churches, monasteries, and
schools. From those words of Bede, that "he set up a school for youth,
in which Felix furnished him with masters," some have called him the
founder of the university of Cambridge. St. Felix established schools at
Felixstow; Cressy adds at Flixton or Felixton. King Sigebert, after two
years, resigned his crown to Egric, his cousin, and became a monk at
Cnobersburgh, now Burgh-castle, in Suffolk, which monastery he had
founded for St. Fursey. Four years after this, the people dragged him
out of his retirement by main force, and conveyed him into the army, to
defend them against the cruel king Penda, who had made war upon the
East-Angles. He refused to bear arms, as inconsistent with the monastic
profession; and would have nothing but a wand in his hand. Being slain
with Egric in 642, he was honored as a martyr in the English calendars,
on the 27th of September, and in the Gallican on the 7th of August.
Egric was succeeded by the good king Annas, the father of many saints;
as, SS. Erconwald, bishop; Ethelrede, Sexburge, Ethelburge, and
Edilburge, abbesses; and Withburge. He was slain fighting against the
pagans, after a reign of nineteen years, and buried at Blitheburg: his
remains were afterwards removed to St. Edmond's-bury. St. Felix
established his see at Dumraoc, now Dunwich, in Suffolk, and governed it
seventeen years, dying in {548} 646. He was buried at Dunwich; but his
relics were translated to the abbey of Ramsey, under king Canutus. See
Bede, l. 2, Malmesbury; Wharton, t. 1, p. 403.[1]

Footnotes:
1. Dunwich was formerly a large city, with fifty-two religious houses
in it, but was gradually swallowed up by the sea. The remains of the
steeples are still discoverable, under water, about five miles from
the shore. See Mr. Gardiner's History and Antiquities of Dunwich.
4to. in 1754.

SS. APOLLONIUS, PHILEMON, &c., MARTYRS.

APOLLONIUS was a zealous holy anchoret, and was apprehended by the
persecutors at Antinous in Egypt. Many heathens came to insult and
affront him while in chains; and among others one Philemon, a musician,
very famous, and much admired by the people. He treated the martyr as an
impious person and a seducer, and one that deserved the public hatred.
To his injuries the saint only answered, "My son, may God have mercy on
thee, and not lay these reproaches to thy charge." This his meekness
wrought so powerfully on Philemon, that he forthwith confessed h