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Rheinau

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Monastery on an islet at a bend of the Rhine, in the present municipality of Rheinau (Andelfingen, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland), near St. Gallen. The Irishman St Fintan (Findan) is said to have arrived there as a pilgrim in the 9th century, after an escape from his viking captors, and attained sainthood.


See also: Fintán of Rheinau
Fintan (Findan) of Rheinau
(fl. 9th century)
Irish saint from Leinster who is said to have been captured by vikings and carried off as a slave to the Orkneys, only to escape and embark on a pilgrimage to Rome; while returning home, he met and joined a community of anchorites based at Rheinau (at the Rhine, near Schaffhausen, modern Switzerland).

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