The feast of St Felix, Bishop and Apostle to the East Angles is the 8th of March. Most of what we know about his life and impact comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and from the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed by the English historian Bede in about 73. Bede wrote that Felix freed "the whole of this kingdom from long-standing evil and unhappiness". Felix was from Burgundy in modern France. Some stories say that he met an exiled Anglo-Saxon prince called Sigeherbt and converted him to Christianity. When Sigeherbt returned to his homeland as King in 631 Felix followed him to a new land and a new people. It is possible that he was a Bishop in Burgundy and then had to leave as a refugee because of political turbulence. He was made Bishop of Dunwich by the Archbishop of Canterbury and sent to convert the people of East Anglia. He travelled round Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk for 17 years doing exactly that, carrying the love of Jesus to those who had not yet heard it and travelling tirelessly through our fields and woods. Bede wrote this of Sigeherbt: "As soon as he began to reign he made it his business to see that the whole kingdom shared his faith. Bishop Felix most nobly supported his efforts. This bishop, who had been born and consecrated in Burgundy, came to Archbishop Honorius, to whom he expressed his longings; so the archbishop sent him to preach the word of life to this nation of the Angles.” He founded at least one school and set up a monastery near Soham to offer a stable presence and a praying presence in the heart of East Anglia- monasteries were both beacons of constancy and engine rooms of mission. He was around in the same century as the burial at Sutton Hoo took place. He died in 647 and was venerated a saint in the 11th century, before the Norman Conquest. The nearby town of Felixstowe is named after him and his relics were kept at Ramsey Abbey after Dunwich was taken by the sea. He first landed in Norfolk at Babingley (near Sandringham) and the statue of a Bishop in Norwich Cathedral to the south of the High Altar is thought by historians to be of him. He continues to have a presence in Norfolk through these echoes, and his life poses a question for all of us: are we, like Felix, willing to follow the call of Jesus into places we might not know, into uncertainty, because of our trust in his voice?