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*S. Finian, probably the founder of Innisfallen.
The feast of S. Finian, confessor, surnamed the
Leper, was celebrated in Ireland on the sixteenth
of March. The feast of S. Finian, bishop and con-
fessor, was observed by the Scotish church on the
eighteenth day of the same month. (Breviar.
Aberd.; et Kalend. et Martyr. Aberd.) In the
beginning of the last century Finzean fair at the
kirk of Migvie,' was kept whiles in March and whiles
in April, on the Tuesday before Midlentron fair at
Banchrie.' (Aberdeen's New Prognostication for
the year 1708.)

S. Marnan's Kirk, at Aberchirder...... 189
S. Martin's Kirk, at Botarie............ 186
S. Mary's Kirk, at Cullen, in Boyne... 135
S. Maluoch'st Kirk, at Tarland......... 13

The festival of S. Mochteus, surnamed Mochta
Lugh, first bishop of Louth, was held on the nine-
teenth of August. Luoch fair" at the kirk of Tar-
land is still kept about the same season. S. Mochteus
is supposed to be the 'quidam proselytus Brito,
homo sanctus, Sancti Patricii episcopi discipulus,'
whose prophecy of the future renown of S. Columba,
is recorded by Adomnan in the second preface to his
Life of the venerable Abbot of Iona. (Pinkert.
Vitae Antiq. SS. Scot. p. 55.)

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