FELIX of Valois, Saint. — Co-founder of the Trinitarian Order, about whom no reliable biographical information is available.
Born ca. 1127 into the royal house of Valois, according to the Order’s Breviary (Paris 1514), he died at Cerfroid on 4 November 1212. He led an eremitical life at Cerfroid (Cervus Frigidus), in the diocese of Meaux. After the foundation of the Order (1194; confirmed by Innocent III’s bull of 16 May 1198), the friar Felix appears in documents of 1203 and 1208 as minister of the convent of the Most Holy Trinity in Marseilles. The papal acts concerning the Order are always addressed solely to St. John of Matha. The cult of Felix, together with that of St. John of Matha, was confirmed by Alexander VII on 21 October 1666 (S. R. Congr., Registrum Servorum Dei, II, pp. 526–27); the feast, fixed on 20 November by Innocent XI (6 May 1579), was extended to the whole Church by Innocent XII (19 May 1694).