It's become common to say that St Brigid was an imagined figure, an unhistorical "saint" modelled on an earlier pagan goddess. We visited St Brigid's Well in Faughart, Co. Louth to delve into the evidence for the historical Brigid.

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More information on the St Maurice relic label: http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.p...

More information on the Echternach calendar: http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.p...

Artwork by: FRIZ (thisisfriz.com)
Shot and edited by: Patrick Grant (linktr.ee/patrickgrant)
Presented by: Conor McDonough OP

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