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.

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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

_____________________________ 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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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