Feasts and saints with names like “FELIX”

Saint Felix of Burgundy, Bishop of Dunwich, Enlightener of East Anglia

Saint Felix of Burgundy, Bishop of Dunwich, Enlightener of East Anglia

Saint Felix, the Apostle of East Anglia, was born in the Burgundy region of Gaul (now France). It was he who converted Sigebert (September 27), King of East Anglia, while he was in exile in Gaul. He was forced to flee there, in order to save himself from the intrigues of his kinsmen. When Saint…

Venerable Euthymius, Enlightener of Karelia, Finland and the Righteous Anthony and Felix

Venerable Euthymius, Enlightener of Karelia, Finland and the Righteous Anthony and Felix

According to an ancient manuscript Hemerologion (Ημερολογιον), Saint Euthymios was born in the second half of the XIV century. From his youth, he felt drawn to the monastic life, so when he reached adulthood, he travelled north around the year 1400, in order to live as an Anchorite.…

Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona and the Martyr Felix

Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona and the Martyr Felix

The Martyr Eulalia lived in Spain, near the city of Barcionum (now Barcelona), and she was raised by her parents in piety and the Christian Faith. Already at fourteen years of age, the maiden spent a solitary life in her parental home with others of her own age, occupied in prayer, the reading of…