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	Finnian of Moville Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		St Finnian or St. Uinniau' of Moville (495 - 589), was a christian missionary who became a legendary figure in medieval Ireland, though not to be confused with his namesake St.
		Finnian of Moville's feast-day as it stands is the 10th of September.
		Moville is a town in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland.
	finnian.of.moville.en.ogarnij.info (1673 words)

	St. Finnian of Moville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He studied under St. Colman of Dromore and St. Mochae of Noendrum (Mahee Island), and subsequently at Candida Casa (Whithern), whence he proceeded to Rome, returning to Ireland in 540 with an integral copy of St. Jerome's Vulgate.
		Finnian's most distinguished pupil at Moville (County Down) was St. Columba, whose surreptitious copying of the Psaltery led to a very remarkable sequel.
		Finnian of Moville wrote a rule for his monks, also a penitential code, the canons of which were published by Wasserschleben in 1851.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/f/finnian_of_moville,saint.html (241 words)

	History Of The Scottish Nation - Vol 2, Chapter 20 - Columba; Birth; Education; Founds numerous colleges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Finnian, one of the lights of his country, presided over a theological seminary at Moville, at the head of Strangford Loch.
		But the second Finnian did not unite the two offices of abbot and presbyter, for when Columba had finished his course of study at Clonard, and was ready to receive ordination, he was sent to Etchen of Clonfad.
		The transcript must go to Finnian." Columba, who felt, doubtless, that the analogy—for argument it could not be called—pointed in just the opposite direction, bore from that hour a grudge against King, Diarmid, and his displeasure was deepened by an incident that soon thereafter fell out.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/wylie/vol2ch20.htm (3898 words)

	SAINT FINNIAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Finnian of Clonard is generally regarded as the father of Irish monasticism.
		He was born in Co. Meath towards the end of the fifth century and it is said that all the birds of Ireland gathered as a portent of the holy life he would lead.
		Finnian became convinced that the ascetic life offered the best way of consecrating one's life to God.
	www.clandonnelly.com /st_finnian.htm (413 words)

	[K]eltic Saints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He went on to study under Saint Finnian of Moville, County Down, and is reputed through his intercessions to have worked miracles.
		He was born in County Meath towards the end of the fifth century, and it is said that all the birds of Ireland gathered as a portent of the holy life he would lead.
		Finnian's first monastery was at Aghowle, County Wicklow, but he settled c.
	www.struggler.org /KelticSaints.html (1332 words)

	St Michael and All Angels, Inverness - Saint Columba of Iona
		He was sent to the famous school of St Finnian at Moville and left there as a deacon to continue his studies under another St Finnian at Clonard.
		When St Finnian of Moville returned from Rome with a number of precious books, possibly among them a copy of St Jerome's new Latin version of the Bible called the Vulgate, Columba was very anxious to see them.
		Finnian was angry, and when Columba refused to surrender his copy, he appealed to the King, who gave the celebrated judgement on which all modern copyright depends, "To every cow its calf; to every book its copy".
	www.angelforce.co.uk /stmichael/columba.html (1358 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Columba
		The story that St. Finnian wished Columba to be consecrated bishop, but through a mistake only priest's orders were conferred, is regarded by competent authorities as the invention of a later age (Reeves, Adam., 226).
		Later writers state that his departure was due to the fact that he had induced the clan Neill to rise and engage in battle against King Diarmait at Cooldrevny in 561.
		Columba is said to have supported by his prayers the men of the North who were fighting while Finnian did the same for Diarmait's men.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04136a.htm (2342 words)

	Old English Libraries - Chapter I. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Educated first by Finnian of Moville, then by another tutor of the same name at the famous school of Clonard, he journeyed to other centres for further instruction after his ordination.
		He borrowed a Psalter from Finnian of Moville, and made a copy of it, working secretly at night.
		Finnian heard of the piracy, and, as owner of the original, claimed the copy.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/historical/OldEnglishLibraries/chap1.html (5560 words)

	Netherlorn and its Neighbourhood - Chapter VI - The Holy Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		St Finnian of Moville (Magh bile) had returned from Italy with a very rare and precious copy of part of the Scriptures, nothing less than a copy of St Jerome's edition of the Psalms, and in that Saint's handwriting.
		While St Columba was a guest of Finnian's, he, by some means unknown to the latter, got entry to the room, and night after night busily engaged himself in transcribing a copy.
		St Finnian, upon a certain occasion wishing to consult the manuscript, sent his servant for it, and the man, finding the door of the room barred, peeping through the keyhole, saw St Columba busily at work upon the transcription.
	www.electricscotland.com /books/netherlorn6.htm (3581 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Irish monk who followed in the path of Saint Patrick and began the initiator of a strict form of Irish monasticism.
		Finnian had close relations with the British Church.
		He became a monk in Wales, returned to Ireland, and founded several monasteries, most notably Clonard in Meath, which was the greatest school of the period, renowned chiefly for its biblical studies (Finnian was a great Biblical scholar).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1212.htm (181 words)

	9 - 10 Finnian of Moville
		Finnian attracted the love of a Pictish princess.
		the first question is what is God's will for me? Finnian chose his priestly vocation, leaving the princess with a broken heart - until she found her (next) true love.
		Finnian found that the routines of the community were disrupted by having to go so far to the mill which was powered by a stream.
	journals.aol.com /wtnolansr/SAINTSandSONS/entries/425 (439 words)

	OatesKids.com
		Finnian was educated at the abbey of Nendrum on Mahee island on Strangford Lough.
		Some scholars say that Finnian introduced to Ireland its first copy of Jerome's Vulgate version of the scriptures.
		Several Finnians are associated with the famous story of Columba's secret copying of the manuscript without permission; the king's judgment against Columba was supposed to have led to his exile in Iona.
	oateskids.com /Logan/Meaning.htm (419 words)

	Saint Columba
		He went on to study under Saint Finnian of Moville, Co. Down, where his prayers are said to have turned spring water into communion wine.
		He later became a pupil of Saint Finnian of Clonard and was destined to become the most famous of the latter's "twelve apostles of Ireland".
		During a visit to Moville, Columba is said to have secretly copied a book of psalms.
	www.irelandseye.com /irish/people/saints/columba.shtm (614 words)

	DAllon, The Problem with Congress and Copyright Law, 44 Santa Clara L. Rev. 365 (2004)
		After the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, [FN45] bookmaking and the preservation of literature fell largely upon various monasteries throughout Europe.
		King Dermott pronounced the now famous judgment, "To every cow her calf, and consequently to every book its copy." [FN55] Partly in response to this dispute, Columba precipitated a civil war which ultimately resulted in defeat of the King.
		Finnian was the owner of the psalter but was not its author.
	homepages.law.asu.edu /~dkarjala/opposingcopyrightextension/commentary/DallonProblemWithCongressSantaClaraLRev2004.htm (13770 words)

	Saint Columba
		He decided at age 19 to enter the famous school of Saint Finnian at Moville where he was ordained into the diaconate.
		He learned holiness, poetry and scholarship under famous holy men of the time and was later known as one of the group of disciples called the "Twelve Apostles of Erin".
		Saint Finnian learned of it, claimed the copy, and a dispute arose so serious it came before King Diarmaid.
	www.geocities.com /c_brundage/saints/col2.htm (1172 words)

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		Finnian's first monastery was at Aghowle, Co. Wicklow, but he settled c.
		There is a tradition that the Psalter, called the Cathach ("the battle-book"), now in the Royal Irish Academy, was one of Finnian's books.
		Born in Leinster, in the 9th century, St Fintan was captured and made a slave by Vikings who took him to the Orkneys.
	www.aoh61.com /saints/saints_fl.htm (2756 words)

	Irish Saints
		He received his training from Finnian of Moville, at the head of Strangford Loch, where “he learned the wisdom of Holy Scripture.” (Adamnan) After that, he joined the monastery of Clonard, where up to 3000 students received training from another Finnian.
		Columcille pleaded that he had in no way injured Finnian's original and that Finnian should not oppose multiplying the Scriptures for the instruction of the people.
		The High King, Diarmuid, ordered the return of the copy to the owner of the original with “to every cow her calf, to every book her copy!” Another reason for the subsequent war might have been that Diarmuid had killed Curnan, the son of the King of Connaught, while he was under protection of Columcille.
	www.irishchristian.com /History/IrishSaints.htm (1002 words)

	A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Finnian of Moville (by whom he was ordained deacon).
		While at Clonard with St. Finnian he was ordained to the priesthood by bp.
		Etchen of Clonfad, to whom he was sent by St. Finnian for that purpose.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.v.iii.xliv.html (978 words)

	Saint2
		Tradition says that he had longed for it ever since his younger days at the monastery; remember, Columba was ordained a deacon by Finnian at Moville.
		At any rate, the fact was discovered and Finnian lodged a complaint with King Diarmait (Dermott).
		What is not in dispute is that Columba was a man of his age --and from a prestigious royal family to boot.
	www.stcolumbasandiego.com /saint2.htm (1081 words)

	St Ninian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Serf in turn was master to Kentigern (Mungo) who evangelized the region of modern Glasgow and is patron of that city.
		Ninians community at Whithorn later received Finnian of Moville as a student.
		Finnian returned to Ireland and included among his students the twelve apostles of Ireland, a notable group that included Columba of Iona.
	www.aidantrust.org /html/stninian.html (394 words)

	Gildas, Letters. (1899). pp. 255-257. Introduction to the Letters.
		Kirchengeschichte, xiv, 437, concludes that Vennianus must be, not Finnian, the founder of Clonard, who died about 549, but Finnian of Maghbile (Moville), whose death is placed by some in 588, by others in 610.
		The question is an exceedingly difficult one, as the evidence seems conflicting and confused; yet one is certainly safe in the assertion that a considerable time must have intervened between the writing of the De Excidio and the penning of letters that would supply such 257 extracts as these.
		Further, if Finnian, the founder of Clonard, died about 549, then it is natural that we should find Gildas' correspondent in the later Finnian of Moville.
	www.davidburnet.com /EarlyFathers-Other/www.tertullian.org/fathers/gildas_03_intro.htm (680 words)

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		At Clonard, Finnian trained the "twelve apostles of Ireland," including St. Ciaran and St. Columba.
		raised by Christian priest; he was sent to study under Finnian at Moville (Strangford Lough); he also studied under an Irish Christian bard.
		Columba is also thought to have evangelized areas of the Inner Hebrides and eastern Scotland (both Scots and Picts).
	campus.houghton.edu /webs/employees/tpaige/IrishXty-1.htm (634 words)

	St. Columbkille Catholic Church
		After studying at Moville under Saint Finnian and then at Clonard with another Saint Finnian, he surrendered his princely claims, he became a monk at Glasnevin under Mobhi and was ordained.
		It is said that on one occasion, so anxious was Columba to have a copy of the Psalter that he shut himself up for a whole night in the church that contained it, transcribing it laboriously by hand.
		He was discovered by a monk who watched him through the keyhole and reported it to his superior, Finnian of Moville.
	www.stcolumbkille.org /bios.long.htm (2557 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Moville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sir Robert Montgomery, an Irishman born and bred, was the second son of the Rector of Moville in County Donegal.
		B&W Illustrations Sir Robert Montgomery, an Irishman, was the second son of the Rector of Moville in County Donegal.
		The centennial publication of the city of Moville, Iowa, 1887-1987.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Moville (696 words)

	AMERICAN MONSTERS
		As a young man Columba took a keen interest in the church, and soon after joined the monastery at Moville, where he was ordained a deacon by St. Finnian.
		After studying with a bard known as Gemman, Columba was ordained a priest by Bishop Etchen of Clonfad.
		Tradition has it that after founding several other monasteries, Columba copied St. Finnian's psalter without the permission of Finnian, and thus devalued the book.
	www.americanmonsters.com /pioneers.html (5238 words)

	ST FINNIAN OF MOVILLE Mission of the Celtic Episcopal Church (Euless,TX) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Being the Feast of St Finnian of Moville, we choose this 6th century saint's name for the new ministry of the Celtic Episcopal Church.
		St Finnian himself was from Ireland and spent 20 years working in Scotland before returning to Ireland at Moville (Magh Bhile) in Co.Down.
		St Finnian is known for having brought the first copy of the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible translated by St Jerome to Ireland, having owned the "Cathach" psalter now housed at the Royal Irish Academy.
	expage.com /page/stbrendan (689 words)

	Cathach of St. Columba - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is traditionally associated with St. Columba of Iona (d.
		597), and was identified as the copy clandestinely made by him of a Psalter loaned to him by St. Finnian of Moville.
		Being the first recorded case of copyright infringement in history, the resultant dispute led to the Battle of Cul Dremhe in 561.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Cathach_of_St._Columba (375 words)

	Columba of Iona - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He became a monk and soon rose in the church hierarchy to the rank of priest.
		Tradition asserts that, sometime around 560, he became involved in a copyright wrangle with St. Finnian of Moville over a psalter.
		The dispute eventually led to the pitched Battle of Cul Dremhe in 561, during which many men were killed.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Columba (496 words)

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		As a result of all this, Colmcille was a very well educated young man and spent much of his time copying sacred books and writings to share with others as books at that time were so scarce.
		While studying with St. Finnian in Moville, he secretly copied a book of Psalms, the property of St. Finnian.
		Part of the reason for the ruling was that the King was angry at Colmcille for he had previously given refuge to a murderer.
	www.welovedonegal.com /columba.html (2193 words)

	Celtic Saints
		The nuns of the new convent at Kildare have continued the tradition of the perpetual flame.
		Born in 521 AD at Gartan County Donegal, the early Irish monk was taught by St. Finnian at Moville on Strangford Lough.
		He founded numerous monasteries in Ireland until he was forced to leave because of a dispute over the copying of a book without the permission of its owner St. Finnian.
	www.celtic-art.com /info/saints.php3 (401 words)

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