Is there a Saint Daphne

Answer 1

Sort of; there is a Saint Dymphna (also seen as "Dympna" or "Dimpna"), whose name is sometimes confused and switched with "Daphne".

Saint Dymphna is the patron saint of the mentally and emotionally ill, those with neurological disorders, runaways, and victims of incest. She was an Irish girl, born to a pagan father and a devout Christian mother. Her mother died when she was 14, and her father, in a deteriorated mental state, made an effort to remarry a woman who looked like his wife. He therefore tried to force Dymphna to take her mother's place, since she resembled her mother very closely. Dymphna ran away, but was later caught and killed by her father, and was thus cannonized at 15.

Saint Dymphna's prayer goes: "Hear us, O God, Our Savior, as we honor St. Dymphna, patroness of those afflicted with mental and emotional illness. Help us to be inspired by her example and comforted by her merciful help. Amen."