Pope St. Felix IV
?–530 CE · Samnium
Felix IV owed his election largely to King Theodoric, who pressed the Roman clergy to accept the candidate he favored after John I's death in custody. A Samnite, Felix governed during the last years of Ostrogothic rule and is remembered for converting two buildings in the Roman Forum into the basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian, whose celebrated mosaics survive. Anticipating a contested succession, he attempted to designate his archdeacon Boniface as successor by handing him his pallium, an irregular act that provoked senatorial objection and indeed led to a schism after his death. His reign reflects the entanglement of papacy and Gothic crown.
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Samnium, a mountainous region of south-central Italy (roughly modern Molise and parts of Campania and Abruzzo). Several popes traced their origins to towns of the Samnite area.
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