Books about Kildare from Amazon.com

A guide for children and families to the life and celebration of St. Brigid of Kildare (Ireland). Her feast day is Feb.1

Only traditional crafts, customs, rituals recipes and celebrations are included. Instructions for making and celebrating with the St. Brigid's cross are provided.

An essential guide for remembering and celebrating this important Irish Saint..
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The family research guide with real life extracts, including maps, over 40 illustrations, family history notes and coats of arms, a 17th century census and more for County Kildare, Co. Wicklow and Co. Carlow in Ireland A boon to genealogy research and organization for these counties, neatly bound so that pages easily lay flat. From the archives of the Irish Genealogical Foundation. Part of the 32 county set on Irish Families..
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Twenty-seven years in the making, The Gardens of the Vatican is a private photographic tour of eight centuries of 'green thoughts in a green shade'. The several gardens in the Vatican territory reflect the history of gardens in general. In addition to the Persian-influenced quadrant gardens of the Teuton Cemetery and the Secret garden, adorned with lemon-trees in pots, there are gardens in the Italian, French and English styles. The book is rich in anecdote and detail: Pope John XXIII liked to ramble along the pathways and chat with the gardeners. His predecessor Pius XII wanted solitude, so the gardeners were obliged to hide. There is a fragment of the Berlin Wall, a Chinese pavilion given by the Catholics of that country, and a gnarled old olive tree transplanted from Gethsemane in the Holy Land. The Gardens of the Vatican offers a fascinating and inspiring glimpse of a bachelor's refuge, through eight centuries of history..
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Lisa Bitel uses the history of two unique holy women--Genovefa of Paris (ca. 420-509) and Brigit of Kildare (ca.452-524)--their churches and cults, and the many generations of their devotees to reveal how ordinary Europeans lived through Christianization at the dawn of the Middle Ages.
Within about fifty years, and at a time when women had only recently been barred from leadership of Christian communities, one of these saints built churches within the bounds of the world's greatest empire, while the other was inspired by dreams of that fading empire to build Christian cities on the barbarian frontier. Each became a translator of cultures, bringing romanitas (Roman-ness) to her homeland and attracting vast numbers of converts to Christianity. Bitel uses both written and material remains to recreate the cities where Genovefa and Brigit lived and worked, the roads they traveled, and the places where Christians and pagans worshipped. Following the trail of these two saints, she plots the course of Christianization across northern Europe, showing how both people and places became Christian. Most converts did not have a sudden epiphany, Bitel argues. Instead they learned and lived their new religion in continuous conversation with preachers, saints, rulers, and neighbors. Together, they built their faith over many years, brick by brick, into their churches and shrines, cemeteries, houses, and even their markets and farms. Today, the stone fragments of their churches and the archaeological rubbish of fields where saints Genovefa and Brigit once walked reveal what the written words of medieval missionaries and theologians cannot: the active participation of converts in the history of their own religious conversion.
Drawing on disciplines as diverse as history, landscape history, religion, architecture, archaeology, and Celtic studies, this penetrating study not only tells the engaging story of two legendary women, but also illuminates the pervasive influence of gender, ethnicity, and landscape on the complex process of religious conversion..
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