Saint Fina


Fina
Fresco of Fina painted by Benozzo Gozzoli
Virgin
Born1238
San Gimignano, Florentine Republic
Died12 March [O.S. 5 March] 1253
San Gimignano, Florentine Republic
Venerated inSan Gimignano, Italy
FeastMarch 12 and 1st Sunday of August
Attributesviolets, with Saint Gregory the Great, or lying on her wooden board

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.