Saint Félix

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Saint Félix, mythical 9th century fisherman of Villa Mendo, an ancient Roman villa that was rediscovered in the 20th century under sand dunes in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, had left home because he could catch no fish, making his parents mad, and settled in the biggest mount of the area, which is today known as Mount São Félix.

Regularly, says the locaal legend, Saint Félix observed a light in the darkness of the night from the mount. One day, curious, he tries to know the reasons and discovers the body of Saint Peter of Rates. He took the body, and in that place the Romanesque church of Saint Peter of Rates was built and the body kept there up to 1552; in this year the body was transferred to Braga Cathedral, were it is still kept.

Saint Félix has a church in the top of Mount São Félix, and his feast is celebrated in the first sunday of September in the parish of Laundos, where the mount is located, in Póvoa de Varzim.