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1. Although some modern historians claim that the Flame of St. Brigid had its roots in Nestorian Christianity, this is not the case. St. Brigid was, in fact, a Christianized version of the Irish hearth goddess, Brigid, whose symbol was the burning of a fire. This fire was kept as a shrine and, when the Christians came, the shrine became a monastery.

In OTL the flame was extinguished in the sixteenth century by the Protestant followers of King Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

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