Cill Dara
A Cill or Cell is a group of 19 devoted to the Goddess Brigid. They honor her as the Goddess of the Holy Flame and the Sacred Well. In the fashion of the Celts, each shift begins at sundown (local time) and continues till the next sun set.
Legend states the there was a Shrine located in Kildare during the 6th Century that was dedicated to the Christianized Brigid and in her sanctuary which no man was allowed to enter. There, a Eternal Sacred Flame was kept alight continuously until the Norman invasion of the 12th century when it was briefly extinguished. It was re-lit but eventually dowsed forever during the reign of the English king Henry the Eighth. The flame was said to have been tended by nineteen nuns although some versions claim it was nine. It was tended by them carefully for nineteen nights but on the twentieth it kept alight of its own accord.
Cill Dara seeks to gather woman who have had Brigid touch them and their Pathway to join together to rekindle and keep the flame going as it was of old in the true Spirit of Sisterhood.
Keywords~ Brigid, Brid, Brighid, Celtic Goddess, Flamekeeper, Kildare, Sisterhood, Sacred Flame, Fire, Priestess.
~Please note: Cill Dara is not affiliated with Ord Brighideach or Daughters of the Flame. We are a completely independent cell that is set up in much the same way that the other OB/DOF are.~
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