on one Side the Bodies of _Mark_, _Marcellianus_, and _Tranquillinus_; and on the other that of _Felix_, with this Inscription on a Stone that lay by it, _The Body of Saint_ Felix, _who condemned_ Constantius[795]. Hereupon the _Te Deum_ was sung with great Solemnity for the Triumph of Truth: _Felix_ was declared worthy of the Veneration and Worship that had till then been paid him, and a Place was allowed him among the other Saints in the _Roman_ Martyrology, where it is said, that _he was driven from his See for defending the Catholic Faith, by_ Constantius _an_ Arian _Emperor, and privately put to Death at_ Cere, _now_ Cervetera, _in_ Tuscany. _Baronius_, transported with Joy, as he himself declares[796], at so miraculous and seasonable a Discovery, immediately yielded, not to his Antagonist _Santorio_, but to _Felix_, who had evidently interposed; and, taking that Interposition for a satisfactory Answer to all his Arguments, he immediately retracted whatever he had said, and consigned to the Flames whatever he had written in Opposition to _Felix_[797]. Thus, to maintain a chimerical Prerogative, they sport with Truth; betray into Error those who confide in them; and, turning the worst of Men into Saints, honour Vice with the greatest Reward they can bestow on Virtue. [Sidenote: _His Legend proved to be fabulous._] That this pretended Discovery was nothing but a Contrivance to confirm the Martyrdom of _Felix_, and impose upon the World, is manifest; and that the Pontifical, and his Acts, on which his Martyrdom was originally founded, were a no less palpable and gross Imposition, may be easily demonstrated. For, in the first place, _Marcellinus_ and _Faustinus_, who lived in the Time of _Felix_ and _Liberius_ at _Rome_, tell us, in express Terms, that _Felix, who had been substituted to_ Liberius, _died on the 22d of_ November 365[798]. that is, Four Years after the Death of _Constantius_, by whom he is said, in his Acts, and in the Pontifical, to have been martyred. _Athanasius_ assures us[799], and with him agree _Philostorgius_[800], and the Chronicle of _Alexandria_[801], that _Constantius_ was not baptized till at the Point of Death, when he received that Sacrament at the Hands of _Euzoius_, the _Arian_ Bishop of _Antioch_. And yet both the Acts of _Felix_, and the Pontifical, will have him to have been twice baptized before his Death; for it was on this Account that _Felix_ is said to have declared him an Heretic. This Declaration _Baronius_ improves into a solemn Excommunication; and, being become, after the above-mentioned Discovery, a most zealous Advocate for _Felix_, tells us, that the holy Martyr was no sooner placed on the Throne of St. _Peter_, than, changing his Conduct, he separated himself from the Communion of those by whom he had been raised, and boldly thundered an Anathema against the Emperor himself[802]. [Sidenote: _He did not excommunicate_ Constantius.] What