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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Dymphna
		Dymphna -- the daughter of a pagan king of Ireland -- became a Christian and was secretly baptized.
		Dymphna is depicted with a sword in her hand and a fettered
		Dymphna in Gheel was destroyed by fire in 1489.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05221b.htm (511 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Saint Dymphna (also: Dympna, Dimpna) is traditionally held to be the daughter of a pagan Irish chief and his Christian wife in the 7th century.
		The body of St. Dymphna is held in a silver reliquary in the Gheel church named in her honor, although the original church burnt down in the 15th century.
		Her feast day is May 15 and she is the patron saint of families, insanity and mental illness professionals as well as incest victims, epileptics, runaways, and those suffering from mental illness.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Saint_Dymphna (509 words)

	Saint Dymphna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dymphna is traditionally held to be the daughter of a pagan Irish chief and his Christian wife in the 7th century.
		The body of St. Dymphna is held in a silver reliquary in the Gheel church named in her honor, although the original church burnt down in the 15th century.
		Her feast day is May 15 and she is the patron saint of insanity and mental illness professionals as well as incest victims, epileptics, runaways, and those suffering from mental illness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Dymphna (431 words)

	Saint Dymphna -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dymphna is traditionally held to be the daughter of a pagan Irish chief and his Christian wife in the (additional info and facts about 7th century) 7th century.
		The body of St. Dymphna is held in a silver reliquary in the Gheel church named in her honor, although the original church burnt down in the (additional info and facts about 15th century) 15th century.
		Her feast day is the May 15 and she is the (A saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation) patron saint of insanity and mental illness professionals.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/saint_dymphna.htm (485 words)

	The History of St. Dymphna, Patron Ssint of Mental and Nervous Disorders \| Catholic Saint
		Dymphna was, like her mother, a paragon of beauty, and a most sweet and winning child, the "jewel" of her home.
		Dymphna was early placed under the care and tutelage of a pious Christian woman, who prepared her for baptism, which was conferred by the saintly priest Father Gerebran.
		Dymphna, as may be expected, was greatly horrified at the suggestion, and asked for a period of forty days to consider the proposal.
	www.natlshrinestdymphna.org /history.php (1391 words)

	The Neighborhood of God: Dymphna, Patron Saint of the Insane
		Saint Dymphna’s situation was familiar: her "vocation" was not what she chose but rather what was forced upon her by circumstance.
		Dymphna was born in the 7th century (a contemporary of Mohammed, though as far from Allah’s servant as one can be and still exist on the same planet).
		Obviously, Saint Dymphna of Ireland, lately of Gheel, is one of the patron saints of abused children and of the mentally ill, of which she can be numbered among the former and her father among the latter.
	neighborhoodofgod.blogspot.com /2005/10/dymphna-patron-saint-of-insane.html (3312 words)

	Saint Kevin
		Another story is told of a hunted wild boar which sought refuge in the saints' cave and survived due to the hunting dogs' refusal to enter the cave.
		Another story tells of a time when the saint was in kneeling in prayer on the banks of a lake, when his Psalm prayer book fell in the water.
		Saint Kevin's presence is undoubtedly alive and felt after more than fourteen centuries of his passage into the Divine Kingdom.
	www.deaconlaz.org /saint_kevin.htm (1186 words)

	Saint Michael Center - Saints
		Saint Joseph, the virginal spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who guarded and protected her in her Divine Maternity, is, as a member of the Holy Family, one of a trinity in Heaven which every Christian heart must turn to in veneration and prayer.
		Saint James (James the Less), brother of Saint Simon and Saint Jude, and the fist Bishop of Jerusalem, was thrown from the top of the Temple of Jerusalem by the Jews, and then clubbed to death in the street.
		Saint Bede was educated by a saint, Saint Benedict Biscop, and was ordained by a saint, Saint John of Beverley.
	www.smcenter.org /events_saints_May04.htm (4933 words)

	Vertical: Saint Dymphna of Gheel
		Dymphna’s father found them in a number of months, and Dmyphna’s father’s men put the priest and two companions to death, whereas Dymphna was beheaded by her own father because she refused to return with him to his lands.
		Saint Dymphna is the patron saint of epileptics and those suffering from mental illness.
		Her relics are reported to cure insanity and epilepsy.When the old church of Saint Dymphna in Gheel was destroyed by fire in 1489 it was replaced by a new church which was consecrated in 1532.
	www.geocities.com /kd3qc/saintdymphna.html (415 words)

	NYC Voices: Saint Dymphna: Patron Saint Of The Mentally Ill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dymphna’s father found them in a number of months, and his men put the priest and two companions to death, whereas Dymphna was beheaded by her own father because she refused to return with him to his lands.
		Saint Dymphna is the patron saint of epileptics and those suffering from mental illness.
		When the old church of Saint Dymphna in Gheel was destroyed by fire in 1489 it was replaced by a new church, which was consecrated in 1532.
	www.newyorkcityvoices.org /apr0102.html (424 words)

	Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profile: Saint Dymphna
		Saint Dymphna was the daughter of an pagan Irish chieftain and a Christian mother.
		Saint Dymphna faced mental illness in a horrifying form, and remained faithful to her beliefs, her purity and her love for Christ.
		Saint Dymphna is another of those saints whose veneration seems to have preceeded her biography, so it is difficult to determine the actual facts of her life and martyrdom.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19980501/SAINTS/STDYMPHN.HTM (947 words)

	Apple Sanity, Sunshine Ecstasy - Saint Dymphna of Gheel, Our Patron
		The history of Saint Dymphna was collected by Pierre as 'Vita' canon of the church of Saint Aubert at Cambrai, via the oral tradition of the town of Gheel of the province of Antwerp, in Belgium, where she was venerated and had a cult dovotion.
		Saint Dymphna was the daughter of a extraordinarily beautiful Christian princess and a pagan cheiftain of Ireland named Damon and a beautiful Christian princess.
		The body of Saint Dymphna was buried in a church in Gheel, Saint Gerebernus' bones were moved to Sonsbeck in the diocese of Münster.
	www.applesanity.com /dymphna (1439 words)

	Saints of June 13
		In art, Saint Antony is portrayed as a young Franciscan holding the child Jesus, which is a representation of an episode in which his spying host is said to seen him holding and talking to the Infant Jesus (White).
		Saint Damhnade was an Irish virgin, venerated in Cavan and Fermanagh.
		Saint Fandilas was a priest and the abbot of the monastery of Peñamelaria near Cordova, where he was beheaded by order of the Moorish emir (Benedictines, Encyclopedia).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0613.htm (2159 words)

	The Saints
		However, keep in mind that asking the saints to pray for us is no different than asking a friend or relative to pray for us.
		The saints have a special "in" with God by virtue of having made it to God's kingdom in Heaven.
		O God, you chose to glorify Saint Clare of the Cross, fixing in her life and on her heart the signs of Our Lord’s passion, so that she might be a model of faith and an example of love.
	www.pornnomore.com /saints.htm (312 words)

	Prayers to St. Dymphna
		Lord Jesus Christ, You have willed that St. Dymphna should be invoked by thousands of clients as the patroness of nervous and mental disease and have brought it about that her interest in these patients should be an inspiration to and an ideal of charity throughout the world.
		Dymphna, we live at a time when many are intent on satisfying every carnal appetite.
		Admirable St. Dymphna, how just you were to all whom you encountered, and how careful you were to give every person his due, and more than he might desire or expect.
	www.2heartsnetwork.org /Dymphna.htm (1661 words)

	Orion > The Gallery > Jacquelyn McBain - Donald Kuspit
		The animals of this world, she posits, are ready to destroy the saints who, helpless and vulnerable, are unable to defend themselves, unable to move, to flee.
		Male saints who repudiated their sexuality, such as Saint Benedict, and others such as Saint Herbert and Saint Hubert, who were hangers-on at royal courts, servants of secular authority, all realized that there was a higher, more benign power.
		All the saints endured much suffering for their faith, which carried with it the conviction that goodness would triumph over evil, whatever form that evil might take.
	www.orionsociety.org /pages/oo/gallery/index_McBain.html (597 words)

	McNichols Icons: St. Dymphna
		One of the reasons that saints like Gemma, Benedict Joseph Labre and Dymphna are so popular today is that there is a great escalation of mental suffering today as we all try unsuccessfully to make sense out of utter the confusion and madness and violence that we are asked to live in.
		Saint Dymphna was born in the seventh century.
		Dymphna received the crown of martyrdom in defense of her purity about the year 620.
	puffin.creighton.edu /jesuit/andre/dymphna.html (616 words)

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		Dymphna was the daughter of an Irish king, a pagan.
		Against her father's wishes, and unbeknownst to him, Dymphna became a Christian and was baptized.
		Barbara Walker, in "The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets," claims the legend of Saint Dymphna was inspired by a bit of grafitti on an unearthed brick found near Antwerp in the 13th century.
	www.jesus21.com /poppydixon/mental/saint_dymphna.html (579 words)

	Saint Dymphna - The Journey ... - by Catholics Around the World
		Under Bishop Guy I of Cambrai (1238-47), Pierre, a canon of the church of Saint Aubert at Cambrai, wrote a "Vita" of the saint, from which we learn that she had been venerated for many years in a church at Gheel (province of Antwerp, Belgium), which was devoted to her.
		According to the narrative, Dymphna -- the daughter of a pagan king of Ireland -- became a Christian and was secretly baptized.
		The body of St. Dymphna was buried in the church of Gheel, and the bones of St. Gerebernus were transferred to Kanten.
	my.opera.com /catholics/blog/2007/03/22/saint-dymphna (701 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Search Results Books: Saint_Dymphna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I spoke to Saint Dymphna, the patron saint of the mentally ill, who was beheaded and canonized at the age...
		Dymphna was the Belgian girl who became the patron saint of mental patients...
		Or sometimes she was Saint Dymphna, who had a father who wanted to do wrong with her but she...
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/external-search?mode=books&keyword=Saint_Dymphna&tag=websitedesi09-21 (669 words)

	St. Dymphna :: St. Dymphna Reliquary
		Legend says that Dymphna was born in the mid-seventh century to a pagan Irish king and a Christian mother who died giving birth to her.
		Dymphna was venerated and became the patron saint of those suffering from nervous and mental afflictions.
		The St. Dymphna medal is sewn to a pillow of sheer blue fabric covering a scrap of lace, and surrounded by silver paper and four blue crystals.
	karenswhimsy.com /reliquaries/st-dymphna (461 words)

	Beliefnet.com
		St. Dymphna, patron saint of the mentally ill, we humbly implore your powerful intercession with Jesus and Mary, the Health of the Sick.
		Saint Dymphna, patron saint of the nervous and mentally ill, give us strength and courage in fighting the darkness and despair of mental illness, stigma, and isolation.
		Saint Dymphna, through the love of Christ, heal patients battling depression, mood disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and psychosis.
	www.beliefnet.com /prayer/commemoration.asp?milestoneTypeID=6&milestoneID=60736 (206 words)

	25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The life of St. Dymphna was written by a priest in the middle of the 13th century.
		St. Dymphna was born in Ireland at the end of the 6th century.
		The saint always was invoked as the patroness of the mentally ill. Between the years 1604 and 1668 the Bollandists (a group of Jesuits in Belgium who write authoritative lives of the saints) published numerous accounts of cures through her intercession.
	www.monksofadoration.org /25.html (561 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of May 15
		Sometimes she may be shown (1) kneeling before her confessor, Saint Gerebernus, (2) kneeling at Mass while her father murders the priest Gerebernus (Roeder), (3) praying in a cloud surrounded by a group of lunatics bound with golden chains, or (4) being beheaded by the king (White).
		Saint Dympna, whom he had baptized in her infancy, to Belgium and shared in her martyrdom at Gheel.
		Saint Simplicius was martyred in Sardinia by being buried alive during the reign of Diocletian (Benedictines).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0515.htm (3780 words)

	St. Dymphna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dymphna, with St. Ocrebran, her confessor and two other friends ran away.
		Dymphna was made a martyr in defense of her purity about the year 620.
		Dymphna, patroness of those afflicted with mental and emotional illness.
	www.ainglkiss.com /saints/dym.htm (211 words)

	Saint Anne Mother of Mary Catholic Gift and Goods
		Saint Anne was the mother of Our Lady, Mary and the grandmother of Jesus Christ.
		Not much is known about Saint Anne but the most important thing to know is that she was a chosen one.
		The Chaplet of Good Saint Anne originates in 1875 and is the pious invention of a devout client of our saint.
	www.griffithsprayerchaplets.com /saintannesp.html (488 words)

	Saint Dymphna - Patroness of Rape Victims, Nervous, Emotionally Disturbed, Mentally Ill
		Dymphna, who abandoned the court of thy father father to escape the danger of impurity, pray for us.
		Dymphna, who chose a life of poverty on earth so that thou might lay up treasures in Heaven, pray for us.
		Pray for us Saint Dymphna, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
	www.romanticlovesecrets.com /Saint-Dymphna.html (512 words)

	Bookreporter.com - LIVING WITH SAINTS by Mary O'Connell
		In "Saint Therese of Lisieux," a Catholic high school girl named Kendra conceals a horrible secret: her father is molesting her.
		While she's having sex with the predatory boss, Saint Anne (the patron saint of mothers) appears at the foot of her bed and tells her to stop debasing herself.
		The intercession of the saints is a vehicle for bringing moral guidance, a guidance no longer provided (it seems) by family, community, or church organizations.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0871138263.asp (712 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Cool Patron Saints
		A patron saint can be one who shares your name, one who is associated with your occupation, or one who champions a cause that is relevant and special to you.
		His reputation both as the saint of pawnbrokers and as the precursor to Santa Claus derives from one act of generosity to the desperate; he threw three bags of gold into a house, late at night, to save three girls from prostitution.
		So, not only is she the patron saint of alcoholics, she is the patron saint of those who have to put up with them.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A523405 (1407 words)

	Dymphna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		To avoid her father's wrath Dymphna fled with her confessor Gerebernus and with the court-fiddler and his wife. They crosed the sea and landed at Antwerp (Belgium).
		They invoked them as saints for the recovery of all sorts of diseases, but especially for the cure of insanity, because Dymphna was murdered by her father in a lunatic attack, which was the work of the devil.
		Because of the great concourse of "possessed" or "innocent" "pilgrims" it was necessary to lodge them in the houses of the citizens of Geel while awaiting their turn to be admitted into the "sickroom" for their novena.
	www.homestead.com /missionbell/Dymphna.html (533 words)

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