Everybody knows who St Patrick is ...I am aware that the celebrations are over and all the green clothes are packed for next year. Pity that St Patrick did not come to Goa..he would have got rid of all the Cobras as he did all the snakes in Ireland ..
In some ways St Patrick, a former English SLAVE was sent to Ireland and struck the fear of the Lord into Kings ,ordinary people and even Wizards. This Patrick fellow even before he became a Saint was a <<No Nonsense fellow >>>> According to the earliest hagiographer <https://www.confessio.ie/more>, Cogitosus, writing only decades after states the saint in constant conflict with the “heathens” whom he tried to convert to Christianity. Smart fellow first he attacked the Druids or Court Wizards . King Loegaire Mac Néill was so shocked that he exclaimed *>>>> “it is better to believe than die,>>>>” * When one evil doer tried to lure him into an ambush by pretending he was sick ….St Patrick struck him dead !!!! >>> Grandolfo was not present at this event', so he idea how this was done .Perhaps Hypnosis !!! I am now also learning that soon this Fr, Patrick was made a BISHOP. *SUDDENLY * *But all this aside In 2022 AD there was a Dramatic Change ….How many have heard of * *St. Brigid, Ireland’s Only Woman Patron Saint* I was not aware of this ABBESS *Thanks to Lisa Bitel, The Conversation <https://theconversation.com/st-brigid-the-compassionate-sensible-female-patron-saint-of-ireland-gets-a-lot-less-recognition-than-st-patrick-176659?xid=PS_smithsonian> who wrote the article on *March 15, 2022 I know of several Goans called Bridget ….Unlike St Patrick (born in England) she was born in Ireland St Bridget born sometime around 450 C.E. was the child of an enslaved woman and a king in the province of Leinster. Bridget became a Nun and the Abbess. Her wealth was used to build a church which is now in ruins to In 2022, following a three-year campaign by the feminist organization Her story <https://www.herstory.ie/home>, the Irish government finally acknowledged Brigid’s importance <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/world/europe/ireland-church-female-saint-brigid.html> by declaring a new National Holiday <https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/dublin-to-host-st-brigid-s-day-events-celebrating-the-original-brigit-1.4789324#:%7E:text=Drawing%20inspiration%20from%20the%20Celtic,February%201st%2C%20with%20free%20admission.> on her *feast day of February 1.* A churchman named Cogitosus <https://www.dib.ie/biography/cogitosus-a1809> was the first to write <https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Vita_sanctae_Brigitae_(Cogitosus)> about her, in about 650 C.E., or approximately 200 years after her birth. Until now, Ireland counted her among its three official patrons, along with St. Patrick and St. Columcille, or Columba <https://www.irishpost.com/life-style/125140-2-125140>, but gave workers a day off only on St. Patrick’s Day. As an environmentalist I am really impressed by St Brigid. According to Cogitosus, >>>>.” She tamed both domestic and wild animals, which was handy when her cows went astray. she could also manipulate the landscape. *B)* Once, when her kinsmen were building a plank trackway through the bogs, Brigid moved a river to make it easier for them. *C) *Instead of battling wrongdoers, she found peaceful resolutions to violent situations. Once, for example, she deterred a band of bloodthirsty murderers by making it appear as if they had committed a killing that never even happened. Grandolfo thinks that ST BRIGID should be sent to Help leaders in Ukraine, Biden’s USA and Putins Russia. According to *Lisa Bitel* *Lisa *Brigid was a the sensible saint, compassionate saint >>>. *Lisa Bitel <https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003109> **studies the social, cultural, and religious history of medieval Europe. She has written four books about religion and/or gender in early medieval Europe, architecture, and saints, among other topics. She is currently researching a book on religious change and the supernatural in pre-modern Europe.* We do have smart researchers, like LISA BITEL on Planet Earth ….So forget Uncle on Mars and Aunties on Pluto !! Finally, especially addressed to FREDERICK NORONHA, who has his nose in GOA ...who is the Goan who recently occupied a hihe post in Eire ...he even visited Goa ??? Grandolfo In Makongo Juu Faint Links with Eire !!