ is in the person of every poor person who believes,” St. Brigid is said to have said when asked why she supported the needy. “I find it difficult to deny Christ His own food,” she continued.

St. Brigid of Ireland (not to be confused with St. Bridget of Sweden) was noted for her exceptional spirituality as well as her compassion and charity for others throughout her life.

Despite her odd upbringing, she was a contemporary of St. Patrick, and her commitment to God and desire to serve His will was noted from an early age. Her example of sensitivity and love for the impoverished and downtrodden in Ireland inspired many people to carry out acts of mercy even today.

Facts

Novena Starts: January 23rd
Feast Day: February 1st
Birth: 451
Death: 525

Significance of St. Brigid Novena

Brigid’s feast day is celebrated on February 1st in Australia and New Zealand, distant from Ireland. She was revered in early times in portions of Scotland and England that had been converted by Celtic churchmen.

St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London, is dedicated to her. St Brigid’s Day was a fertility feast in Ireland that marked the start of spring.

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St. Brigid Novena

Day 1

Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.

Intro Prayer

O Glorious St. Brigid,
Patroness of Ireland and Mother of the Churches,
protect the Irish Church
and preserve the true Faith in every Irish heart,
at home and abroad.
Obtain for us the grace to walk faithfully
in the path of Christian perfection during life,
and so to secure a holy and happy death,
with life everlasting,
in thy blessed company,
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Amen

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St. Brigid of Ireland, pray for us

Recite once

Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be