FELIX, bishop of Trier, saint. — He was elected at the Council convened in Trier in 385 for the Priscillianist controversy, succeeding Britton. Sulpicius Severus (Dial., III, 13, 15) praises him as a holy man and states that in other times he would have been a most worthy bishop.
Around him, however, the party of the heretics gathered, giving rise to a brief schism. After 12 years of episcopate and struggles, he resigned from the bishopric and retired to do penance in a monastery. He died around 400 and was buried in a church in Trier, which he himself had built, where he was also venerated as a saint. He is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on March 26.
BIBL.: Tillemont, VIII, p. 511; cf.: Acta SS. Martii, III, Paris 1865, pp. 619-23; Fliche-Martin-Frutaz, III, p. 476 ff.: Roman Martyrology, p. 114. Agostino Amore