and abhorred? And yet all this is gravely supposed by _Bellarmine_[806]. Lastly, the Election of _Felix_ is repugnant to what we read in the antient Writers, who all speak of him as an Antipope, and an Intruder. _Optatus_, who lived at that very Time, and St. _Austin_, who flourished soon after, have not allowed him a Place in their Catalogues of the Bishops of _Rome_. _Theodoret_ takes no notice of him in his Catalogue of the Bishops of the chief Cities. St. _Jerom_ and _Prosper_ count _Liberius_ the Thirty-fourth Bishop of _Rome_, and _Damasus_, who succeeded him, the Thirty-fifth; a plain Indication that they did not look upon _Felix_ as lawful Bishop. Among the Moderns, _Onuphrius Panvinius_, in his Lives of the Popes, printed in 1557. some Years before the Discovery of _Felix_’s Body, calls _Novatian_ the First Antipope, and _Felix_ the Second. But his Book was prohibited in 1583. the Year after the Second Canonization of _Felix_. The Writers, who came after, took Warning; and such of them as thought it base to concur in deceiving Mankind, since it was not safe to undeceive them, chose to wave this Subject, but not without giving some broad Hints of what they believed in their Hearts. Thus F. _Labbé_[807], and Cardinal _Bona_[808], take no notice of this _Felix_, but call Pope _Felix_, who was raised to the See of _Rome_ in 485. the Second Pope of that Name. _Felix_ I. was martyred under _Aurelian_ in 274. as we have related elsewhere[809]. F. _Labbé_, at the Death of _Felix_ II. which happened in 492. adds, that he was the Third of that Name, according to _Baronius_[810]. [Sidenote: _Acknowleged as such by some_ Roman _Catholic Writers_.] Had _Felix_ never been canonized, no Man would have been so regardless of his own Reputation as to undertake his Defence; but _Gregory_ having declared him a Saint, and, by such a Declaration, linked his Cause with Infallibility in a most essential Point, the hired Champions of that See found themselves under an indispensable Obligation of entering the Lists; which I need not say they have done to no Purpose. [Sidenote: _The Emperor undertakes the establishing of_ Arianism.]