Damhnad of Tedavnet
Irish saint
Feast: 13 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Damnat (Irish: Damhnait; also known as Davnet or Dymphna) was a nun who seems to have lived and died at Tydavnet (from Tech nDamnat, meaning "House of Damnat") at Sliabh Beagh, County Monaghan, Ireland. Tradition speaks of Saint Damnat as a virgin and the founder of a church or monastery, which is generally considered to have been located in the graveyard of the current village Catholic church. A bachall (staff) said to have belonged to her has been preserved; in the past, it was used as a lie detector. It is now in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q139567016 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Damnat (CC BY-SA)
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