Daily Medieval

Legend says that St. Patrick arrived in Ardagh c.434 and created a Christian settlement over which he put his nephew, Mel of Ardagh , in cha...

St. Patrick had sisters. One of them was discussed yesterday, Derarca , called the "mother of saints" because she had so many chil...

Whether Brigid of Kildare was an early Irish saint or a pre-Christian goddess , her legend says that her mother was a slave baptized by St....

It is not unusual for Christian symbols of the cross to have variation. We all recognize the two straight lines perpendicular to each other,...

When the King of Leinster, Crimthann Mac Énnai (died 483) told his vassal Dubhthach to free a young girl from slavery, he knew she was spec...