Saint Finien
(+ v. 560)
Il est considéré comme
étant un disciple de saint Colomba qui l'aurait fait abbé de Swords, près de
Dublin en Irlande.
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/6197/Saint-Finien.html
Photograph
of round tower at Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland, remains of early monastic site
Also
known as
Finian Lobur
Finian the Leper
Finnian…
Fintan…
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Disciple of Saint Columba.
Founded a church and monastery at
Innisfallen, Ireland. Monk at
Clonmore, Ireland. Abbot of
Swords abbey near Dublin, Ireland.
In his later years he retired to Clonmore to spend his last days as a prayerful monk.
He was called Lobhar (the Leper) because he briefly contracted leprosy when
he miraculously cured a
young boy of
the disease.
Born
c.560 at
Clonmore, Ireland of
natural causes
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Finian
Lobhar“. CatholicSaints.Info. 24 May 2020. Web. 29 May 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-finian-lobhar/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-finian-lobhar/
Book of Saints –
Finian Lobhair
Article
FINIAN LOBHAIR or THE
LEPER (March 16) (Saint) Abbot. (7th century) A Saint of the School of Saint
Columba. He is said to have governed as Abbot the monastery of Swords; but it
is vain to attempt to disentangle the traditions concerning him. From the circumstance
of his having suffered from some sort of skin disease he acquired his surname,
“The Leper.”
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Finian Lobhair”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
28 April 2013. Web. 29 May 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-finian-lobhair/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-finian-lobhair/
St. Finian Lobhar
Feastday: March 16
Death: 560
Irish abbot, a disciple of
St. Columba. He was born in Bregia, Leinster, Ireland. Tradition credits him
with founding a church at Innisfallen and a monastery there as well. After a
stay in Clonmore, Finian Lobhar became abbot of
Swords Abbey near
Dublin. He may have returned to Clonmore in his later years and was called
Lobhar, “the Leper,” but apparently did not have that disease. He acquired the
name when he contracted leprosy from
a young boy whom he cured of the disease.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3366
Finnian Lobhar, Abbot
(AC)
(also known as Finan the
Leper)
Born at Bregia, Leinster,
Ireland; died February 2, c. 560. Little is authentically known about Saint
Finnian because the records of his life are conflicting. He is said to have
been the son of Conail and descendent of Alild, king of Munster. He may have been
a disciple of Saint Columba (or perhaps he was trained at one of Columba's
foundations); others, that he was a disciple of Saint Brendan. He was ordained
by Bishop Fathlad, and may have been consecrated by him.
Finnian built a church
that is believed to have been at Innisfallen in County Kerry and so is
considered by some scholars to have been the founder of that monastery. Later
he lived at Clonmore Abbey in Leinster and then went to Swords near Dublin,
where he was made abbot by Columba when he left. Another account has him abbot
of Clonmore Monastery, where he was buried, for the last thirty years of his
life.
Lobhar means "the
Leper," a name he acquired when he reputedly assumed the disease of a
leper to cure a young boy of an illness. As is evident, much of the information
about Finnian is uncertain and conflicting, and it is not even certain what
century he lived in (Attwater2, Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Farmer,
Gill, Husenbeth).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0316.shtml
St. 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 imitated
the patience of Job under a loathsome and tedious distemper, from which his surname
was given him. 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. 1 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 the 2nd of
February; but, says Colgan, his festival is kept on the 16th of March, at all
the above-mentioned places. Sir James Ware speaks of two MS. histories of his
life. See also Usher, (Antiq. c. 17.) Colgan, 17 Martii. Mr. Smith, in his natural
and civil history of the county of Kerry, in 1755, p. 127.
Note 1. 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 among the MSS. of 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. [back]
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume III: March. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/3/162.html
Calendar
of Scottish Saints – Saint Finan, Abbot, A.D. (about) 575
Article
16
March. This saint, surnamed “The Leper,” from the disease with which he was
afflicted, is mentioned in Irish calendars on the 16th of this month. Although
the dedications to Saint Finan in Scotland are many, and devotion to him must
therefore have been widespread, it is difficult to assign a cause for it. Some
have thought that he was at some time at Iona, but the authentic particulars of
his life which are now extant are so few that it is impossible to determine. To
him is attributed the evangelisation of part of Argyllshire, in the district
which still bears the name of Glen-Finan. The ancient burial-place of the
district is on Eilean Finan, an island in Loch Shiel, where he is said to have
lived, and where is preserved one of the few ancient bronze bells which still
exist in Scot land; it is called by the saint’s name. A fair was formerly held
there annually, and was called “Saint Finan’s Fair.” Other dedications to this
saint are at Kilfinan in the same county Kilfinan, near Invergarry, and Mochrum
in Wigtonshire. “Saint Finzean’s Fair” (a manner of denoting Finyan), formerly
held at Perth, is supposed to have been in honour of the festival of this
saint.
MLA
Citation
Father Michael
Barrett, OSB.
“Saint Finan, Abbot, A.D. (about) 575”. The
Calendar of Scottish Saints, 1919. CatholicSaints.Info.
6 February 2014. Web. 29 May 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/calendar-of-scottish-saints-saint-finan-abbot-a-d-about-575/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/calendar-of-scottish-saints-saint-finan-abbot-a-d-about-575/
St Fintan Lobur
Celebrated on March
16th
Fintan was an Irish abbot
who lived in the sixth century. Although of Munster descent, he was born in
Leinster. He is said to have suffered from a skin disease, possibly leprosy. He
ruled over the monastery of Swords, north of Dublin, and possibly over Clonmore
at the end of his life, where he was buried.
St Fintan originally opposed the adoption of the Roman method for determining
the date of Easter. A synod convened at Magh Lene in 631 was unable to resolve
the matter, so a delegation was sent to Rome. After this Fintan withdrew his
opposition and adopted the system with the rest of Ireland. He died on 21
October 635.
In one of his few surviving quotes, he said: "Most ignorant and of least
account among the faithful, despised by many. I owe it to God's grace that so
many people should through me be born again to Him."
St Fintan is a patron of those suffering from leprosy.
SOURCE : https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/081
Saint of the Day – 16
March – Saint Finian Lobhar, surnamed “the Luminous Leper” (Died c 560)
Posted on March
16, 2021
Saint of the Day – 16
March – Saint Finian Lobhar, surnamed “the Luminous Leper” (Died c 560) Bishop,
Confessor, Abbot, Founder of Monasteries, mystic, miracle-worker. Born at
Bregia, Leinster, Ireland and died in c 560 at Clonmore, Ireland of natural
causes. He is also known as Finian Lobur, Finian the Leper, Finnian…, Fintan…
St Finian was born of an
illustrious family. He received the surname of Lobhar, or “the
Leper,” from the circumstance of his being afflicted with the leprosy, or
with some similar scrofulous disorder, during many years of his life.
When grown to be a boy,
Finian was educated by a senior, named Brendan, the Saint, to whom he had been
brought. By him, the child was instructed in the Christian doctrine and in a
knowledge of Sacred Scripture and holy literature. Having received his course
of training, with the master’s permission, Finian set out for the south of
Ireland, to which part his mother belonged. There, he found the Bishop, called
Fathlad, who honourably received him and finding that Finian was remarkable for
his sanctity and gravity of demeanour, it was deemed right to promote our saint
to Holy Orders.
We are even told, he
attained to the Episcopal rank. He was Consecrated by Bishop Fathlad and soon
his virtues and miracles, rendered him very renowned. He had frequent angelic
visions and colloquies with the heavenly messenger, so that he was thus
consoled and comforted.
One day, a certain woman
came to him and brought with her a small boy, who, from the time of his birth,
was blind, mute and a leper. For this afflicted creature, Finian prayed to the
Almighty but received for answer, that he must bear the leprosy himself, if he
willed the child to be healed. Finian cheerfully accepted that condition, when,
like holy Job, he was covered with ulcers from the sole of his foot even to the
top of his head. At the same time, the boy was healed and the saint bore his
infirmity, not only with patience, but even with joy.
Finian sat reading one
day by the edge of a lake, into which his book accidently fell and it sank to
the bottom. The water was so deep, no-one could recover it, however, after an
hour’s immersion, it came to the surface, in the presence of many persons there
assembled. What was even more wonderful, on being restored to the saint, it
seemed to have undergone no damage. There Finian built a Basilica and he
established a cemetery, where miracles were wrought, in favour of some sick
persons, during his life and after his death. It is believed that the famous
Abbey of Innis-fallen, which stood in an island of that name, in the great and
beautiful lake of Lough-Lane in the county of Kerry, was situate in this lake
and was founded by our Saint.
He founded a second
Monastery, called Ardfinnan, he built in Tipperary and a third at Cluainmore
Madoc, in Leinster, where he was buried.
St Finian died on 2
February but, says Colgan, who wrote his Vita, his festival is kept on 16 March
at all the above-mentioned places.
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