Fintan von Rheinau

St. Fintan, painting in the Mariastein monastery church

Fintan Rheinau (Findan, Findanus) (* 803 - 804 in Leinster , Ireland , † 15 November 878 in Rheinau , Switzerland ) was an Irish Catholic hermit , who settled in Rheinau. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church .

Life

Rheinau monastery church with the Fintan altar (side altar left in the middle)

Findan lost his parents and siblings in internal wars in Ireland and to abducted 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 to Rome through the Franconian Empire . From there he went to the Farfa monastery 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 . After a few years, he persuaded him to enter his monastery in Rheinau as a monk, which he did in 851. From the year 856 he lived there as an inclusion walled in until his death. His bones are kept in the monastery church of Rheinau in the reliquary in the Fintan altar . Shortly after his death, the Vita Findani was written by a confrere of the monastery and is considered reliable. His attributes in church art are a dove, a ducal hat and a monk's habit.

literature

Fintan Birchler: The Saint Fintan: A Pattern of Christian Perfection , 1793, 643 S. Google Books
Harald Derschka : The life of St. Findan von Rheinau after the St. Galler Vita Findani from manuscript 317 of the Vadian collection, canton library (Vadiana) . In: Rorschacher Neujahrsblatt 84 (1994), pp. 77-86 ( digitized version ).
Georg Gresser : Article "Findan", in: Lexicon for Theology and Church (LThK) Volume 3, Column 1293, Freiburg 1995.
Ekkart Sauser : FINDAN (Fintan): St. Hermit. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 382. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Beatrix Zureich: Saint Fintan von Rheinau His life and his spirituality. Miriam, Jestetten 2003. ISBN 978-3-87449-326-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ All data taken from: Beatrix Zureich: The holy Fintan von Rheinau His life and his spirituality. Miriam, Jestetten 2003. ISBN 978-3-87449-326-0 .
↑ Ekkart Sauser : FINDAN (Fintan): St. Hermit. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 382. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Fintan von Rheinau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Findan, Findanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish monk in Rheinau Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	at 803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leinster , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH	November 15, 878
Place of death	Rheinau , Switzerland

[1] All data taken from: Beatrix Zureich: The holy Fintan von Rheinau His life and his spirituality. Miriam, Jestetten 2003. ISBN 978-3-87449-326-0 .

[2] Ekkart Sauser : FINDAN (Fintan): St. Hermit. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 382. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )