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Regarding the remainder of his life, little is known, and the accounts handed down are contradictary, but he appears to have spent the most of it in retirement at his estate near Porto. He died in 365, and on what grounds it is impossible to determine, was enrolled amongst the number of martyrs, his day being the 22nd of July. In the reign of Gregory XIII the claim of Felix to rank among the popes was discussed, and in order to discover whether any miraculous help was to be found to aid in the decision of the question his sarcophagus was opened, when it is said the words "Pope and Martyr" were found inscribed on his body; but this supernatural testimony is in contradiction to the earlier autorities of the church
text from the 9th edition (1879) of an unnamed encyclopedia
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