S. FANCHEA, OR FAINE, V.

HER feast has been kept for time immemorial in the parish church of

Rosairthir, in the diocese of Clogher, in Ulster: and at Kilhaine near

mount Bregh, on the borders of Meath, where her relics have been in

veneration. She seems to have been an abbess, and is thought to have

flourished in the sixth century, when many eminent saints flourished in

Ireland. Her name was not known to Bollandus or Sir James Ware. See

Chatelain.

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