Like crop circles spotted in farmers’ fields, the massive Celtic cross shape spotted by passengers flying over Donegal set the internet abuzz back in 2016. The cross is now known as the Emmery ...

St. Brigid has given Ireland one of its most iconic religious and cultural images — the cross that carries her name.

is remembered by most Irish people as a Christian ritual. The spiral of the Brighid cross invokes the North Star and the pattern that the Big Dipper makes in the sky over the course of a year.

Eden Prairie High School boys cross-country coaches warned their charges prior to last Friday’s Rosemount Irish Invitational: “A two-mile race is different than a 5K,” they said.