Pope Saint Felix III
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- Memorial
- 25 February
- Profile
- Born to a Roman senatorial family.
Great-grandfather of Saint Gregory the Great.
Married layman.
Widower.
Priest.
Nothing else is known of his early life.
48th pope.
At the time of his ascension the Eastern Church had been split by the Act of Union of Emperor Zeno, which tried but failed reconcile the Church and Eutychianism.
Felix excommunicated the schismatic bishops and paved the way for re-union in 518, during the reign of Justinian.
He drew up the conditions for the return of African Christians who had apostatized during the Vandal persecutions.
- Born
- at Rome, Italy
- Papal Ascension
- 13 March 483
- Died
- 492 at Rome, Italy of natural causes;
buried in Saint Paul's on the Ostian Way
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
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Catholic Encyclopedia, by Ambrose Coleman
Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
New Catholic Dictionary
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