Fintan of Doon
Feast: 3 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Little is known of Fintan, and what is recorded is of doubtful historical value. Of Irish origin, he was a disciple of Saint Comgall, probably the abbot of Bangor. He then went to Dún Bléisce (Doon, County Limerick), where he was given land for a monastery. He died on an unrecorded date, said by legend to be at the age of 260.
A feast in his honour was anciently kept at Doon on 3 January, and a holy well there is dedicated to him and was a place of pilgrimage on his feast day; the Benedictine Order still keeps his feast on 3 January. A second foundation, Kell-Finntain, possibly Killfinane in Limerick, is also attributed to him.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
Irish disciple of Saint Comgall who founded a monastery at Doon, County Limerick; feast 3 January.
- Santi, beati e testimoni (santiebeati.it) - San Fintan di Dun Blesci, by Mario Salsano
- Wikidata Q121358343 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.