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
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
- The Martyrology of Donegal (Michael O'Clery OFM, 1630; Todd and Reeves edition), 13 June — Entered as "Damhnat, Virgin, of Sliabh Betha"; Butler distinguishes her from St Dymphna of Gheel.
- Wikidata Q139567016 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Damnat (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.