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[[File:Hl.fintan.jpg|thumb|St. Fintan of Rheinau, painting from the Monastery Mariastein]]
'''Fintan of Rheinau''' ''(Findan, Findanus)'' (* 803-804 in [[Leinster]], [[Ireland]]; † 15 November [[878]] in [[Rheinau, Switzerland]]) was an Irish Catholic hermit who settled in Rheinau. In the Catholic Church he is venerated as a [[saint]].
== Life ==
Findan lost his parents and brothers and sisters in internal wars in Ireland and through abductions by the [[Vikings]]. He himself was enslaved by them and taken to the [[Orkney]] Islands, but was able to escape to [[Scotland]]. There he stayed with a bishop for two years. In 845 he made a pilgrimage through the [[Frankish Empire]] to [[Rome]]. From there he went to the monastery of [[Farfa]] where he lived as a monk for some time, then via [[Rhaetia]] to [[Swabia]], or to the landgraviate of [[Klettgau]], where he entered the service of the [[Alemannic]] nobleman Wolvene. Wolvene persuaded him after a few years to join his monastery in Rheinau as a monk, which he did in 851. From the year 856 he lived there walled in as an incluse until his death. His bones are kept in the Rheinau monastery church in the reliquary in the Fintan altar. Shortly after his death, the Vita Findani was written by a confrere of the monastery, it is considered reliable. His attributes in church art are a dove, a ducal hat and the monks' habit.<ref>All data taken from: Beatrix Zureich: Saint Fintan von Rheinau His Life and Spirituality. Miriam, Jestetten 2003. ISBN 978-3-87449-326-0.</ref>
== References ==
* Fintan Birchler: ''Der Heilige Fintan: ein Muster der Christlichen Vollkommenheit'', 1793, 643 S. [https://ift.tt/3gFlWg4 Google Books]
* Harald Derschka: ''Das Leben des heiligen Findan von Rheinau nach der St. Galler Vita Findani aus der Handschrift 317 der Vadianischen Sammlung, Kantonsbibliothek (Vadiana)''. In: ''Rorschacher Neujahrsblatt'' 84 (1994), S. 77–86 ([https://ift.tt/33A8XZr Digitalisat]).
* Georg Gresser: Artikel "Findan", in: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche (LThK) Band 3, Spalte 1293, Freiburg 1995.
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* Beatrix Zureich: ''Der heilige Fintan von Rheinau'' Sein Leben und seine Spiritualität. Miriam, Jestetten 2003. ISBN 978-3-87449-326-0.
== Web links ==
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* [https://ift.tt/3gGh0HB Biografie im ökumenischen Heiligenlexikon]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cHivbqTW0mk Video: Auf der Spur des Heiligen Fintan auf der Insel Rheinau]
'''Fintan of Rheinau''' ''(Findan, Findanus)'' (* 803-804 in [[Leinster]], [[Ireland]]; † 15 November [[878]] in [[Rheinau, Switzerland]]) was an Irish Catholic hermit who settled in Rheinau. In the Catholic Church he is venerated as a [[saint]].
== Life ==
Findan lost his parents and brothers and sisters in internal wars in Ireland and through abductions by the [[Vikings]]. He himself was enslaved by them and taken to the [[Orkney]] Islands, but was able to escape to [[Scotland]]. There he stayed with a bishop for two years. In 845 he made a pilgrimage through the [[Frankish Empire]] to [[Rome]]. From there he went to the monastery of [[Farfa]] where he lived as a monk for some time, then via [[Rhaetia]] to [[Swabia]], or to the landgraviate of [[Klettgau]], where he entered the service of the [[Alemannic]] nobleman Wolvene. Wolvene persuaded him after a few years to join his monastery in Rheinau as a monk, which he did in 851. From the year 856 he lived there walled in as an incluse until his death. His bones are kept in the Rheinau monastery church in the reliquary in the Fintan altar. Shortly after his death, the Vita Findani was written by a confrere of the monastery, it is considered reliable. His attributes in church art are a dove, a ducal hat and the monks' habit.<ref>All data taken from: Beatrix Zureich: Saint Fintan von Rheinau His Life and Spirituality. Miriam, Jestetten 2003. ISBN 978-3-87449-326-0.</ref>
== References ==
* Fintan Birchler: ''Der Heilige Fintan: ein Muster der Christlichen Vollkommenheit'', 1793, 643 S. [https://ift.tt/3gFlWg4 Google Books]
* Harald Derschka: ''Das Leben des heiligen Findan von Rheinau nach der St. Galler Vita Findani aus der Handschrift 317 der Vadianischen Sammlung, Kantonsbibliothek (Vadiana)''. In: ''Rorschacher Neujahrsblatt'' 84 (1994), S. 77–86 ([https://ift.tt/33A8XZr Digitalisat]).
* Georg Gresser: Artikel "Findan", in: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche (LThK) Band 3, Spalte 1293, Freiburg 1995.
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* Beatrix Zureich: ''Der heilige Fintan von Rheinau'' Sein Leben und seine Spiritualität. Miriam, Jestetten 2003. ISBN 978-3-87449-326-0.
== Web links ==
*
* [https://ift.tt/3gGh0HB Biografie im ökumenischen Heiligenlexikon]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cHivbqTW0mk Video: Auf der Spur des Heiligen Fintan auf der Insel Rheinau]
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