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October 10: ST. DYMPHNA: The Princess Who Ran
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St. Dymphna fled across the sea to protect her faith — and became the patron saint of those who suffer in their minds and hearts. An Irish princess whose father's grief turned into something frightening after her mother's death, Dymphna escaped with her confessor rather than give in to his demands, praying simply to stay faithful no matter the cost. She was martyred for her refusal, and the Belgian village where she died went on to become a place where families have welcomed the mentally ill into their own homes for centuries. "Lord, let me be fa...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast, where we know that every day is a feast day. It's October 10th, so join us for St. Dymfna, the princess who ran. Hypna pressed her forehead to the stone floor of St. Martin's Church in Gille. The building was cold and quiet.
She had been running for weeks. She and a priest had left Ireland by ship, landed on the coast of Belgium, and made their way inland, guided by nothing that she could point to, only a kind of holy instinct, a that she would know the place when she found it.
And when she saw the little church, she knew. Her hands trembled, but they did not tremble from the cold. She was young, barely a girl, and her father's men were somewhere behind her searching.
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