A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Brigid (5–11)
St. Brigid (5–11). Colgan, in his History of the Irish Saints, speaks of twenty-five Brigids, some of whom are distinguishable from each other, and some are not. No one but a Celtic scholar and antiquary could attempt to disentangle them all, or form an opinion as to how many Brigids there were, or which is a duplicate of which. I take these seven—who are possibly reducible to four—from Bishop Forbes’ article “Brigida,” in Smith and Wace’s Diet.