Starting at 10.30 a.m., a procession was held to escort the relic from its site in the Solas Bhride Centre in Tully to St. Brigid's Parish Church in Kildare town.

Leighlin Denis Nulty, the Bishop of Kildare, carried the relic into the church.

St. Brigid established her church in Kildare, according to Kildare Tourism Board chairman David Mongey, who also noted that "her legacy as a peace maker and a protector of nature is still as relevant today as ever."

Brigid is thought to have passed away in 524 AD and was interred next to the main altar of her monastic church in Kildare, which later attracted pilgrims from all over Europe and Ireland.

Around the year 800, the body of St. Brigid was carried to Downpatrick, County Down, in preparation for a Viking attack. There, she was interred in a cemetery next to St. Patrick and St. Columba.

Later on, the grave's location—which remained unmarked for security was forgotten.

After being lost for nearly 300 years, the burial site was found again, and in 1186, St. Brigid's body was enshrined.

According to legend, in the thirteenth century, Irish knights travelled to Lumiar, a small Portuguese town west of Lisbon, with a piece of her head's bone. In Lumiar's St. John the Baptist church, the relic is still revered.

Part of the Lumiar relic was acquired by the Brigidine Sisters in Tullow and returned to Ireland in the 1930s.

Today, the relic was brought back to Kildare town and will be kept on display within St. Brigid's Parish Church for eternity.