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ST FINIAN THE LEPER, ABBOT - 16 MARCH

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 16th of March WELCOME! 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-falle...