Santori had offered to use his influence to have the elderly Felix relieved of the difficult task of questing, but Felix refused. Felix died in Rome in 1587 on his 72nd birthday and was buried in the crypt of the Church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini. Veneration He was beatified on 1 October 1625 by Pope Urban VIII and canonized on 22 May 1712 by Pope Clement XI. He was the first Capuchin friar in the history of the Order to be canonized. His feast day is celebrated on the Calendar of Saints of the Franciscan Order on May 18. Iconography Felix is usually represented in art as holding in his arms the Infant Jesus, because of a vision he is said to have had, when the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him and placed the Divine Child in his arms. Pope John Paul II observed that Felix is "shown bearing the Infant Jesus in his arms because in bearing the burdens of the needy he had carried in his arms the poor Christ himself." Legacy A titular church in Rome is erected in his honor, the Church of San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle. In 19th-century Poland, the Felician Sisters, a religious congregation of Franciscan Sisters of the Third Order Regular, was founded to care for the poor and adopted him as their patron saint. See also Franciscan Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice List of Catholic saints Order of Friars Minor Capuchin References External links San Felice da Cantalice Capuchins 1515 births 1587 deaths Italian Roman Catholic saints Franciscan saints Capuchin saints 16th-century Christian saints People from the Province of Rieti Burials at Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini Beatifications by Pope Urban VIII Canonizations by Pope Clement XI