The year 2024 marks the 1500th anniversary of the death of Brigit of Kildare, a figure who fascinates and inspires countless people to the present day.
A one-day conference on Saturday 26th October from 9.45am-5pm at Glenstal Abbey will explore her legacy and that of other Women of God through archaeology, history and folklore. It also celebrates the memory of the great Glenstal Brigit scholar and Celticist, An tAthair Seán Ó Duinn OSB.
Talks include:
For more information and for bookings please telephone 061 621005 or email events@glenstal.com
Glenstal Abbey is home to a community of Benedictine monks in County Limerick, Ireland, and is a place of prayer, work, education and hospitality. The monastery sits alongside a popular guesthouse and a boarding school for boys, housed within a 19th century Normanesque castle amidst five hundred magnificent acres of farmland, forest, lakes and streams. more