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Fina (Serafina) (1238–1253) was an Italian Christian girl who is 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 Saint Gregory the Great allegedly appeared to her to predict her death. Miraculous healings were later attributed to her intercession.
![Painting of Saint Fina by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1464 to 1465.](../../../I/Saintfina.jpg.webp)
Fina is celebrated in San Gimignano on both March 12, the anniversary of her death, and the first Sunday in August. Her relics are kept in a chapel in the Collegiata di San Gimignano. A hospital in San Gimignano was formerly named in her honor and several paintings of her can be found in the town. (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