The merry order of St. Bridget. Personal recollections of the use of the rod (1857)
Author: Bertram, James Glass, 1824-1892
Subject: Flagellation

I found above by googling variations of St Brigid - this seems to be one of those Victorian erotic flagellation works like "Walter's" My Secret Life, Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs &c — not quite clear if purely fiction or fact-based. Anyone any idea how the name of St Bridget became used for such an organisation or in such a context. She wasn't a member of a flagellant order or any such thing, was she? It seems most odd - not to say, kinky!