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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