He was the spiritual student of Pope Eleuterus and evangelized in Foligno, Spello, Bevagna, Assisi, Perugia, Norcia, Plestia, Trevi, and Spoleto.

[3] He was arrested at the age of 94 for refusing to sacrifice to the Roman gods during the persecutions of Decius.

He was tortured and scourged, and died outside Foligno while being conveyed to Rome for his execution.

In 965 some relics were translated to Minden in Germany; Felician was thus erroneously considered a bishop of that German city (and he had a separate feast day of October 20), an error that entered the Roman Martyrology.

[4] Foligno Cathedral preserves a statue of the saint, of silver and bronze, made by the sculptor Giovanni Battista Maini.