feminine Dymphne

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Origin:
irish (gaelic)
Name Root:
*damos > dam > damh
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This name derives from the Old Irish and Proto-Celtic “*damos > dam > damh,” meaning “young deer.” Saint Dymphna (Dympna, Dimpna) was the daughter of a pagan Irish king and his Christian wife in the 7th-century AD. Her father murdered her. The story of St. Dymphna was first recorded in the thirteenth century by a canon of the Church of St. Aubert at Cambrai, commissioned by the Bishop of Cambrai, Guy I (1238–1247 AD). The author expressly states that his writings were based upon a longstanding oral tradition and a strong history of inexplicable and miraculous healings of the mentally ill.

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