Saint Dymphna
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Dymphna is a saint honoured in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. According to tradition, she lived in the 7th century and was martyred by her father.
The beheading of Saint Dymphna by Godfried Maes
St Dymphna by Harry Clarke, with mad figures hiding in her cloak.
St. Dymphna Church, Geel, Belgium
Jacques de l'Ange, Martyrdom of Saint Dymphna and Saint Gerebernus (1603-1651)
Christian martyr
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In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. In the years of the early church, stories depict this often occurring through death by sawing, sto
Saint Dymphna
…also Damhnait or Davnet) is a saint honoured in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. According to tradition, she lived in the 7th century and was martyred by her father. The life of Dymphna was first recorded in the 13th century by a canon of the Church of Aubert of Avranches at Cambrai, France. It was…
The stoning to death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, in a painting by the 16th-century Spanish artist Juan Correa de Vivar
The Massacre of the Innocents (detail) by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1515), National Museum in Warsaw
The Martyrdom of San Acacio (Acacius, Agathus, Agathius). From Triptych. Museo del Prado
The martyrs Maximus and Theodotus of Adrianopolis, c. 985