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Major shrine
Sts. Felix and Regula at Zürich
Feast
11 September
Patronage
Zürich
Wasserkirche church Crypt with 'Martyr stone', the supposed execution site
Felix and Regula (together with their servant Exuperantius) are Coptic Orthodox and Roman Catholic saints. They are the patron saints of Zürich.
Felix and Regula were brother and sister, beheaded in the third century, along with Exuperantius, for converting to Christianity.[1] Their feast day is 11 September in the Gregorian calendar,[2] celebrated on the same day using the Julian calendar (which is the 24th of September Gregorian), the 14th of Tout in the Coptic Calendar.
^Claremont Colleges Digital Library, Retrieved 2023-04-01
^Bischof, Franz Xavier, "Felix and Regula", Religion Past and Present 2011 ISBN 9789004146662
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