Sts. Felix and Regula

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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September 11 · Martyr, Virgin

Sts. Felix and Regula

Sts. Felix and Regula

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

September 11
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

September 11
Secondary source · Wikipedia

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Martyr
Virgin

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on September 11 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Notker, and various German and Swiss copies of Usuardus. Authority: — A Passion, late and apocryphal.] S. Felix and S. Regula, a brother and sister, are said to have been advised by S. Maurice to fly to Zurich when persecution broke out. They were overtaken at the head of the Zurich lake, and decapitated.

Feast days

Feast: September 11

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Credits

Image: Altartafel Kapelle Spannweid Zürich Stadtheilige.jpg · Zürcher Veilchenmeister · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Zürcher Veilchenmeister, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.