Felix of Karelia

Holy Venerable Felix of Karelia is commemorated together with the Venerable Euthymius and Anthony of Karelia. The calendar page says that Euthymius, Anthony and Felix began to struggle in the land of Karelia around 1410. Euthymius founded the Karelian monastery of Saint Nicholas. He had barely built a church in the name of Saint Nicholas and a few cells when, in 1419, the Norwegians attacked the monastery, burned the church and killed several monks. Euthymius began the building again.

The noblewoman Martha asked for prayer in the monastery for her sons Anthony and Felix, who had died in 1418 (they were the sons Martha Posadnitsa had by her first husband, Philip Vasilyevich). While inspecting their lands, the young brothers drowned at the mouth of the Northern Dvina and were buried in the Karelian monastery of Saint Nicholas. In life they had been noted for charity. In the handwritten calendars of the Karelian monastery their names were entered among the saints. Over their tombs a chapel was built, and from 1719 a church in honour of the Meeting of the Lord. Euthymius became renowned for his apostolic labours in enlightening the Karelians. He died in 1435, and in 1647 his relics were uncovered. A service exists for the Venerable Euthymius, Anthony and Felix. The commemoration of Euthymius in the Painter's Manual is also on 20 January, because he shares a name with Venerable Euthymius the Great.

Felix is commemorated on 3 June (new style), in the Synaxis of the Saints of Karelia.