This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. CILL-DARA. The midnight wind roared through the oaks of Kildare, And a clang from the round tow'r at intervals came, While St. Bride at the Altar was kneeling in pray'r, And her Sisters attended the mystical flame. --Richard Dalton Williams, The Hymn of St. Brigid. T. BRIGID and her ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. CILL-DARA. The midnight wind roared through the oaks of Kildare, And a clang from the round tow'r at intervals came, While St. Bride at the Altar was kneeling in pray'r, And her Sisters attended the mystical flame. --Richard Dalton Williams, The Hymn of St. Brigid. T. BRIGID and her companions were has tening on to the place which is inseparably connected with the most active scenes of her life. Cill-Dara, in her native Leinster, would soon become the theatre of the crowning work of her long and useful career. The Lagenians were more than eager for her to return to the home of her childhood. They manifested their impatience for this event by sending a deputation of their prominent sons to our Saint, praying her to dwell amongst them, and promising her a welcome, regal in its warmth, when she set ner blessed feet on her natal soil. On her arrival they welcomed her as a Queen coming into her kingdom. It is said that Crimthann, the reigning monarch of Leinster, generously assisted our Saint to found the great religious establishment which has made Cill-Dara (Kildare) famous in the Annals of the Irish Church. The rich owners of the soil willingly offered St. Brigid a free gift of any part of their possessions she might select for a site whereon to build the chief Monastery of the Nuns of Erin. She had but to make her selection, and their property would pass into her hands for her free use and benefit. The holy Abbess was not slow to decide upon one of the most desirable situations amongst the many offered to her by the generous sons of Leinster. Overlooking the fertile plain of the Liffey, there was a splendid stretch of ground, which seemed to her particularly wensuited for the purposes she had in view. It was styled from ancient...
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