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Finnian and his pupils in a stained glass window at the Church of St. Finian in Clonard. Finnian came first to Aghowle in County Wicklow at the foot of Sliabh Condala, where Oengus, the king of Leinster granted him a site. He then founded a monastic community on Skellig Michael, off the coast of Kerry, 'though this is doubted by historians. [7]
The abbot of Clonard led the clergy of the midlands in the same fashion that the abbot of Armagh led those in the north. [4] During its heyday, a hymn written in Finnian's honour claimed that the monastery's school housed 3,000 pupils receiving religious instruction at any given time. [5] A great part of the abbey erected by St. Finian was ...
St. Finnian imparting his blessing to the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. The Twelve Apostles of Ireland (also known as Twelve Apostles of Erin, Irish: Dhá Aspal Déag na hÉireann) were twelve early Irish monastic saints of the sixth century who studied under St Finnian (d. 549) at his famous monastic school Clonard Abbey at Cluain-Eraird (Erard's Meadow), now Clonard in County Meath.
The Santa Fe Terminal Complex is an 18-acre (73,000 m 2) complex of historic buildings in the Government District of downtown Dallas, Texas ().Constructed in 1924 as the headquarters for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway and the Southwest's largest merchandising center, three of the original four buildings remain today and have been renovated into various uses.
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KDTX-TV (channel 58) is a religious television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's studios are located at TBN's International Production Center in Irving, and its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill ...
Finnian (also Finian, Fionán or Fionnán in Irish; or Finianus and Finanus in its Latinised form) may refer to: Finnian of Movilla (495–589), Christian missionary to Ireland; Finnian of Clonard (470–549), Irish founder of the monastery of Clonard; Finian Lobhar an early Irish saint credited with founding a church and monastery at ...