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Saint Felec or Felix of Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 was an obscure 5th or 6th century British
Brython

Historically, the Britons were the P-Celtic indigenous peoples inhabiting the island of Great Britain south of the river Forth. They were speakers of the Brythonic languages and shared common cultural traditions; the surviving P-Celtic languages are Welsh language, Cornish language and Breton....
 saint
Saint

A saint in Christianity is a human being who has been called to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations, with some, such as the Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans distinguishing between Saints and saints....
 active in the country's south-western peninsula. Saint Felix was said to have had the miraculous gift of being able to communicate with lions, cats, and other feline
Felidae

Felidae is the family of the cats; a member of this family is called a felid. Felids are the most strictly Carnivore of the sixteen mammal families in the order Carnivora....
 creatures. The church at Phillack
Phillack

Phillack is a settlement in Cornwall, UK which since 1935 has fallen within boundaries of the Hayle civil parish. The origins of the name Phillack was traced in the 17th century to the Irish Saint Felicitas, who is said to have founded Phillack church in the 6th Century AD, but a 10th century Vatican Library codex lmentions a Saint Felec of C...
, near Hayle
Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
 is dedicated to Saint Felec (as he appears in a 10th century Vatican
Vatican Library

The Vatican Library , is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of the oldest libraries in the world and contains one of the most significant collections of historical texts....
 codex). Later generations mistook him for the females Saint Felicity (alias Felicitas) and Saint Piala.






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Saint Felec or Felix of Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 was an obscure 5th or 6th century British
Brython

Historically, the Britons were the P-Celtic indigenous peoples inhabiting the island of Great Britain south of the river Forth. They were speakers of the Brythonic languages and shared common cultural traditions; the surviving P-Celtic languages are Welsh language, Cornish language and Breton....
 saint
Saint

A saint in Christianity is a human being who has been called to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations, with some, such as the Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans distinguishing between Saints and saints....
 active in the country's south-western peninsula. Saint Felix was said to have had the miraculous gift of being able to communicate with lions, cats, and other feline
Felidae

Felidae is the family of the cats; a member of this family is called a felid. Felids are the most strictly Carnivore of the sixteen mammal families in the order Carnivora....
 creatures. The church at Phillack
Phillack

Phillack is a settlement in Cornwall, UK which since 1935 has fallen within boundaries of the Hayle civil parish. The origins of the name Phillack was traced in the 17th century to the Irish Saint Felicitas, who is said to have founded Phillack church in the 6th Century AD, but a 10th century Vatican Library codex lmentions a Saint Felec of C...
, near Hayle
Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
 is dedicated to Saint Felec (as he appears in a 10th century Vatican
Vatican Library

The Vatican Library , is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of the oldest libraries in the world and contains one of the most significant collections of historical texts....
 codex). Later generations mistook him for the females Saint Felicity (alias Felicitas) and Saint Piala. His feast day is November 20.

Felec could be equated with Felix, a supposed early king of either Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 or Lyonesse
Lyonesse

Lyonesse, Lyoness, or Lyonnesse is a country in Arthurian legend, birthplace of the knight Tristan.In a later tradition, Lyonesse is identified as a Lost lands lying off the Isles of Scilly, to the south-west of Cornwall....
 according to the Prose Tristan
Prose Tristan

The Prose Tristan is an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance , and the first to tie the subject entirely into the arc of the Arthurian legend....
 (c. 1235) and later Italian
Italian people

The Italian people are a Southern European ethnic group located primarily in Italy and, by virtue of a wide-ranging Italian diaspora, throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australia....
 Arthurian
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
 romances, but this reference is very late. The character is probably mythical, having been confused with the 7th century Saint Felix of Burgundy
Felix of Burgundy

Saint Felix of Burgundy, also known as Felix of Dunwich is a saint widely credited as the man who introduced Christianity to East Anglia in Eastern England....
. Like Lyonesse, Dunwich
Dunwich

Dunwich is a small town in Suffolk, England, within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB.Dunwich was the capital of Kingdom of the East Angles 1,500 years ago and was once a prosperous seaport and centre of the wool trade during the Early Middle Ages, with a natural harbour formed by the mouths of the River Blyth, Suffolk and the River Dunwic...
, the centre of his diocese, was inundated by the sea.