St. Finbar parishioners celebrate patron’s feast day
BATH BEACH — Priests and parishioners of Saint Finbar Catholic Church took to the streets to celebrate the feast day of their patron saint on Sunday, Sept. 29, taking part in a procession through Bath Beach with a statue of the Irish saint who gave the parish its name.
Led by the Rev. Michael Louis Gelfant, the church’s pastor, parishioners and members of the clergy celebrated mass and then walked for several blocks with the statue. In a nod to St. Finbar’s Irish heritage, the Clann Eireann Pipe Band took part in the procession.
The Feast Day of St. Finbar is Sept. 25. St. Finbar, who was born in 550 A.D., served as the bishop of Cork, Ireland.