Three Loaves of Bread

This is lovely.

4 Then eight other virgins also received

the veil together with saint Brigit and the

virgins with their parents said, 'Don't leave

us. Instead stay with us and make your

home in these parts.'

5 Thereafter saint Brigit stayed with them.

 One day there came to Brigit

and her nuns three devout men who were

pilgrims and she regaled them with bread

and cooked bacon. The men ate the bread

but hid the three portions of bacon as they

did not want to eat it.

2 The following day Brigit greeted them

and said, 'See how much bread you have

left over!' When they looked they saw that

the three portions of bacon were three

loaves of bread.

From "Vita Prima Sanctae Brigitae Background and Historical Value", by Sean Connolly. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 119 (1989), pp. 5-49.

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