A Late Gothic sculpture of Saint Sunniva from the
Austevoll altarpiece (c. 1520), now in Bergen Museum. We unashamedly celebrate and feel proud about our exceptional Christian heritage, writes Alexander O’Hara Recent proposals to designate Saint Brigid’s Day, February 1st, as a public holiday are to be welcomed. It needs to be made clear however that we are celebrating a remarkable Christian saint, not a pagan goddess. The romanticism linked to pagan…
