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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: St Brigid's Day (3 February)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 22:31:50 +1300
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BRIGID (Brigit, Bridget, Bride) OF IRELAND* (d.c.525), abbess of Kildare.
[*NTBCW Bridget (Birgitta) of Sweden (1303-1373)]
....
Historical facts about her are extremely rare; some scholars have even 
doubted her existence altogether; her Lives are mainly anecdotes and 
miracle stories, some of which are deeply rooted in Irish pagan folklore.
....
parents of humble origin, baptized by Patrick (c.390-461[?])
....
Her miracle stories portray her almost as a personification of compassion.
Some emphasize the theme of multiplication of food, either of butterto 
the poor; or of changing her bath-water into beer to satisfy the thirst 
of unexpected clerical visitors. Even her cows gave milk three times the 
same day to enable some bishops to have enough to drink.
....
But if there is much uncertainty about her life, there is none about the 
extension of her cult, especially in Ireland and in churches of Irish 
origin on the Continent, where it was second only to that of Patrick.
....
Brigid is patron of poets, blacksmiths and healers. Her most usual 
iconographical attribute is a cow lying at her feet, which recalls her 
phase as a nun-cowgirl.

- D.H.Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (2nd ed, 1987).

small cow here

https://brigidine.org.au/about-us/our-patroness/the-icon-of-saint-brigid/

bigger cow here (scroll way down)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigid_of_Kildare

....neither cow actually "lying at her feet"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Brigid%27s_Day

aka "Imbolc"