Baring-Gould’s sources: Scottish Kalendar of David Camerarius, by Dempster on Oct. 16. Ferrarius in his General Catalogue of the Saints. Fitz-Simon in his Catalogue of Irish Saints, on this day. Irish Kalendars on Feb. 24.] Cumine, sumamed Fionn or the White, son of Ernan, son of Fiachna, was therefore a descendant of Fergus, the grandfather of S. Columba. He went to Hy, or Iona, and on the death of Suibne, the Abbot, in 657, he was elected in his room. He wrote a life of S. Columba in 134 chapters, and died, after having administered the Abbey for twelve years, on February 24, a.d. 669.

He is not to be confounded with Cummian, the author of the Paschal Epistle, as is commonly done. The latter Cummian was sumamed Fada or the Long; he died in a.d. 662, and is commemorated on November 12. S. FAILBHE, AB.

(date uncertain.) [Dempster in his Scottish Menology. Ferrarius.) There are five saints of this name. 1. Failbhe, son of Pipan, son of Amalgad, of the noble race of Conall Gulban in Tyrconnel. Finan, Abbot of Rath, was his brother, and Iona was recruited from this stock, almost all the early abbots being related by blood. To that abbey Failbhe betook himself on the death of S. Cumine the White, in 669, and became abbot. He is quoted by his immediate successor, S. Adamnan. He seems twice to have revisited Ireland, probably in connection with the Paschal controversy. This Failbhe is generally commemorated on March 22.

2. Failbhe the Little was born in 668, and succeeded S. Killen as Abbot of Iona in 748. Of him nothing is known, save that he died in the eighty-seventh year of his age on March 10, a.d. 755, and that he was succeeded by Sleben, son of Congal, of the race of Conall Gulban. 3. Another Failbhe the Little was abbot of Clon-Macnois, and died in 71 1.

4. Failbhe, son of Guari, was the successor of S. Maelrubh 1 of Apurcrossan, (d. 722), he perished by shipwreck with twenty-two companions in 732.

5. Failbhe, Abbot of Erdairs, died in 766. It is uncertain whether Dempster meant to commemorate the 1 st, 2nd, 4th, or 5th. He says, “Abbot in Scotland,” all four fall under this designation.