A baptismal name for a boy
Finnian
3 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Finnian
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Venerable Finnian of ClonardDecember 12One of the early monastic saints of Ireland, founder of Clonard Abbey in County Meath, who died in 549.- Saint FinnianApril 7An Irish holy man of the early Church.
Venerable Finnian of MovillaSeptember 10Founder of the monastery of Movilla in Ireland and teacher of Saint Columba, reposed in 579.
Questions
The name day of Finnian is December 12, the feast of Venerable Finnian of Clonard. It is also kept on April 7, September 10.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 3 saints named Finnian, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Finnian is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Venerable Finnian of Clonard as patron.