A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Brigid (4)

by Agnes B. C. Dunbar

St. Brigid (4) of Benchor, whose head, in 1225, was brought from Scotland or Ireland to Denis, king of Portugal, and kept at Lumiar with great veneration, is said to have founded a great monastery at Benchor. This may have been Banchory in Scotland, or Bangor in Wales, or some place in Ireland. Bollandus could not identify her with either of the well-known SS. Brigid. Perhaps she is St. Brigid of Abernethy.