But the Two Presbyters _Marcellinus_ and _Faustinus_, who must have been better informed, assure us, that he lived Seven Years after the Return of _Liberius_, and died on the 22d of _November_ 365[786]. [Sidenote: _The Judgment of the Antients concerning_ Felix.] Concerning _Felix_, all the Antients agree, that he was unlawfully elected and ordained; that he communicated with the _Arians_; that, to ingratiate himself with them, and the Emperor, he signed the Condemnation of _Athanasius_; that he was guilty of Perjury in accepting the Episcopal Dignity, having bound himself, with the rest of the Clergy, by a solemn Oath, to acknowlege no other Bishop while _Liberius_ lived; and, lastly, that he strove to keep Possession of the _Roman_ See, after the Return of the lawful Bishop, and to sit in it, together with him, in open Defiance of the Canons of the Church. _Socrates_ adds, that he not only communicated with the _Arians_, but was infected with the _Arian_ Heresy[787]. _Athanasius_ styles him _a Monster, raised to the See of_ Rome _by the Malice of Antichrist, one worthy of those who raised him, and in every respect well qualified for the Execution of their wicked Designs_[788]. [Sidenote: _He is honoured by the Church of_ Rome _as a Saint and a Martyr._] And yet this Heretic, this Monster, this Intruder, or Antipope, is honoured (the Reader will be surprised to hear it, is honoured) by the Church of _Rome_ as a Saint; nay, as a Martyr; and his Festival is kept to this Day, on the 29th of _July_. This Honour was conferred on him in the Ages of Darkness and Ignorance, upon the Authority of his fabulous Acts, and a more fabulous Pontifical, from which his Acts seem to have been copied. In the Pontifical it is said, that _Felix_ declared _Constantius_, who had been twice baptized, an Heretic; and was therefore, by an Order from the incensed Emperor, apprehended, and privately beheaded, with many Ecclesiastics and Laymen, under the Walls of _Rome_, on the 11th of _November_. It is added, that the Presbyter _Damasus_ privately conveyed his Body to a Church, which _Felix_ had built, and there interred it; and that, upon his Death, the See remained vacant for the Space of Thirty-eight Days[789]. [Sidenote: _His fabulous Acts._] In the Acts of _Felix_ we read, that _Constantius_ was rebaptized by _Eusebius_ Bishop of _Nicomedia_; that _Felix_ having, on that Account, declared him an Heretic, he was driven from the See of _Rome_, and _Liberius_ replaced on it; that _Felix_ thereupon retired into the Country, but was brought back by the Emperor’s Orders, and beheaded on the 10th of _November_; that his Body was interred on the 20th of the same Month in a Church, which he had built while he was a Presbyter: And we keep his Festival, adds the Author, on the 29th of _July_[790]. _Anastasius_ has copied the Pontifical Word for Word, except that he pretends _Felix_ to have been beheaded at _Cora_, in the