ought to be looked upon as fabulous, and _Dionysius_ with 375 more expunged out of the Catalogue of Martyrs; though some of them, namely, _Marcus_, _Priscus_, _Valentine_, and _Quirinus_, are honoured by the Church of _Rome_, as Saints of the first Class, and have filled with their Reliques most of the Provinces of _Europe_. ----- Footnote 467: Basil. ep. 220. & de Sp. Sanct. c. 29. Euseb. l. 7. c. 7. Athan. de Syn. ep. 918. Footnote 468: Basil. ib. Footnote 469: Idem ib. Footnote 470: Athan. pro sent. Dion. Alex. p. 558. Footnote 471: Idem ib. & de syn. 918, 919. Footnote 472: Athan. ib. p. 558, 559. Footnote 473: Bar. ad ann. 263. n. 50. Footnote 474: Euseb. l. 7. c. 27. Footnote 475: Idem l. 7. c. 30. Footnote 476: Basil. de synod. Footnote 477: Euseb. l. 7. c. 24. Footnote 478: Bar. ad ann. 272. n. 10. Footnote 479: Vide Du Pin de antiq. ecc. discip. dissert. 2. p. 156. Footnote 480: Buch. p. 272. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CLAUDIUS II. FELIX, AURELIAN. _Twenty-fifth_ BISHOP _of_ Rome. [Sidenote: Year of Christ 269. Felix _dies a Martyr in the Persecution of_ Aurelian.] _Dionysius_ was succeeded by _Felix_, in whose Time a furious Persecution being raised by _Aurelian_, he may be supposed to have suffered among the rest, since he is distinguished by the Council of _Ephesus_[481], by St. _Cyril_[482], and by _Vincentius Lirinensis_[483], with the Title of Martyr. He presided, according to _Eusebius_[484], _Syncellus_[485], and _Eutychius_[486], Five Years, to which _Baronius_ adds Eleven Months, and Twenty-five Days[487]. He writ a Letter addressed to _Maximus_ Bishop of _Alexandria_, which is quoted by _Cyril_, and the Council of _Ephesus_[488]. The Acts of the Martyrs, who are supposed to have suffered under _Aurelian_, are without all doubt supposititious; for in them frequent Mention is made of the Emperor’s Son, whereas the Writers of those Times tell us in express Terms, that he had a Daughter, but no Male Issue[489]. ----- Footnote 481: Conc. t. 3. p. 511. Footnote 482: Cyr. ib. Footnote 483: Vin. Lirin. c. 42. Footnote 484: Euseb. l. 7. c. 32. Footnote 485: Sync. p. 385. Footnote 486: Eutych. p. 400. Footnote 487: Buch. 272. Footnote 488: Conc. t. 3. p. 511. 851. Footnote 489: Aur. vit. p. 223. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AURELIAN, EUTYCHIANUS, PROBUS, TACITUS, _Twenty-sixth_ BISHOP _of_ Rome. CARUS. [Sidenote: Year of Christ 275. Eutychianus _not martyred_.]