Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1915 — St, Bride of Ireland. [ARTICLE]

St, Bride of Ireland.

St Bride, the patroness of Ireland and of Fleet street, whose feast falls in February, was the beautiful daughter of a bard who became the religious disciple of St Patrick and abbesß of Kildare. The story of. St Bride, or Bridget bred the Celtic imagination, and in Ireland about twenty parishes bear the name of Kilbride. The spire of ber church in Fleet street has been twice struck by lightning and much reduced from the original height but is still one of the tallest steeples 1q London. It Is supposed to have been designed by Wren’s young daughter.— Pall Mall Gazette.