Dymphna was born in Ireland sometime in the seventh century to a pagan father and devout Christian mother. When she was fourteen, she consecrated herself to ...

Dymphna was the only child of a pagan king who is believed to have ruled a section of Ireland in the 7th century. She was the very picture of her attractive ...

The story of Dymphna was first recorded in the 13th century by a canon of the Church of Aubert of Avranches at Cambrai, France. It was commissioned by Guiard ...

17 сент. 2024 г. · Saint Dymphna was an Irish virgin martyr who is revered as the patron saint of people with mental disorders and epilepsy and victims of ...

St. Dymphna was a seventh century Irish virgin martyr. She was 15 (in about 620) when she lost her life spurning the incestuous advances of her father.

30 мая 2024 г. · What can this seventh-century virgin martyr teach us about responding to mental health problems in a Christlike way today?

Dymphna is the patron saint of the mentally ill, victims of incest ... Based on these miracles and the story of her martyrdom, she was canonized in 1247.

15 мая 2024 г. · Born in Ireland in the 7th century, tradition has it that Dymphna was the daughter of a pagan king and a devout Christian mother. After her ...

Born during the 7th century to Irish royalty, St. Dymphna's mother, the queen, had the girl baptized and raised in the faith in secret because of her husband's ...

St. Dymphna was born in the 7th century, when Ireland was almost universally Catholic. Yet, strange to say, her father, a petty king of Oriel, was still a ...