Saint Brigid

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week's episode is on the 5th-century Irish abbess Saint Brigid. Join us to hear about a miraculous abortion, powerful women in the Catholic Church, and a flying priest. Transcript available here Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. [Image: stained glass window of St Brigid holding a lamp]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:03.9	and throughout time. I'm Irene. I'm Alice. And I'm Eli. And today we're going to be talking about
0:08.9	St Brigid, one of the two patron saints of Catholic Island and an iconic figure for queer Catholic
0:13.7	women in Ireland. Before we start, I'd like to acknowledge that we're recording this podcast on the land of the warundry-wo-warang people of the Kulin Nation.
0:29.6	We offer our respect to their elders past and present, and acknowledge them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:37.0	I don't have many content mornings for this episode.
0:40.3	There's a brief mention of self-inflicted eye trauma in a kind of mythological context.
0:45.4	Alrighty.
0:45.9	That's a new one.
0:47.1	A brief mention of slavery, some non-explicit discussions of sex and abortion.
0:51.9	It also includes mentions of religiously motivated self-harm, including eye trauma and burning.
0:57.7	None of it's particularly detailed, but if you want to avoid any of that, you can move along now.
1:02.0	I'm going to start by confessing to you, as with almost all medieval saints, that we don't
1:06.7	really have any written primary sources about St. Bridget's life.
1:10.0	Confession seems a good way to start up by a Catholic episode.
1:12.6	Yeah, that's true.
1:13.8	I don't really know why I'm allowed to be here.
1:16.1	I don't know anything about this.
1:17.4	I'm just like, ha-ha, I know that thing.
1:19.5	I feel like we need both flavors of people here.
1:21.8	Like, definitely it would be wrong if me and Alice just had an Irish Catholic episode together.
1:26.6	Uh-huh, okay. Because there are listeners we have who don't know anything about Ireland or Catholics.
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