ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY
Saints celebrated on the 17th of February
SAINT FINTAN, ABBOT
Saint Fintan, Abbot of Cluain-Ednech, Ireland - which Usher interprets the Ivy-Cave, in the diocese of Lethglean, in Leinster, in the sixth century.
ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES WAS ST COMGAL
He had for disciple St Comgal, the founder of the abbey of Benchor, and master of St Columban.
Colgan reckons twenty-four Irish saints of the name of Fintan; but probably several of these were the same person honoured in several places. Another St Fintan. surnamed Munnu, who is honoured on October 21, was very famous.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
PRAYER:
May the intercession of the blessed abbot Fintan commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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