Saint
Fionntan
A saint, commemorated in the Irish calendar; very little is recorded.
Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.
- Feast
- November 9old style November 22
- Era
- unknown
Life
Fionntan appears on 9 November (old style) in the Martyrology of Donegal, and also in the Martyrology of Tallaght. The entry gives no place and no parentage. Little else is known, and the veneration is that of the undivided Church.
Commemorated the same day November 9
Nektarios of AeginaSaint · Metropolitan of PentapolisNov 9
Symeon MetaphrastesVenerable · Byzantine hagiographerNov 9
John the DwarfVenerable · Desert FatherNov 9
Antoninus of ApameaMartyrNov 9- Agrippinus of NaplesSaint · Bishop of NaplesNov 9
Onesiphorus and PorphyryHoly MartyrsNov 9
Alexander of ThessalonikiHieromartyr · Archbishop of ThessalonicaNov 9
Theoctiste of LesbosVenerableNov 9
Parthenius BryanskikhHieromartyr · Bishop of AnanyivNov 9
Matrona of ConstantinopleVenerableNov 9
Onesiphorus the ConfessorVenerable · Monk of the Kiev CavesNov 9- AedhnatSaintNov 9