A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Briga (4)

by Agnes B. C. Dunbar

St. Briga (4), Jan. 7, was the sister of St. Brendan, the navigator. After his seven years’ voyage, he founded the monasteries of Clonfert and Annadown, and set his sister over the latter, and there, in 577, he died in her arms, at the age of ninety-four. Smith and Wace. This Briga is thought to be the same as St. Breaca, who settled in Cornwall, but it does not seem very likely that, when her brother had died at ninety-four, she could have been young enough to start on a missionary tour to another country.