She inspired and transformed many people’s lives and performed great miracles of healing and of increase.
Conleth, blacksmith and bishop, was the companion of Brigid there.īrigid was greatly loved and known for her wisdom, good advice, hospitality and generosity. The abbey was a place of plenty, a place of learning and healing for all. It became famous for the art and craftsmanship created there, inspired by angels it was said.
Here, women and men lived peaceful, prayerful lives together. She lived and learned at the Beckery in Glastonbury before founding her abbey Cill Dara, the house under the oak, in Kildare Ireland. The bishop, prompted by the Holy Spirit blessed her as an Abbess as well as a nun. Brigid too wilful to become a wife chose to enter a monastery. Their love and the truth of their traditions met in the child. Her father was a druid chief named Dubtach, her mother Brocessa his Christian slave. a child filled with the spirit of the goddess Brigid was born in Ireland and was named Brigid, also called Bridie. She is the bridging and balancing energy that reveals the unifying principle between and above the experience of duality between divine and human, tribe and land. Call to her as midwife at the birth of new ways of being in your life and as godmother as they grow and flower.īrigid is the inspiration of poets and prophets. She is the spirit of Imbolc, the first stirrings of spring. The hazel tree and the swan are sacred to Brigid, the wolf her companion.īrigid is the personification of the spiritual aspect of the natural impulse for new life. Hence Her presence at the White Spring which is so greatly treasured.
Brigid is also a guardian of sacred springs and wells. The ley-line known as the Michael line runs right through the building and Micheal, forever associated with Glastonbury Tor, is also honoured here.īrigid, is a Celtic fire goddess, keeper of the hearth fire, of the fire in the forge, and of the Divine flame which burns in our hearts. The shrine in honour of the King of the World of Faerie is at the portal to the otherworld, as legend has it. A shrine in honour Our Lady of Avalon can be found beside the healing pools. The White Spring is home to a shrine in honour of Brigid, Celtic Fire Goddess and guardian of sacred springs, within it, The Brigid Flame perpetually burns. The seasonal altar changes every six weeks to reflect the changes of nature throughout the year, and offerings from the natural world are welcome here. We wish to keep these shrines clear and set as they were intended, so any offerings left at the shrines will be prayerfully moved to the seasonal altar. The shrines are carefully set and cared for by the keepers of the spring. The temple contains shrines in honour of the spiritual energies of this place.
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