FELIX  , of

Valois (1127-r212), one of the founders of the monastic order of Trinitarians or Redemptionists, was born in the district of Valois, France, on the 19th of April 1127 . In early manhood he became a hermit in the forest of Galeresse, where he remained till his sixty-first year, when his disciple Jean de Matha (116o-1213) suggested to him the idea of establishing an order of monks who should devote their lives to the redemption of Christiancaptives from the Saracens . They journeyed to Rome about the end of 1197, obtained the sanction of the pope, and on their return to France founded the monastery of Cerfroi in Picardy . Felix remained to govern and propagate the order, while Jean de Matha superintended the foreign journeys . A subordinate establishment was also founded by Felix in Paris near a chapel dedicated to St Mathurin, on which account his monks were also called St Mathurins . He died at Cerfroi on the 4th of November 1212, and was canonized .