Brigid Hull
The Lumen Christi Award
May 17, 2025
Lumen Christi is Latin for Light of Christ. The Lumen Christi Award is the highest award that Saint Mary’s College confers upon an undergraduate student. It is presented each year to a member of the senior class who is an outstanding person of faith, someone who has excelled in leadership, and who has had a deep and profound effect on the Saint Mary’s community.
This year’s recipient is an exemplary leader whose service and impact is firmly rooted in a mature faith. Her communion with God compels her to seek communion with others. As someone with a natural curiosity for hearing people’s stories, she genuinely desires to encounter others and celebrate what makes them unique, doing so with a welcoming posture that puts others at ease. During times of change, crisis, and polarization, she consistently listens and accompanies her peers with great care and compassion, making her a trusted leader for students of diverse political and religious backgrounds. She is a true bridge builder who has a deep appreciation for the tensions that exist between the ideals of faith and lived realities, and she takes an active role in reaching out in care and solidarity.
Our recipient brought this consistent presence to leadership in a variety of roles, including Ministry Assistant, Mass Coordinator, Embody Intern, and Liturgy and Music Intern. Her faith commitments also led her to pursue leading through action and justice: she has been a regular volunteer at Our Lady of the Road Catholic Worker , took on an Environmental Studies minor, interned over the summer with Habitat for Humanity, and over spring break this year co-led our Spes Service Experience: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor to Ossining, New York.
Her gentle, steady leadership draws out the best in others, fosters the common good, and keeps everyone focused on the bigger goal. People enjoy working with her and being led by her. She has that hard-to-find leadership quality of someone who lives in her own integrity, is well-rounded in a life of faith and justice, and happily lifts up and supports the work of others in their own leadership.
One nominator said: “she has allowed Christ's love and light to deeply transform her spirit, and it radiates from her in everything she does. Ministry and meaningful impact arise when a person’s heart is touched by Christ’s love, and that transformation compels them to live in a way that mirrors the example of Jesus. This is Brigid.”
It is an honor and pleasure to acknowledge Brigid Hull to be a Light of Christ and to bestow on her the 2025 Lumen Christi Award.