Biographical note

A Roman by birth and pope from 269 to 274. Felix was the first to condemn the heresy of Paul of Samosata. He is said to have died a martyr under Aurelian, but that martyr may have been a different Felix.

(paraphrased from The Book of Saints : A Dictionary of Persons Canonized or Beatified by the Catholic Church. 5th edition. New York: Crowell, 1966.)