The Brigid Light is still guarded and tended in Solas Bhride as it was in Kildare many centuries ago by the Sisters of St Brigid. This flame was lit from the flame tended by the Brigidine Sisters in Solas Bhride. President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, presided at the lighting of the Perpetual Flame in the Town Square on St. Kildare County Council commissioned a sculpture to house the flame in Kildare Town Square in 2005. In 1993 the flame was re-lit in the Market Square, Kildare, by Sr. Mary Teresa Cullen, then congregational leader of the Brigidine Sisters. The sacred flame survived possibly up to the suppression of the monasteries in the sixteenth century. On the 20th day, Brigid tended it herself. This video describes the partnership between the Sun Lodge Village and Peguis Child and Family Services in Peguis First Nation, Manitoba. In Brigid’s time, the number of her nuns who tended the flame was nineteen. Rekindling the sacred fire for children and families.
For her and her nuns the fire represented the new light of Christianity, which reached Irish shores early in the fifth century. When Brigid built her monastery and church in Kildare she continued the custom of keeping the fire alight. Scholars suggest that priestesses used to gather on the hill of Kildare to tend their ritual fires while invoking a goddess named Brigid to protect their herds and to provide a fruitful harvest. A sacred fire burned in Kildare reaching back into pre-Christian times.
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