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St. Dymphna — The Saint Killed by Her Father Who Still Heals Geel
Her own father hunted her down and killed her himself. Centuries later, that same tragedy helped build one of the earliest known models of community mental health care in the world.
In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast telling real saint stories in plain, everyday language, we tell the true story of St. Dymphna — a young Irish princess martyred by her own father after fleeing to the town of Geel, in what's now Belgium. We separate fact from centuries of pious legend with a round of True or Legend?, then trace how Geel, long before the wider Church ever made her sainthood…
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