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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Flann of Finnghlais

A hierarch honored in the Irish tradition, associated with Finnghlais; very little is recorded.

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Feast
January 21old style February 3
Era
unknown
Place
Finnghlais
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Holy Hierarch Flann of Finnghlais is commemorated on 21 January (old style, Julian calendar) in the Martyrology of Donegal, and also in the Martyrology of Tallaght and the Martyrology of Gorman. He is called a bishop of Finnghlais. The name survives only in the martyrologies, without synodal canonization; nothing else is known.

Commemorated the same day January 21