Felicius

Holy Martyr Felicius was, according to tradition, a boy of twelve who died a martyr in the first half of the third century.

The account of him is largely legendary and was handed down orally. It is said that when the child showed his wish to become a Christian, his own father killed him. His body, regarded as a "holy body" taken from a Roman catacomb, is kept in the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit at Torre Annunziata in Italy, where his local veneration stands; the sources do not say how it came there, and he does not appear in the Roman Martyrology. It is told that the face in his shrine opens its eyes if a child stops to pray from the heart. His commemoration is kept on 15 November.

He is honoured locally, in the Catholic Church, as a saint of the undivided Church, without synodal canonization.