Sankt Feliks Among the Boughs is the patron saint of horticulture.
Biography[]
In the younger years of Ravka, there was a very cold and hard winter that made the countryside and pastures frozen. Yet in the Tula Valley, the orchards tended by Feliks, a warrior monk, somehow bloomed. It was said that he once had taken the shape of a hawk to fight for King Yarowmir.
As the unforgiving cold continued affecting the rest of Ravka, people started to notice how it didn't seem to affect the Tula Valley and Feliks was accused of witchcraft. The people of the valley refused to help him when the angry mob came after him and killed him by skewering him on the trunk of an apple tree. Without his care, the Tula Valley withered and his people starved.
Legacy[]
Feliks is celebrated in the spring with feasts of quince and apple.[1]
The Hringsa make it appear as if Sankt Feliks had made an apple orchard in Felsted, Fjerda burst into full fruit despite it being winter.[2]
Appearances[]
- The Lives of Saints
- Ruin and Rising (mentioned only)
- King of Scars (mentioned only)
- Rule of Wolves (mentioned only)
Trivia[]
- Sankt Feliks’s martyrdom resembles that of Saint Lawrence in the Catholic tradition, as they were both roasted alive and told their executioners to turn them over so that they would be cooked evenly on both sides.
See also[]
- Order of Sankt Feliks
References[]
- ↑ The Lives of Saints, Sankt Feliks Among the Boughs
- ↑ Rule of Wolves, chapter 2