The Patron Saint of the Insane
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Saint Dymphna, whose memory is celebrated on the 15th May, is one of the least familiar of all the saints; and yet the scene ?f her martyrdom is known by name to psychiatrists all over the world. On this day in Gheel, a small village in the moorland district called the Kampenland, some 25 miles from Antwerp, there are processions and public festivities; special services are held in the church which houses the relics of the Saint, and among the throng of peasants and villagers attending the fete there are several hundreds of psychotic or otherwise mentally handicapped patients. This is what has made Gheel famous : for centuries it has been known as the village where the mentally afflicted are given a lodglt\g and considerate acceptance by the local people, in accordance ^ith a tradition founded in the middle ages, if not earlier. Eight hundred years ago the shrine of St. Dymphna was already a place
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