Saint Bridget

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God does not care for your physical beauty when you have consecrated your heart to him, as he is the only one you have chosen to ever love. Saint Bridget arrived in Ireland only but an exiguous amount of years after Saint Patrick. As Bridget evolved and her number in age grew, she became more holy and pious. At an exaggeratingly young age, Bridget promised to consecrate herself to God. Bridget exemplified her grace and holiness by caring for the poor. She gave the poor food and clothing regularly often thought of these acts as acts that were charitable enough to be holy. Time gave her a fate not to her liking because as she aged, she grew more beauteous and possessed an angelical demeanor. Her father, an Irish lord pertaining the name Duptace, …show more content…
Judging by the amount of men fawning over her with bellicose manners overcoming them, Bridget began to surmise that the multiple attractions of her facial countenance was nothing but beguiling to every suitable groom. Bridget's assumption then became her conjecture as she found many facts that pointed her assumption as the truth.
Wishing to maintain her status of consecration and adulation to God, she found the only possible escape from her fate, imposed by her father, that Bridget could envisage being valid enough to be applicable to her situation. Bridget prayed to God and begged him to relieve her of her situation by removing her beauty. God did as she asked and Bridget's father deemed her unfit to be married off, as she was a young and hardly appealing woman at that point in her
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She had the courage to defy her father's wishes in order to be fully consecrated to God, which I admire. I respect the fact that she asked God to help her in her time of need to remove one of the greatest gifts God could give. Though God may have been offended by her request, it worked, and Bridget was enabled to be the person and nun that she wanted to be. Bridget showed courage and faith by peacefully standing up to her father and completely and utterly avoiding what he wanted for her and himself. Bridget never had the wit to realize that her father was marrying her off for money and a large bonanza, at that. I feel that it was a coincidental omen that Bridget was freed from under her father's commands and wishes dominating over