This brass version of St. Brigid's cross is a prized "souvenir" from one of my trips to Ireland. This cross is also a favorite of the key character in Father Andrew Greeley's stories, Bishop Blackie Ryan.THE CROSS
Brigid wove a cross of rushes by a dying chieftain's bed." "Brigid, what is that you're making from the rushes there?", he said. Brigid said, "A cross I'm weaving, like the cross where Jesus died." "Who was Jesus?" asked the chieftain; "Why was this man crucified?" Brigid told the gospel story to a dying pagan King. Lying silently he listened, never saying anything. Then he kissed the cross of rushes saying ,"Brigid, thanks to you, I have come to love this Jesus; I will follow his way too!"
By Emma Finnegan
Brigid wove a cross of rushes by a dying chieftain's bed." "Brigid, what is that you're making from the rushes there?", he said. Brigid said, "A cross I'm weaving, like the cross where Jesus died." "Who was Jesus?" asked the chieftain; "Why was this man crucified?" Brigid told the gospel story to a dying pagan King. Lying silently he listened, never saying anything. Then he kissed the cross of rushes saying ,"Brigid, thanks to you, I have come to love this Jesus; I will follow his way too!"
By Emma Finnegan
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