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...dealers promptly called in a neighbor priest, who identified the box as a reliquary and the inscription as meaning Caput Sancti Felicis Martyr (the head of St. Felix, Martyr). When church officials cut the ribbons and opened the box, a yellow skull wrapped in red silk stared out at them...
Scientific tests of cloth and bone proved to the church's satisfaction that it was in deed St. Felix's head. The skull hidden in the other bust was identified as that of his friend and fellow 4th century martyr, St. Nabor. Tradition tells that the saints were Moorish soldiers in the army of the Emperor Diocletian, stationed in what is now Milan in about A.D. 303. Under repeated torture they refused to renounce their Christian faith. At last they were both beheaded, and their remains were eventually buried in Milan's oldest Christian cemetery. Turned over...
...Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips...
...Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips...
...Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips...