This Point being settled, to prevent all Suspicion of Deceit, or underhand Dealings, Pope _Gregory_ XIII. declared, in 1582. his Intention of having the Cause of _Felix_ impartially examined. [Sidenote: _and his Cause reexamined._] In order to ? this, he appointed _Baronius_, employed at that Time in reforming the _Roman_ Martyrology, to put in Writing whatever could be objected against _Felix_, and Cardinal _Santorio_ to answer his Objections, and collect likewise in Writing all that could be said in favour of his new Client, that the Pope might be thoroughly acquainted with the Merits of the Cause before he came to a final Decision. This Conduct in _Gregory_ has been censured by some over-zealous Divines of the Church of _Rome_, as if he had thereby given the World Occasion to think that he questioned the Infallibility of his Predecessors, who had honoured _Felix_ as a Saint[793]. But _Gregory_ well knew what he was doing, and how the Whole would end. In Compliance with his Orders, _Baronius_ writ a Dissertation, which he himself calls a Volume, and not a short one[794], to prove that _Felix_ was neither a Saint nor a Martyr. As he had Truth on his Side, Cardinal _Santorio_, though a Man of Learning, could neither answer his Arguments, nor offer any thing in so desperate a Cause worthy of himself. He often addressed himself in his Prayers to his Client, intreating him to undertake his own Cause, by suggesting to him what might be alleged in his Defence. But the Client was no less at a Stand than the Advocate. Some other Person therefore must interpose: And whom did the carrying or losing such a Cause more nearly concern than the Pope, since his Authority in a most essential Point was at Stake? This was a nice Affair, and to be managed with great Art and Dexterity. _Gregory_, therefore, having often heard both Sides, in a full Congregation of Cardinals, without betraying the least Partiality for _Felix_, appointed them to meet for the last time on the 28th of _July_, the Eve of the pretended Saint’s Festival, judging that the most proper Time to play off with good Success the Trick, which he had kept the whole Time _in petto_. [Sidenote: _His Sanctity and Martyrdom confirmed by the Discovery of his Body._] The Cardinals met on the Day appointed; _Baronius_ quite silenced his Adversary; the whole Assembly was fully convinced, that _Felix_ was no Saint, no Martyr; the Pope himself seemed to fall in with the rest, and accordingly rose up to declare, as was thought, the unhappy _Felix_ fallen from Heaven; when a great Noise was all on a sudden heard at the Door, and immediately a Messenger entered, who, after uttering these Words, _Holy_ Felix, _pray for us_, acquainted the Pope and the Cardinals, that the Body of _Felix_ was just discovered. Hereupon they all repaired in great Haste to the Church of _Cosmas_ and _Damianus_, where the miraculous Discovery had been made; and there saw, in a Marble Coffin of an extraordinary Size,