Founding of Grossmünster

Felix and Regula are said to have been members of the Tebaic Legion which had been massacred in Valais at the end of the 3rd Century as a result of it's Christian beliefs. Felix and Regula fled to Zürich where they were subsequently executed. According to the legend, they picked up their decapitated heads and walked 40 paces to the place where they wished to be buried. Later, Charlemagne, on a hunting expedition, pursued a stag from Aachen (in Germany) to Zürich. At the graves of Regula and Felix, Charlemagnes horse stumbled and so Charlemagne decided to found a church which would later become Grossmünster at this site.