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Painting of Saint Fina by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1464 to 1465.

Fina (Serafina) (1238–1253) was an Italian Christian virgin who is especially venerated in the Tuscan town of San Gimignano. She developed a paralytic illness and spent the rest of her life on a bed made from a wooden pallet, where, according to legends, Saint Gregory the Great appeared to her to predict her death. (Full article...)


Attributes: Violets, depicted with Saint Gregory the Great, or lying on her wooden board
Patronage: physically challenged people, spinners
See also: Theophanes the Confessor; Symeon the New Theologian; Luigi Orione