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Felix was born in the year of Our Lord 1127, most likely in the French province of Valois, though a few accounts claim he was related to the royal family of the same name. A deeply pious child, when Felix reached adulthood he renounced all his possessions and retired to the life of a hermit. A young Parisian nobleman and priest, St. John of Matha, heard of Felix’s sanctity and joined him at his forest hermitage, until God sent them an angel in the form of a white stag, with a red-and-blue cross between its antlers. The angel, hearkening back to a vision John had received during his first Mass, directed the hermits to go to Rome and request permission to found a new religious order dedicated to the redemption of captives, especially from the Muslim Turks. Pope Innocent III received a similar vision, and immediately approved the new Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives, known as the Trinitarians, with a red-and-blue cross as their symbol. John served as Superior General, while Felix directed expansion in France after building the motherhouse of the order in the same wilderness where he and John had been hermits. After much hard work for the order, the elderly Felix died in the year of Our Lord 1212. He is also celebrated on November 4th.
ST. FELIX DE VALOIS, confessor.
At Messina, in Sicily, the holy martyrs Ampelus and Caius.
At Turin, the holy martyrs Octavius, Solutor and Adventor, soldiers of the Theban Legion, who fought valiantly for the faith under the emperor Maximian, and were crowned with martyrdom.
At Caesarea, in Palestine, in the time of the emperor Galerius Maximian, the holy martyr Agapius, who was condemned to be devoured by the beasts; but being unhurt by them, he was cast into the sea with stones tied to his feet.
In Persia, the martyrdom of the holy bishop Nersas and his companions.
At Dorostorum, in Mysia, St. Dasius, bishop, who, for refusing to consent to the impurities practised on the feast of Saturn, was put to death, under the governor Bassus.
At Nicaea, in Bithynia, the holy martyrs Eustachius, Thespesius and Anatolius, in the persecution of Maximinus.
At Heraclea, in Thrace, the holy martyrs Bassus, Denis, Agapitus and forty others.
In England, St. Edmund, king and martyr.
At Constantinople, St. Gregory of Decapolis, who suffered many tribulations for the worship of holy images.
At Milan, St. Benignus, a bishop, who, amidst the serious troubles caused by the barbarians, governed the church entrusted to him with the greatest constancy and piety.
At Chalons, St. Silvester, a bishop, who went to God in the forty-second year of his priesthood, full of days and virtues.
At Verona, St. Simplicius, bishop and confessor.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.