Finian Lobhar

Saint Finian was a disciple of St. Columba. He was a strict Irish abbot, whose monks followed a vegetarian diet.^[3] For a period of time, he stayed in Clonmore, later becoming the abbot of Swords Abbey near Dublin.^[1] He may have returned to Clonmore in his later years, and was called Lobhar, "The Leper". Following the custom, he acquired the name when he contracted leprosy from a young boy, whom he had cured of the disease.^[4] A conflicting source, however, says that he only cured the boy and did not contract leprosy himself.^[5] His feast day is 16 March.^[3]