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Saint Félix
Felix is a masculine given name that originates from the Latin word (genitive ), meaning "happy" or "lucky". The feminine forms are Felicia or Felicity. The name was popularized by early Christian saints and Roman emperors. In modern usage, Felix has maintained its popularity in various cultures, especially in English, German, and Scandinavian-speaking countries. In Romance languages such as French, Portuguese, and Spanish, the acute accent form "Félix" is commonly used. The Italian form of the name is " Felice", and its Polish and Serbian form is " Feliks". The name has continued to hold its positive connotations and is found across different regions and periods. Notable people with the name include: Romans *Antonius Felix, procurator of Judea * A part of many Roman emperors' titles, starting with Commodus * Flavius Felix (died 430), Roman consul * Felix (son of Entoria), son of Saturn and Entoria and brother of Janus in Roman mythology *Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix, Fortunatus, And Achilleus
Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus were 3rd-century Christian saints who suffered martyrdom during the reign of Caracalla. Felix, a priest, Fortunatus and Achilleus, both deacons, were sent by Irenaeus, to Valence, to convert the locals. It is said that they died . Legends Felix, Fortunatus and Achilleus were sent to Valence, by Saint Irenaeus of Lyon. From a humble lodging wherein they lived a life of much penance they evangelised the town. They also performed many miracles in the area of Valence, and through their preaching many people were converted. This led to their arrest. They were freed from prison, by angels, who told them to destroy all the idols of the temples in Valence. So Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, destroyed images of Mercury, Saturn, and a particularly valuable amber statue of Jupiter. For their actions the three were captured again, had their legs broken, followed by torture on wheels. Having survived all of these torments they were beheaded. Although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Of Burgundy
Felix of Burgundy (died 8 March 647 or 648), also known as Felix of Dunwich, was the first bishop of the kingdom of the East Angles. He is widely credited as the man who introduced Christianity to the kingdom. Almost all that is known about him comes from the ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', completed by the English historian Bede in about 731, and the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle''. Bede wrote that Felix freed "the whole of this kingdom from long-standing evil and unhappiness". Felix came from the Francia, Frankish kingdom of Kingdom of Burgundy, Burgundy, and may have been a priest at one of the monasteries in Francia founded by the Irish missionary Columbanus—he may have been Bishop of Châlons, before being forced to seek refuge elsewhere. Felix travelled from Burgundy to Canterbury, before being sent by Archbishop Honorius of Canterbury to Sigeberht of East Anglia's kingdom in about 630 (travelling by sea to Babingley in Norfolk, according to local legend). U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Of Nantes
Felix of Nantes (514-584) was a 6th-century Bishop of Nantes, France. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Life Felix was married, and in 551 at the age of 37, he was made Bishop of Nantes while his wife became a nun. He then sold his patrimony on behalf of the poor, and built a cathedral within city walls as planned by his predecessor, Evemer. His municipal improvements at Nantes were praised in the poems of Venantius Fortunatus. He often mediated between the people of Brittany and Frankish kings. Guerech II, Count of Vannes, plundered the Diocese of Rennes and the Diocese of Vannes, and repulsed the troops which King Chilperic sent against him. At the entreaties of Bishop Felix, the count withdrew his forces and made peace. Felix was at the Council of Paris in 557 and the Council of Tours in 567, where it was noted that some Gallo-Roman customs of ancestor worship were still being practiced. He died at the age of 70 on January 8, 584, having served as Bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Of Cornwall
Felec or Felix was an obscure 5th- or 6th-century British saint active in Cornwall. The church of St Felicitas and St Piala's Church, Phillack near Hayle is dedicated to Saint Felec (as he appears in a 10th-century Vatican codex). Later generations mistook him for the female Saint Felicity (alias Felicitas) of Rome. , p. 121 Saint Felix was said to have had the miraculous gift of being able to communicate with lions, cats, and other feline creatures. There is also a Mount St Phillack in |
Felix Of Bilibio
Felix of Bilibio, known in Spanish as San Felices de Bilibio, was a 5th-century hermit and holy man in Roman Spain. Felix is mentioned in the ''Vita Aemiliani'', a biography of Saint Aemilianus written by Braulio of Zaragoza in 635–640. He was apparently born in the first half of the 5th century and met Aemilianus late in the same century. He lived at the ''castellum'' of Bilibio in what is today La Rioja. According to Braulio, Rumor had brought emilianusword that a certain hermit named Felix, a most holy man whom he might properly offer himself as a disciple, was then living in Castle Bilibium. He hastened thither and camet oh im and readily offered himself as a servant and was instructed by him how to guid his steps unfalteringly towards the kingdom above. By this deed, I believe he showed us that no one can correctly guide his steps to the blessed life without instruction of his elders. . . Felix came to be regarded as a saint. In 1090, his relics were transferred from Bil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Of Hadrumetum
Saint Felix of Hadrumetum (died c. 434) was a North African Catholic bishop. He was bishop of Hadrumetum, the current Sousse in Tunisia. and died as a martyr during the persecution by the king of the Vandals, Genseric, who was supporter of Arianism Arianism (, ) is a Christology, Christological doctrine which rejects the traditional notion of the Trinity and considers Jesus to be a creation of God, and therefore distinct from God. It is named after its major proponent, Arius (). It is co .... His feast day is February 21. References Saints from the Vandal Kingdom 5th-century bishops 430s deaths {{Africa-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Of Nîmes
Saint Felix of Nîmes is honored as a 4th-century bishop and martyr from Nîmes, France. His feast day is 27 July. There was a see at Nîmes as early as 396, when a synodical letter was sent by a Council of Nîmes to the bishops of Gaul. Jules Igolin writes that Nîmes became the site of a bishopric by the fourth century and that its first bishop was Saint Felix of Nîmes (St Félix), who was martyred around 407AD. Other writers also affirm that a certain St. Felix was Bishop of Nîmes and martyred by the Vandals about 407, but Louis Duchesne Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (; 13 September 1843 – 21 April 1922) was a French priest, philology, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions. Life Descended from a family of Bri ... questions this.Goyau, Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Of Como
Felix of Como (died on October 8, 391 AD) is venerated as the first bishop of Como. He was a friend of Ambrose Ambrose of Milan (; 4 April 397), venerated as Saint Ambrose, was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397. He expressed himself prominently as a public figure, fiercely promoting Roman Christianity against Ari ..., who praised him for his missionary activity and ordained him a priest in 379 and a bishop in 386. When Bassianus of Lodi built a church dedicated to the Apostles in the New Testament, Apostles at Lodi, Lombardy, Lodi, he consecrated it in the presence of Ambrose and Felix. Felix is honored as a zealous pastor of souls. His feast day is July 1. References External linksSaint of the Day, July 14: ''Felix of Como'' at ''SaintPatrickDC.org'' Saints from Roman Italy Bishops of Como 4th-century Italian bishops 391 deaths 4th-century Christian saints Year of birth unknown {{Italy-saint-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Of Girona
Saint Felix of Girona () (died 304) is a Catalan saint. He was martyred at Girona after traveling from Carthage with Saint Cucuphas to Spain as a missionary. Felix was born in Scillium. His feast day is celebrated on 1 August. There is a basilica dedicated to St. Felix in the Catalan city of Girona Girona (; ) is the capital city of the Province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 106,476 in 2024, but the p ..., dating to the early days of Christianity called Church of St. Felix, Girona or Basilica of Sant Feliu. References Catalan Roman Catholic saints Saints from Hispania Province of Girona 304 deaths 4th-century Christian martyrs 4th-century Romans Year of birth unknown {{spain-saint-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix And Nabor
Nabor and Felix ( ) were Christianity, Christian Christian martyrdom, martyrs thought to have been killed during the Great Persecution under the Roman Empire, Roman list of Roman emperors, emperor Diocletian. A tomb in Milan is believed to contain their relics. Legend In the apocryphal ''"Acts of Saints Nabor and Felix"'' (which are imitated from the Acts of other martyrs (such as those of Saint Firmus and Saint Rusticus), the two are said to have been Ancient Rome, Roman soldiers from Mauretania Caesariensis serving under Maximian. They were condemned in Milan and executed by decapitation in Laus Pompeia (Lodi Vecchio). A pair of saints "Nabor and Felix" were also said to have been martyred at Nicopolis (Armenia), Nicopolis in Lesser Armenia in AD 320 alongside SS "Januarius and Marinus". They may be distinct or may have been a merging of the story of the Italian saints with the local couple Januarius and Pelagia. The feast day of Januarius and Pelagia was observed on J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix And Adauctus
Felix and Adauctus ( 303) were according to tradition, Christian martyrs who were said to have suffered during the Great Persecution during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian. The ''Acts'', first published in Ado's ''Martyrology'', relate as follows: Felix, a Roman priest, and brother of another priest, also named Felix, being ordered to offer sacrifice to the gods, was brought by the prefect Dracus to the temples of Serapis, Mercury, and Diana. But at the prayer of the saint the idols fell shattered to the ground. He was then led to execution. On the way an unknown person joined him, professed himself a Christian, and also received the crown of martyrdom. The Christians gave him the name Adauctus (the Latin word for "added"). They were both beheaded. These ''Acts'' are considered a legendary embellishment of a misunderstood inscription by Pope Damasus. A Dracus cannot be found among the prefects of Rome; the other Felix of the legend is St. Felix of Nola; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
