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Her day in the Bodmin Calendar, quoted by William of 

 "Worcester, was March ?• which is the day of S. Felicitas, the 

 Martyr in Mauritanea, in the Eoman Martyrology, commemorated 

 along with S. Perpetua. Another Felicitas, mother of seven sons. 

 Martyrs, is commemorated on July 10. 



S. Felix, Bishop, Confessor. 



The church of Philleigh on the Fal is in modern times 

 attributed to S. Felix, Bishop of Nantes, who succeeded Eumonius 

 about 550. 



But there is no evidence to justify this appropriation ; Bishop 

 Stapeldon'sEegister for 1311, and that of Bishop Stafford for 1405, 

 give S. Filius as the patron. Bronescombe's Register in 1279 

 gives Eglosros, i.e. the Church on the Moor. So also the Taxation 

 of Nicolas IV. 



S. Felix of Nantes died Jan. 8, 582. 



For the patron of Philleigh see Filius. 



S. Feock, Bishop, Confessor. 



Feock is Fiacc, Bishop of Sletty, disciple of S. Patrick. His 

 veneration extends to Brittany. It is certainly a remarkable 

 instance of the intercommunication that existed between Ireland, 

 Britain, and Armorica, that we find the same saint at home in all 

 three. 



The notices that we have concerning the saint in the Irish 

 records relate only to his acts in Ireland, because nothing was 

 known of his life out of his native isle ; and the Breton life we 

 have deals with his acts in Armorica, and passes over his acts 

 in Ireland, or treats them in the vaguest manner. 



Fiacc is introduced to our notice for the first time when S. 

 Patrick accompanied by pious clerics appeared at the convention 

 of Tara, in 455. Precisely the same story is told of him then, as 

 of Ere. Ere had stood up on the previous day, when Patrick had 

 been summoned before Laoghaire at Slane. So, on this occasion, 

 when Patrick appeared before the king and the great assembly at 

 Tara, he was received by aU seated, with the exception of 

 Dabhtach, the king's chief poet, and Fiacc, his nephew, then a 

 lad of eighteen, 



