Felix

Family: Roman Church · Role: former bishop · First appears: Book II · Chap. I · part 1

Life events

c. 627 · Honorius sent Felix to preach Christianity to the Angles.(Book II · Chap. XV)
- With: Archbishop Honorius
- “was sent by him to preach the Word of life to the aforesaid nation of the Angles.”
c. 627 · Felix received the see of his bishopric at Dommoc.(Book II · Chap. XV · 📍 Dommoc)
- “He had the see of his bishopric appointed him in the city Dommoc”
c. 627 · After presiding seventeen years, Felix died peacefully at Dommoc.(Book II · Chap. XV · 📍 Dommoc)
- “having presided over the same province with pontifical authority seventeen years, he ended his days there in peace.”
631 · Sigbert founded a school, assisted by Bishop Felix, to teach boys letters.(Book III · Chap. XVIII)
- With: Sigbert
- “he founded a school wherein boys should be taught letters, and was assisted therein by Bishop Felix”

with Gregory (Felix was Gregory's forefather.) “Moreover Felix, once bishop of the same Apostolic see, a man of great honour in Christ and in the Church, was his forefather.”

sworn: Archbishop Honorius “His exertions were nobly promoted by Bishop Felix, who, coming to Honorius, the archbishop, from the parts of Burgundy, where he had been born and ordained, and having told him what he desired, was sent by him to preach the Word of life to the aforesaid nation of the Angles.”

with Sigbert (Felix assisted Sigbert in establishing and supplying his school.) “was assisted therein by Bishop Felix, who came to him from Kent, and who furnished them with masters and teachers after the manner of the people of Kent”
with Sigbert (Felix assisted Sigbert in establishing the school and furnished teachers.) “he founded a school wherein boys should be taught letters, and was assisted therein by Bishop Felix, who came to him from Kent, and who furnished them with masters and teachers after the manner of the people of Kent”

admired: Aidan “for which reason he was deservedly beloved by all, even by those who differed in opinion concerning Easter, and was held in veneration, not only by less important persons, but even by the bishops, Honorius of Canterbury, and Felix of the East Angles.”
with Aidan (interaction) “for which reason he was deservedly beloved by all, even by those who differed in opinion concerning Easter, and was held in veneration, not only by less important persons, but even by the bishops, Honorius of Canterbury, and Felix of the East Angles.”

with Bede (interaction) “I translated the Book of the Life and Passion of St. Felix, Confessor, from the metrical work of Paulinus, into prose;”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.