Felix, Apostle to the East Angles
8 March -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Missionaries, page 503
Born in Burgundy at the beginning of the seventh century,
Felix reputedly converted the exiled King Sigebert of the
East Angles and, after the King's return to Britain, was
consecrated bishop and then persuaded by the King to follow
him to effect the conversion of his subjects. He was
commissioned by Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury, to this
work and made Dunwich the centre of his new See. He
established schools and monasteries and ministered in his
diocese for seventeen years. He died in the year 647.