More on St. Ita, aka Deirdre

Yet another Irish saint who had one name when she was a layperson and another when she entered religious life. Anyway, this page on St. Brigid also includes an interesting quote from St. Ita: "True faith in God with purity of heart; simplicity of life with religion; generosity with charity." (Nice little triad, eh? You can tell she was a teacher.)

There's also an old poem, "Isucan", associated with the legend that she had a vision of holding the Baby Jesus. You get a lot of these POV poems in Irish stories; like a musical, it's all prose until suddenly it breaks into song.