You're listening to the SSPX podcast. We're happy to present another installment of true heroes.

Stories of the lives of the saints, delivered by Father Thomas Tam. Father is also put together a

video of each of these episodes. You can see the video at SSPX Podcast.com. Now here's Father Tam.

But for me to live as Christ and to die is gain.

Hello, my friends, and welcome to true heroes.

Today we are going to look at the life of St. Felix I and his trial during his reign of about five years during the persecutions.

Let us begin his story.

He was a Roman by birth and succeeded St. Dionysius in the government of the church in 269. Paul of Samasota, the proud bishop of Antioch, to the guilt of many enormous crimes,

added that of heresy, teaching that Christ was no more than a mere man,

in whom the divine word dwelt by its operation, and as in its temple, with many other

gross errors concerning the capital mysteries of the Trinity and incarnation.

Two separate councils were held at Antioch to examine his cause, but by various

arts and subterfuges he escaped condemnation. However, in a third assembled at the same place in

269, being clearly convicted of heresy, pride, and many scandalous crimes, he was excommunicated

and deposed, and Domus was substituted in his place. Paul still maintained himself in the possession

of the Episcopal House and would not leave. The bishop therefore had recourse to the Emperor Aurelian,

who though a pagan gave an order that the house should belong to him,

to whom the bishops of Rome in Italy adjudged it.

St. Felix had before declared himself against that Heresiarc,

for the council had sent the Sonodal letter to St. Dionysius, who being dead,

it had been delivered to St. Felix. It must have been on that occasion that our Holy Pope wrote

to Maximus, Bishop of Alexandria, a learned epistle quoted by the Council of Ephesus, St. Cyril of

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