# Ffinian

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{{Short description|Irish 5th century saint}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2015}}

'''Saint Ffinian''' was an Irish 5th century [saint](/source/saint) who worked in Wales.<ref>Gwynfor Evans, Land of My Fathers: 2000 Years of Welsh History (Y Lolfa, 1974) [https://books.google.com/books?id=5jtC1mWM86AC&dq=Ffinian+Saint&pg=PA101  page 101].</ref> He was a contemporary of [Saint David](/source/Saint_David) who worked in Wales for thirty years establishing three [church](/source/church_building)es.<ref>Rice Rees, ''An Essay on the Welsh Saints Or the Primitive Christians, Usually Considered to Have Been the Founders of the Churches in Wales'' (Google eBook) (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836)  [https://books.google.com/books?id=h4gOAAAAQAAJ&dq=Ffinian+Saint&pg=PA239 page 239].</ref> He is said to have met Saint David in 530[AD](/source/Anno_Domini). His [feast day](/source/feast_day) is 23 February.

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Category:6th-century Welsh people
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