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Dymphna
Long ago in Ireland there lived a pagan princess named Dymphna,
the Gaelic word for deer. Her mother died just as the girl was blossoming
and her father, maddened with grief ,turned to his daughter as a
lover, for only Dymphna was more beautiful than the dead queen.
The girl fled to the forest and found solace there in the figure
of Holy innocence, the White Stag, sacrificial Messiah. When at
last her father hunted her down, he took off her head with his battle
axe. The girl became a fallen deer, holy in her sacrifice. From
a Meadow of Twilight, this she who is both Virgin and Stag protects
all the foundlings of the forest, the cast off and misused innocents
of the vast and dangerous world.
Dymphna is the patron of runaways, sleepwalkers, the motherless
and mentally ill.
height-
2ft
available for adoption |
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