Felix of Burgundy (died 647 or 648) was a saint and the first bishop of
the kingdom of the East Angles. He is widely credited as the man who
introduced Christianity to the kingdom. Felix came from the Frankish
kingdom of Burgundy, and may have been a priest at one of the
monasteries in Francia founded by the Irish missionary
Columbanus—Felix may have been Bishop of Châlons, before being forced
to seek refuge elsewhere. Felix travelled from Burgundy to Canterbury
before being sent by Archbishop Honorius of Canterbury to the kingdom of
Sigeberht of East Anglia in about 630. Upon Felix's arrival in East
Anglia, Sigeberht gave him a see at Dommoc, possibly in Suffolk, either
at Walton, near Felixstowe, or at Dunwich. According to Bede, Felix
helped Sigeberht to establish a school in his kingdom. Felix died on
8 March 647 or 648, having been bishop for 17 years. His relics were
translated from Dommoc to Soham Abbey and then to the abbey at Ramsey.
Several English churches are dedicated to him.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_of_Burgundy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1651:
The Spanish ship San José ran aground onto coasts controlled
by the indigenous Cunco people, who subsequently killed the crew.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreckage_of_San_Jos%C3%A9>
1697:
The Safavid Empire began a four-year occupation of the Ottoman
city of Basra on the Persian Gulf.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_occupation_of_Basra>
1812:
The Boston Gazette printed a cartoon coining the term
"gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry, who approved the
legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Gerry>
1939:
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of
the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_offensive_of_the_Spanish_Civil_War>
1999:
A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an
American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with
murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
attitudinize:
1. (transitive)
2. To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to
pose, to posture.
3. To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming
an affected or exaggerated attitude.
4. (intransitive)
5. To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected,
exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to
excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses.
6. (figurative) To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes
affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attitudinize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths
being in and out of favor.
--Robert Frost
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Frost>