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Encyclopedia > Felix of Girona

Saint Felix of Girona (Catalan Sant Feliu; (Spanish) San Félix de Gerona) (d. 304) is a Spanish saint. He was martyred at Girona after traveling from Carthage with Saint Cucuphas to Spain as a missionary. Catalan in Europe Catalan IPA: (català ) is a Romance language, the official language of Andorra and co-official in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Valencia (under the name Valencian) and Catalonia. ... Events Major Wu Hu (barbarian) uprising in China; the Hun Liu Yuan establish the Han kingdom, beginning the Sixteen Kingdoms era in China. ... In traditional Christian iconography, Saints are usually depicted as having halos. ... Historically, a martyr is a person who dies for his or her religious faith. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Girona (Catalan) Spanish name Gerona Founded 79 BC Website http://www. ... Bold text Carthage Ruins of Roman-era Carthage For other uses, see Carthage (disambiguation). ...


He is said to have been born at Scillium. His feast day is celebrated on August 1. Scillium is the name of an ancient city and now titular episcopal see in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage. ... The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as that saints day. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ...


External links

  • (Spanish) San Félix de Gerona
Saints Portal


 
 

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