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Finian Lobhar
Irish Catholic saint
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Feast: 16 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
560
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Saint Finian the Leper (Irish: Fíonán Lobhar) was an early Irish saint credited by some sources with founding a church and monastery at Innisfallen in Killarney.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Sources
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, 16 March — Butler has a full entry: 'ST FINNIAN LOBHAR, Abbot (c. a.d. ...)' listed in the contents for March 16, the feast given for him. Local full-text copy.
- Wikidata Q621941 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Finian Lobhar (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.