Felix of Nîmes explained

Saint Felix of Nîmes is honored as a 4th-century bishop and martyr from Nîmes, France. His feast day is 27 July.^[1]

There was a see at Nîmes as early as 396, when a synodical letter was sent by a Council of Nîmes to the bishops of Gaul. Jules Igolin writes that Nîmes became the site of a bishopric by the fourth century and that its first bishop was Saint Felix of Nîmes (St Félix), who was martyred around 407AD. Other writers also affirm that a certain St. Felix was Bishop of Nîmes and martyred by the Vandals about 407, but Louis Duchesne questions this.^[2]

Felix is said to have been succeeded by Sedatus who had served under him.^[3] The first bishop whose date is positively known is Sedatus, was present at the Council of Agde in 506.^[2] Sedatus was prélat of Nimes until c.506AD.^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=LP4UAAAAQAAJ&dq=Felix+of+N%C3%AEmes&pg=PA373 Holweck, Frederick George. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints
2. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11083a.htm Goyau, Georges. "Nîmes." The Catholic Encyclopedia
3. http://www.nemausensis.com/Nimes/episcopa/ListeEvequesNimes.pdf Liste des évêques établie par Georges Mathon pour Nemausensis
4. Sermons jumeaux de Sedatus de Nîmes pour la fête de Noël, par Pierre-Patrick Verbraken, in Revue bénédictine n°88, p. 81-91, 1978.
5. http://biblio.ebaf.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-ISBDdetail.pl?biblionumber=265701 Fiche sur le site de la bibliothèque Saint-Étienne de Jérusalem
6. Le Bréviaire d'Alaric : aux origines du code civil, dir. par Dumézil et Rouche, Paris, PUPS, 2008.
7. http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=12594900 De consolatione peccatoris, attribué à Sedatus de Nîmes