Brigid died at Kildare, the double monastery which she had founded, about the year 525. Her legend abounds in miraculous happenings most of which tend to show her charity, her compassion and her sense of justice. She was affectionately and rather extravagantly known in earlier times as “Mary of Gael”. Some confusion existed between Saint Brigid and the Celtic goddess Brig, particularly in connection with the fire-cult linked with this day in pagan tradition. We do not know the precise explanation for this, but tradition died hard in ancient Ireland. The Life of Brigid was written by Cogitosus in the seventh century.