'''Saint Felix of Burgundy''' is a Saint widely credited as the man who introduced Christianity to East_Anglia in Eastern England. He arrived in England sometime around AD 655 and made his way to Canterbury where he was ordained as a Bishop by the Archbishop_of_Canterbury, Honorius, at the request of King Sigeberht_of_East_Anglia. He is recorded by Bede as having formed his episcopal see at ''Domnoc'' which is widely taken to mean Dunwich on the Suffolk coast, although other historians have suggested an alternative site at Walton_on_the_Naze near Felixstowe, where a church and priory were dedicated to him by Roger_Bigod in 1105. Soon afterwards, he established a church and school at ''Domnoc'' and also founded the abbey of Soham in Cambridgeshire. He was widely seen as being something of a bridge-builder between the Roman and Celtic traditions of Christianity. St Felix is said to have died on 8_March 647 (his feast day). His body was interred at Soham_Abbey but this was pillaged by the Vikings in 869 and his tomb desecrated. During the reign of Cnut his remains were again moved to Ramsey_Abbey on The_Fens. He was succeeded as Bishop by Thomas_of_Jarrow. ==References== *Steven Plunkett (2005). ''Suffolk in Anglo Saxon Times''. Tempus publishing. ISBN 0-752-43139-0 Category:647_deaths Category:Anglo-Saxon_saints Category:French_saints Category:History_of_Essex {{saint-stub}}