Felix

Holy Martyr Felix suffered at Apollonia, in Illyria (today in Albania), together with Saurus the Deacon, Innocent, Peregrinus and others. They are commemorated together on 17 June (new style) and are counted among the early saints of the undivided Church in the western parts of the Empire.

The account says that, shunning the talk and gatherings of their kin, they were denounced by them to the eparch Tripondius. He seized them and, unable to make them renounce Christ, ordered that they be given to torture. Saurus and those with him were handed to Apollonius, the son of the eparch, who tormented them with fire and water until they received the crown of martyrdom.