{"id":3543,"date":"2009-12-12T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:03:15","slug":"brigids-birthday-today-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3543","title":{"rendered":"Brigid&#8217;s birthday today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tim&#8217;s birthday <a href=\"about:blank\"><font color=\"#800080\">Tim turns 13<\/font><\/a>&nbsp;was three days ago &#8211; December the 9th &#8211; which also happens to be the feast of St. Juan Diego. Juan Diego (you will recall) was the Mexican&nbsp;Indian who in 1531 had the BVM (Blessed Virgin Mary) appear to him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, that appearance has led to the cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and her feast is celebrated today, December 12th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same as Brigid&#8217;s birthday! Is there a message there? Picture below <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">is not<\/span> Brigid &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e2012876490d31970c-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e2012876490d31970c-320wi.jpg 320w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e2012876490d31970c-320wi-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Brigid &#8211; all 106 pounds of her &#8211;&nbsp;as she dropped me off for my Appalachian Trail overnighter, the day after Thanksgiving <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e20120a74608ab970b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e20120a74608ab970b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e20120a74608ab970b-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more pictures of the life of Brigid, go here as&nbsp;we celebrated one of those landmark birthday&#8217;s a couple of years ago &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"about:blank\"><font color=\"#800080\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Brigid&#8217;s Birthday<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the link doesn&#8217;t work here&#8217;s the url &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2007\/12\/brigids-birthda.html\">http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2007\/12\/brigids-birthda.html<\/a><br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim&#8217;s birthday Tim turns 13&nbsp;was three days ago &#8211; December the 9th &#8211; which also happens to be the feast of St. Juan Diego. Juan Diego (you will recall) was the Mexican&nbsp;Indian who in 1531 had the BVM (Blessed Virgin Mary) appear to him. Now, that appearance has led to the cult of Our Lady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11457,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/11457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}