[:en]From the New York Times: As Ireland’s Church Retreats, the Cult of a Female Saint Thrives[:]

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KILDARE, Ireland — Around the year 480, as legend has it, a freed slave named Brigid founded a convent under an oak in the east of Ireland. To feed her followers, she asked the King of Leinster, who ruled the area, for a grant of land.

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