Usually
known as "Bride's Cross," this equal-armed cross
is traditionally woven from straw in honor of Ireland's Saint Bridget (Also
known as: Bride, Brighid, Brigid) on her holiday, Candlemas, observed on
the second of February. There is a very strong likelihood that there never
was such a personage as St. Bridget, and that she may have been a cover
for worship of the Celtic Goddess of the same name. The cross itself is
a type of solar cross, and both the symbol and the woven representation
probably predate Christianity in Ireland.
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