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SAINTS FELIX AND REGULA, MARTYRS - 11 SEPTEMBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 11th of September WELCOME! SAINTS FELIX AND REGULA, MARTYRS  On September 11 is the memorial of the third century martyrs Saints Felix and Regula of Zurich: A brother and sister who at the time of the famous martyrdom of  Saint Maurice and his companions under Maximian Herculeus, took refuge in Switzerland. THEY HAD TAKEN REFUGE IN SWITZERLAND They were afterwards sought out and cruelly put to death in the neighbourhood of Zurich.  From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate SAINT EXUPERANTIUS  From the 13th century onwards,  Saint Exuperantius has been mentioned along with Saints Felix and Regula, perhaps, as some suppose, because the body of this saint rested in the same church and tomb with them. According to Murer's Heiliges Schweizerland * (Holy Swiss Land), Exuperantius was the servant of the other two saints, who suffered death for the Christian truth at the same time as the...