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Félix de Sutri
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 23 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
257
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Sutri in Tuscany, St. Felix, priest. By the command of the prefect Tuscius, his face was pounded with a rock until he died.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Dominican Martyrology (1955) remembers him on 23 June.
Sources
- The Martyrology of the Order of Friars Preachers (tr. W. R. Bonniwell OP, 1955), 23 June
- Wikidata Q15980402 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.