The Great Rood Screen
St. Brigid, Mary of the Gaels
Dcn. Seraphim tells us the life and miracles of Saint Brigid of Kildare — the only woman among Ireland's three patron saints, and perhaps the most beloved and mysterious of the three. Born around 451 to a pagan chieftain and a Christian bondwoman, Brigid enters the world between two religions and two social classes, marked from birth by a pillar of fire. Drawing on the earliest Latin Lives and the Old Irish Bethu Brigte, Dcn. Seraphim follows Brigid from her childhood of reckless generosity through her founding of the great monastery at Kildare, her miracles of abundance and healing, and her place in the hearts of the Irish as the Mary of the Gael.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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The Great Rood Screen is a podcast hosted by Deacon Seraphim Richard Rohlin about the Orthodox Catholic Saints and Faith of Britain and Ireland, told as those early faithful Christians told it, with piety and reverence. Join us for a year, along with other Orthodox scholars and clergy, as we walk through the calendar of the Insular Saints day by day, story by story, and discover the great cloud of witnesses who still adorn the rood screen of history and hagiography.
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