East Anglia Day

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East Anglia Day is March 8th, the feast day of Saint Felix.

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Felix was the first bishop of the East Angles

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and is credited as introducing Christianity to the kingdom of East Anglia. He travelled from his homeland of Burgandy in about 630 and was given a See, possibly Dunwich in Suffolk, by King Sigeberht of East Anglia. His feast day of March 8th has now been recognised as East Anglia Day.

 

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