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ST FINIAN THE LEPER, ABBOT - 16 MARCH

 

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SAINT FINIAN THE LEPER, ABBOT 


⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints

(Saint Finian, surnamed Lobhar, or the Leper.) He was son of Conail, descended from Kian, the son of Alild, king of Munster. He was a disciple of St Brendan, and flourished about the middle of the sixth century. 

HE SUFFERED FROM A TEDIOUS DISTEMPER

He imitated the patience of Job under a loathsome and tedious distemper, from which his surname was given him. 

INNISFALLEN

The famous abbey of Innisfallen, which stood in an island of that name, in the great and beautiful lake of Lough-Lane in the county of Kerry, was founded by our saint. 

ARDFINNAN

A second, called from him Ardfinnan, he built in Tipperary; and a third at Cluain-more Madoc, in Leinster, where he was buried. He died on February 2; but, says Colgan, his festival is kept on March 16, at all the above-mentioned places. 

NOTE:

In the monastery of Innis-fallen was formerly kept a chronicle called the Annals of Innis-fallen. They contain a sketch of universal history, from the creation to the year 430. From that time the annalist amply enough prosecutes the affairs of Ireland down to the year 1215, when he wrote. They were continued by another hand to 1320. They are often quoted by Bishop Usher and Sir James Ware. An imperfect transcript is kept in the library of Trinity college, Dublin. Bishop Nicholson, in his Irish Historical Library, informs us, that the late duke of Chandos had a complete copy of them.

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

May the intercession of the blessed abbot Finian 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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