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Irlanda

title: GHEEL DIMPNA SAINT

subject date: 2010-10-07

caption: Santa DIMP of Gheel (VII century) Virgin and martyr, patron of mental infirmities. According to a legend, he was the daughter of a pagan king of Ireland who grew up Christianly from his mother and forced to flee to Flanders with his old confessor Gerebernus when she died, to escape the incestuous intentions of her father who, after obsessive insanity after having long traveled to find a woman who could match his deceased wife, when she returned home she saw her relive in her daughter. After long pursuing the fugitives, finally the maddened father found them again and unable to be right he bothed them both. At the place of burial, and around the relics, popular devotion has seen miraculous healing of mentally ill or possessed people; this has brought to the place an unusual affluence of mentally ill, which they began to take care of first of all the ecclesiastical authorities and then the whole population. Gheel has since evolved into the model of the largest open psychiatric therapeutic community in the world. Commemoration on May 15th. Chromolithographic Imaginative Vandevyvere-Petyt, Bruges, circa 1900

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Irlanda

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Medioevo

licence: RM

subject century: XIII

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Cromolitografia

id: 28555

file name: FSNgilardi_64394.jpg

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Santa DinfnaSanta Dimfnamental illnessmadnessCatholicismdevotional imagesantinimadnessmentally illreligionSantinolittle imageSanta DimpnaSanta DimphnamartyrbeheadingVandevyvere-PetytK. van de Vyvere-PetytBelgiumBrugesBruggeWest FlandersGeelGheelincestpatricidefemicidefemicide