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Icon of St. Felix III, Pope of
Old Rome (+ 492)
Feast: December 30
Ancestor of St. Gregory the
Great, the Dialogist, Pope Felix III was an indefatigable champion of
the Orthodox Faith. He struggled against Peter Mongo, Peter the Fuller,
and other rogue bishops. He was stern against heresy, causing the false
union of the Orthodox with the Monophysites, which was engineered by
the Byzantine emperor Zeno and the wrong-headed patriarch Acacius of
Constantinople, to fail when he repudiated the Unia documents.
He is often quoted as having
stated, "Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth
is to suppress it, and, indeed, to neglect putting evil men to
shame—when we can do it—is no less a sin than to encourage them."
Holy Father Felix, pray to
God for us!
Icon is a mosaic from the
Church of St. Agnes Outside the Walls (fuori le muri).
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