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Felix III

noun

  1. Saint, died a.d. 492, pope 483–492.


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St. Felix III. a Roman, 24th or 25th Feb. 492 49.

The choice seems to lie between Felix III, Bishop of Rome, 483-492, and Felix IV, 526-530.

Gelasius I., pope from 492 to 496, was the successor of Felix III.

Felix III., pope, was descended from one of the most influential families of Rome, and was a direct ancestor of Gregory the Great.

In this he was greatly helped by the extinction of the western emperor, when his master at Constantinople became the sole representative of the Roman name—that Christian king and Roman prince to whose honour so many Popes from Felix III. onward so vainly appealed.

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