Saint Brigid and the Virgin Mary

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What is your interpretation of this event?
“The rose,” Mary told Saint Brigid, “gives a fragrant odor; it is beautiful to the sight, and tender to the touch, and yet it grows among thorns, inimical to the beauty and tenderness. So may also those who are mild, patient, beautiful in virtue, be put to a test among adversaries. And as the thorn, on the other hand, guards, so do wicked surroundings protect the just against sin by demonstrating to them the destructiveness of sin.”
 
Unless you are talking about a more modern St. Brigid, I would take with a grain of salt any tale about St. Brigid of Ireland. Today the most the Church will say about St. Brigid is that she was an early saint about which little is know, much like St. Valentine. St. Brigid evolved from the stories of the goddess Brigid, the cult of which was mainly in Ireland. She was a hearth goddess. I am afraid that this is one of those things that got baptized by the Church to convert pagans. I have a background in the occult and am well aware that even today there is a neo-pagan cult of “St. Brigid.”
 
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St. Brigid was a real person and one can visit her convent.
 
CRATUS said:
What is your interpretation of this event?
“The rose,” Mary told Saint Brigid, “gives a fragrant odor; it is beautiful to the sight, and tender to the touch, and yet it grows among thorns, inimical to the beauty and tenderness. So may also those who are mild, patient, beautiful in virtue, be put to a test among adversaries. And as the thorn, on the other hand, guards, so do wicked surroundings protect the just against sin by demonstrating to them the destructiveness of sin.”
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This sounds similar to The Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat
usccb.org/bible/matthew/13

When roses are kept in a vase they are admired for the flower not the thorny stem. Yet they cannot be without the thorny stem.
 
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This sounds similar to The Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat
usccb.org/bible/matthew/13

When roses are kept in a vase they are admired for the flower not the thorny stem. Yet they cannot be without the thorny stem.
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Most roses do have thorns but there is a thornless variety called Zepherine Drouhin, an old-fashioned Bourbon rose. It’s fragrance can fill up an entire house.
 
CRATUS said:
What is your interpretation of this event?
“The rose,” Mary told Saint Brigid, “gives a fragrant odor; it is beautiful to the sight, and tender to the touch, and yet it grows among thorns, inimical to the beauty and tenderness. So may also those who are mild, patient, beautiful in virtue, be put to a test among adversaries. And as the thorn, on the other hand, guards, so do wicked surroundings protect the just against sin by demonstrating to them the destructiveness of sin.”
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It’s about the Good and Bad in life.
 
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St. Brigid was a real person and one can visit her convent.
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OK, then we are talking about a different St. Brigid. The pagan Brigid is the one which is tied to a feast on Feb. 1. The pagans called it Imbolc. You can read about it and Brigid’s crosses, which are still made in Ireland today around that time, here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigid%27s_cross

You can read about the monastery where a Christianized version of a sacred flame to the goddess Brigid is kept, along with some background on Christianizing Brigid here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigid

The pagan Brigid is know as Brigid of Kildare.
 
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