Category: Context
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Blessed Equinox.
Blessed equinox. Another lovely potluck with @baltimorereclaiming ✨ Great stories, music, art and eats (and fun with portmanteaus)!
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Relics of St Valentine
I recently visited the shrine and relics of St Valentine at Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin. The reliquary, containing bits of blood-tinged bone was uncovered during one of the many church/monastery reconstructions above the saint’s grave and was gifted to Irish Carmelite, John Spratt by Pope Gregory XVI in 1835.…
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Feast Day of Saint Gobnait
Bringing Saint Gobnait resistance energy on this day and moving into the rest of the year! “[A] poor widow, who was unable to pay her rent, had her sole wealth, a few cows, whose milk she sold, seized by bailiffs, and in her distress, invoked assistance of St Gobnait, whose…
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Lúnasa faction fest and a little lore.
So much gratitude for Lúnasa Faction Fest with @bmorebata this weekend 🦊 The shillelagh as a fighting stick performs the function of personal and community defence in close combat. The context of such measures has changed over time and space, while retaining the exegetical legacies of each period, including mythic representations, pre-Christian…
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Calling all geeks and nerds.
Repost from @bmorebata 🦊 Calling all geeks and nerds!Community Geekouts are back!! And we’ve got some major offerings for Lúnasa: 🐰🎓a profile on another one of our animal mentors (Ithink you can guess which one) with @bridgingappalachia 🫒🍁an epic intro to three different tree families withwith a shared trait and entwined histories with @brighidthebard,…
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St Patrick: Patriarchal Disruptor of Early “Irish” Cosmology
“Máire Mac Néill has demonstrated that in much of oral tradition and local practice, Lugh has given way to Patrick, greatest hero of the Irish Christian pantheon. It seems likely then that the comparison between Brigid and Patrick that is made in so many sayings and anecdotes may derive from…
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Story As Medicine: Leigheas Scéal
“Trauma, illness and grief create frightening forests of pain, with unfamiliar roads…listening to stories suggests myriad pathways out of dark forests” (Sunwolf 2005, 3).
Bridging Appalachia 