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Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Finian Lobhar; Sixth Century Irish abbot and disciple of St. Columba; founded a church and monastery at Innisfallen; later became abbot of Swords Abbey near Dublin; acquired the name Lobhar--"the leper"--when he contracted leprosy from a young boy whom he had cured of the disease; died 560 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/16/23 Gospel: Luke 11:14-23