St. Philomena's cult was extended to the Universal Church:
Far more than one solitary papal act by Pope Gregory XVI, the papal Magisterium has repeatedly encouraged the nature and growth of ecclesial devotion to Saint Philomena, in official recognition of her status as a Saint, in public liturgical and devotional sanctions which extended to the universal faith and life of the Church, and thereby manifesting official and essential liturgical and devotional characteristics of her status as a Saint as defined by the Church.
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Also, when Pope St. Pius X, on May 21, 1912, established the Universal Archconfraternity of St. Philomena, she cannot be considered just a "local saint" (
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In 1912, Pope St. Pius X said (
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To discredit the present decisions and declarations concerning St. Philomena as not being permanent, stable, valid and effective, necessary for obedience, and in full-effect for all eternity, proceeds from an element that is null and void and without merit or authority.
He wasn't alone among the saints and blesseds who knew St. Philomena to be a saint (St. John Vianney, Bl. Maria Anna Taigi, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Bl. Pope Pius IX, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, et al.)
What is absurd is that archeological excavations, which should deepen one's devotion to St. Philomena, made John XXIII, like a good Modernist, indeed consider it a "duel between traditional religiosity and modern rationalism."