A Lake of Ale for God

Even if Brigid Didn't Pray This Prayer, It Captures Her Spirit Beautifully

In spiritual popular culture, there are prayers that get associated with certain saints or holy people, even though there’s no evidence that those prayers actually belong to the saint who gets the byline.

For example, a popular prayer that begins “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace…” is commonly attributed to St. Francis of Assisi but the actual au…