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Traditional Catholic Faith => Crisis in the Church => Topic started by: TKGS on September 18, 2017, 07:55:14 AM
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I recently read a short pamphlet by Patrick Henry Omlar entitled, The Unpersoning of Saint Philomena. It is a fascinating pamphlet. After reading how the Vatican eliminated this saint from all lists of saints and martyrs, I did a Google search of the Vatican website. Though Saint Philomena’s name is cited in numerous papal docuмents and allocutions, her name can be found nowhere, in any of its variant spellings, on the Vatican website. This is not to say that the name, Philomena, cannot be found. Unfortunately for the Vatican, there are many women named Philomena who have to be cited in various Vatican docuмents, usually in appointments and activities that some Vatican commission or office makes note of; but, never is the name actually in reference to the saint, herself.
In fact, I found her name in multiple Martyrologies available online which have been copied from hardbound books and made available in electronic formats by secular groups such as Google Books and others. Because these books still physically exist in places, the name of St. Philolmena, Martyr, can’t be completely eliminated, but, as far as the Vatican is concerned, she is an “unperson”; she never actually existed. Even the 1914 Catholic Encyclopedia (available online) began the process to unperson Saint Philomena with an article that essentially claims that she was a myth! These Modernists are even more diabolical than I thought.
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They think she may have been a myth, like St. Christopher. :(
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Little is known about the life of St. Philomena. However, it is believed she was a Greek princess who became a virgin martyr and died at 13-years-old.
Remains of a young lady were discovered in May 1802 at the Catacombs of Priscilla on the Via Salaria Nova with three tiles reading "Peace be to you, Philomena."
All that is known about St. Philomena's life comes from a Neapolitan nun's vision. Sister Maria Luisa di Gesu claims St. Philomena came to her and told her she was the daughter of a Greek king who converted to Christianity. When Philomena was 13-years-old, she took a vow of consecrated virginity.
After her father took his family to Rome to make peace, Emperor Diocletian fell in love with Philomena. When she refused to marry him, she was subjected to torture.
St. Philomena was scourged, drowned with an anchor attached to her, and shot with arrows. Each time she was attacked angels took to her side and healed her through prayer.
Finally, the Emperor had Philomena decapitated. According to the story, her death came on a Friday at three in the afternoon, the same as Jesus.
Two anchors, three arrows, a palm symbol of martyrdom, and a flower were found on the tiles in her tomb, interpreted as symbols of her martyrdom.
The nun's account states Philomena was born on January 10 and was killed on August 10.
Devotion for Philomena began to spread once her bones were exhumed and miracles began to occur. Canon Francesco De Lucia of Mugnano del Cardinale received relics of St. Philomena and had them placed in the Church of Our Lady of Grace in Mugnano, Italy.
Soon after her relics were enshrined, cancers were cured, wounds were healed and the Miracle of Mugnano, when Venerable Pauline Jaricot was cured of a severe heart issue overnight, were all attributed to St. Philomena.
Other Saints began to venerate Philomena and attributing miracles in their lives to the young martyr, including St. John Marie Vianney and St. Peter Louis Marie Chanel.
Although controversy sometimes surrounds the truth behind St. Philomena's life and sainthood, many believers all around the world continue to see her as a miraculous saint, canonized in 1837.
St. Philomena is the patron saint of infants, babies, and youth. She is often depicted in her youth with a flower crown, a palm of martyrdom, arrows, or an anchor.
Her feast day is celebrated on August 11.
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=98 (http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=98)
St. Philomena pray for us.
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For many Saints, the veneration of the faithful finds important foundation in the edifying events of their earthly life. For Saint Philomena, things were different, since there were no records about her short life until her martyrdom in the prime of her life. Therefore, Saint Philomena has ascended to the glory of the Altars not for what we concretely know about her brief earthly existence, but for the countless graces and miracles that God has lavished through her powerful intercession. Because she lived her life focusing on the love of Christ, she became very dear to God’s divine heart. What is missing in the veneration of Saint Philomena, regarding historic records, is abundantly compensated for by the richness and multiplicity of the miracles she performed thanks to her intercession from the day of the translation of her bones from Rome to Mugnano. Rightly, Pope Gregory XVI defined her as the “Thaumaturge of the XIX century”.
Everyone who gets close to her with faith is helped in body and soul. For example, the miracles performed by the Saint in Ars were so many that the pious parish priest John Marie Vianney had to pray that these would diminish in order not to be distracted from the caring of souls.
From the many miracles performed, we have chosen just a few of them which we will divide in two groups. In the first we will place the healings, and although reported by people worthy of trust, these can give rise to some uncertainty for lack of docuмentation. In the second group we will place the extraordinary, and at the same time, widely corroborated by official acts and authoritative recognitions.
http://philomenafamily.org/?page_id=147 (http://philomenafamily.org/?page_id=147)
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http://www.philomena.org/patroness.asp
Saint Philomena revealed Her story to three people who did not know one another and who resided in different parts of Italy. These private revelations unveiled the story of Saint Philomena’s life in great detail and were amazingly identical accounts.
One of the most well-known recipients of this revelation was the Foundress of the Oblates of Our Lady of Sorrows, Mother Maria Luisa di Gesù, a Dominican Tertiary.
On August 3, 1833, after having received the Eucharist, the nun Maria was praying before Saint Philomena’s statue and at that moment felt a strong desire to know the true date of the Saint’s martyrdom. August 10 was the day St. Philomena’s relics had arrived in Mugnano, Italy. This date was significant to the people of Mugnano, but not to those who lived elsewhere. As Maria contemplated this, she closed her eyes and suddenly a gracious and gentle voice came from the direction of the statue, saying:
"Dear Sister, August the tenth was the day of my rest, my triumph, my birth into Heaven, my entering into the possession of such eternal goods as the human mind cannot possibly imagine. That is why my Heavenly Spouse disposed, by His most high decrees that my coming to Mugnano should be on the day which had seen my coming to Heaven! He prepared so many circuмstances which should make my arrival at Mugnano glorious and triumphant; giving joy to all the people, even though the priest who brought me had absolutely decided that my translation should take place on the fifth of the month very quietly in his own house. My omnipotent Spouse impeded him with so many obstacles that the priest, although he did all he could to carry out his plan, could not do so. And so it came about that the said translation was made on the tenth, the day of my feast in Heaven."
Mother Maria was overwhelmed by this and thought she had fallen as prey to this illusion. She took refuge in the Sacrament of Penance, confessing the whole event to her spiritual director. He was not so hasty in disposing of the matter. He proceeded to write to Don Francesco de Lucia Link Out in Mugnano and inquired about the truth of whether or not he originally intended to have the translation on August 5. Don Francesco’s reply confirmed that he indeed encountered many obstacles which detained him from carrying out his plan to arrive in Mugnano on the fifth.
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At that, Mother Luisa’ director granted her obedience to ask St. Philomena other details of her life and martyrdom. Again, Mother Luisa went to the Saint, and begged her not to take any notice of her unworthiness, but to consider that it was a matter of holy obedience, and to reveal more about her life. After that time, there came a day when Maria was alone in her cell and felt her eyes being closed. She heard the gracious voice of St. Philomena. The following account of the life of Saint Philomena is taken from the official account of Fr. Di Lucia’s Relazione Istorici di Santa Filomena and subsequent annals from locutions received by Sr. Luisa di Gesu in August of 1833. These revelations received approval by the Holy Office, (presently the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) on December 21, 1833.
"My dear Sister, I am the daughter of a Prince who governed a small state in Greece. My mother is also of royal blood. My parents were without children. They were idolaters. They continually offered sacrifices and prayers to their false gods.
A doctor from Rome named Publius lived in the palace in the service of my father. This doctor professed Christianity. Seeing the affliction of my parents, by the impulse of the Holy Ghost, he spoke to them of Christianity, and promised to pray for them if they consented to receive Baptism. The grace which accompanied his words enlightened their understanding and triumphed over their will. They became Christians and obtained the long desired happiness that Publius had assured them as the reward of their conversion. At the moment of my birth, they gave me the name of "Lumena," an allusion to the light of Faith of which I had been, as it were, the fruit. The day of my Baptism they called me "Filumena," or "Daughter of Light," because on that day I was born to the Faith. The affection which my parents bore me was so great that they had me always with them.
It was on this account that they took me to Rome on a journey that my father was obliged to make on the occasion of an unjust war with which he was threatened by the haughty Diocletian. I was then thirteen years old. On our arrival in the capital of the world, we proceeded to the palace of the Emperor and were admitted for an audience. As soon as Diocletian saw me, his eyes were fixed upon me. He appeared to be pre-possessed in this manner during the entire time that my father was stating with animated feelings everything that could serve for his defense.
As soon as Father had ceased to speak, the Emperor desired him to be disturbed no longer, to banish all fear, to think only of living in happiness. These are the Emperor’s words, ‘I shall place at your disposal all the force of the Empire. I ask only one thing, that is the hand of your daughter.’ My father, dazzled with an honor he was far from expecting, willingly acceded on the spot to the proposal of the Emperor.
When we returned to our own dwelling, Father and Mother did all they could to induce me to yield to Diocletian’s wishes and theirs. I cried, ‘Do you wish, that for the love of a man, I should break the promise I have made to Jesus Christ? My virginity belongs to him. I can no longer dispose of it.’
‘But you were young then, too young,’ answered my father, ‘to have formed such an engagement.’ He joined the most terrible threats to the command that he gave me to accept the hand of Diocletian. The grace of my God rendered me invincible, and my father, not being able to make the Emperor relent, in order to disengage himself from the promise he had given, was obliged by Diocletian to bring me to the Imperial Chamber.
I had to withstand for some time beforehand a new attack from my father’s anger. My mother, uniting her efforts to his, endeavored to conquer my resolution. Caresses, threats, everything was employed touce me to compliance. At last, I saw both of my parents fall at my knees and say to me with tears in their eyes, ‘My child have pity on your father, your mother, your country, our country, our subjects.’
‘No! No,’ I answered them. ‘My virginity, which I have vowed to God, comes before everything, before you, before my country. My kingdom is heaven.’
My words plunged them into despair and they brought me before the Emperor, who on his part did all in his power to win me. But his promises, his allurements, his threats, were equally useless. He then flew into a violent fit of anger and, influenced by the Devil, had me cast into one of the prisons of the palace, where he had me loaded with chains. Thinking that pain and shame would weaken the courage with which my Divine Spouse inspired me, he came to see me every day. After several days, the Emperor issued an order for my chains to be loosed, that I might take a small portion of bread and water. He renewed his attacks, some of which would have been fatal to purity had it not been for the grace of God.
The defeats which he always experienced were for me the preludes to new tortures. Prayer supported me. I did not cease to recommend myself to Jesus and his most pure Mother. My captivity had lasted thirty-seven days, when, in the midst of a heavenly light, I saw Mary holding the Divine Son in her arms.
‘My daughter,’ she said to me, ‘three days more of prison and after forty days you shall leave this state of pain.’
Such happy news made my heart beat with joy, but as the Queen of Angels had added that I should quit my prison, to sustain, in frightful torments a combat far more terrible than those preceding, I fell instantly from joy to the most cruel anguish; I thought it would kill me.
‘Have courage, my child,’ Mary then said to me; ‘are you unaware of the love of predilection that I bear for you? The name, which you received in baptism, is the pledge of it for the resemblance which it has to that of my Son and to mine. You are called Lumena, as your Spouse is called Light, Star, Sun, as I myself am called Aurora, Star, the Moon in the fullness of its brightness, and Sun. Fear not, I will aid you. Now nature, whose weakness humbles you, asserts its law. In the moment of combat, grace will come to lend you its force, and your Angel, who was also mine, Gabriel, whose name expresses strength, will come to your aid. I will recommend you especially to his care, as the well beloved among my children.’
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These words of the Queen of virgins gave me courage again, and the vision disappeared, leaving my prison filled with a celestial perfume. I experienced a joy out of this world. Something indefinable.
What the Queen of Angels had prepared me for was soon experienced. Diocletian, despairing of bending me, decided on public chastisement to offend my virtue. He condemned me to be stripped and scourged like the Spouse I preferred to him. These are his horrifying words.
‘Since she is not ashamed to prefer to an Emperor like me, a malefactor condemned to an infamous death by his own people, she deserves that my justice shall treat her as he was treated.’
The prison guards hesitated to unclothe me entirely but they did tie me to a column in the presence of the great men of the court. They lashed me with violence until I was bathed in blood. My whole body felt like one open wound, but I did not faint.
The tyrant had me dragged back to the dungeon, expecting me to die. I hoped to join my heavenly Spouse. Two angels, shining with light, appeared to me in the darkness. They poured a soothing balm on my wounds, bestowing on me a vigor I did not have before the torture.
When the Emperor was informed by the change that had come over me, he had me brought before him. He viewed me with a greedy desire and tried to persuade me that I owed my healing and regained vigor to Jupiter, another god that he, the Emperor, had sent to me. He attempted to impress me with his belief that Jupiter desired me to be Empress of Rome. Joining to these seductive words promises of great honor, including the most flattering words, Diocletian tried to caress me. Fiendishly, he attempted to complete the work of Hell which he had begun. The Divine Spirit to whom I am indebted for constancy in preserving my purity seemed to fill me with light and knowledge and to all the proofs which I gave of the solidity of our Faith, neither Diocletian nor his courtiers could find an answer.
Then, the frenzied Emperor dashed at me, commanding a guard to chain an anchor around my neck and bury me deep in the waters of the Tiber. The order was executed. I was cast into the water, but God sent me two angels who unfastened the anchor. It fell into the river mud, where it remains no doubt to the present time. The angels transported me gently in full view of the multitude upon the riverbank. I came back unharmed, not even wet, after being plunged with the heavy anchor.
When a cry of joy rose from the debauchers on the shore, and so many embraced Christianity by proclaiming their belief in my God, Diocletian attributed my preservation to secret magic. Then the Emperor had me dragged through the streets of Rome and shot with a shower of arrows. My blood flowed, but I did not faint. Diocletian thought that I was dying and commanded the guards to carry me back to the dungeon. Heaven honored me with a new favor there. I fell into a sweet sleep, and I found myself, on awaking, perfectly cured.
Diocletian learned about it. ‘Well, then,’ he cried in a fit of rage, ‘let her be pierced with sharp darts a second time, and let her die in that torture.’ They hastened to obey him. Again, the archers bent their bows. They gathered all their strength, but the arrows refused to second their intentions. The Emperor was present. In a rage, he called me a magician, and thinking that the action of fire could destroy the enchantment, ordered the darts to be made in a furnace and directed against my heart. He was obeyed, but these darts, after having passed through a part of the space which they were to cross to come to me, took a quite contrary direction and returned to strike those by whom they had been hurled. Six of the archers were killed by them. Several among them renounced paganism, and the people began to render public testimony to the power of God that protected me.
These murmurs and acclamations infuriated the tyrant. He determined to hasten my death by ordering my head to be cut off. My soul took flight towards my heavenly Spouse, who placed me, with the crown of virginity and the palm of martyrdom, in a distinguished place among the elect. The day that was so happy for me and saw me enter into glory was Friday, the third hour after mid-day, the same hour that saw my Divine Master expire."
What is noteworthy from a historical perspective is not only that this revelation was confirmed by two other individuals unknown to each other (one a priest, the other a historian), but these other historical facts: 1) The Third Century Roman Emperor was known for executing Christians by the use of arrows, exemplified by St. Sebastian; 2) The Third Century Roman Emperor was also known for killing Christians by tying anchors around their necks and throwing them into the water; 3) The reference to "Lumena" -- the name given to her at birth, "Light" -- and then at Baptism, "Fi Lumena," "Daughter of Light," may explain the arrangement of the tiles found at the grave as "Lumena," her first given name, was on the first tile.
The following are historical facts beginning with the discovery of St. Philomena’s tomb in 1802.
May 24, 1802 - A Tomb Is Discovered
Revolution, war, famine, atheism, and persecution had plagued Europe during the eighteenth century, and the Jansenist heresy had touched and withered the spiritual vigor of Catholics. Men cameo believe in their own abilities and the right of any man to think as they did.
In these fierce days of persecution, the primitive Christians were obliged to perform the sacred rites of their holy religion in the subterranean caverns (cryptœ) which extend on every side of the Eternal City, but clustered most thickly at the south-east corner, near the Appain Way and the Ardeatine Way. These caverns, long-believed to have been originally mere sand-pits, arenaria, out of which sand was dug for building purposes, are now proved beyond all doubt to have been constructed at great expense by noble and wealthy Christian families as places of burial. During three consecutive centuries, the Catacombs, as they are called, were places where the faithful had their temples and altars; where they met to pray in common and where the Pontiffs celebrated "The Gathering," or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. They were in constant use also up to the cessation of persecution, and even to 410 A.D as the last resting-place of the Saints and martyrs. In the terrible irruptions of the Goths and Lombards, many of these cemeteries, especially of the Via Salaria, were sacrilegiously plundered of their sacred treasures, and in part destroyed. When happier times ensued - at the commencement of the eighth century and culminating with Pope St. Paschal - all the relics of the Popes and principal martyrs and confessors which had hitherto lain in the Catacombs were removed for greater safety to the churches of Rome. As time passed, the Catacombs were abandoned and in great part closed, and the knowledge of them was lost altogether, until they were accidentally re-discovered by some laborer in the year 1578. Even then they seem to have been left unguarded, and permission was given to the faithful to take away whatever relics they chose.
Painting of Saint Philomena commissioned by Saint John Vianney and is housed in the Shrine of Ars, France. Vianney reported that this is the exact likeness of Saint Philomena, who said that she appeared to him.
Painting of Saint Philomena commissioned by Saint John Vianney and is housed in the Shrine of Ars, France. Vianney reported that this is the exact likeness of Saint Philomena, who said that she appeared to him.
By a special providence of God, the sacred tomb of St. Philomena was left unnoticed and undisturbed until it pleased Him in these later days to reveal Her glory to the entire world.
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When asked by Ms. Mary Philomena Mulcahy if Saint Philomena was an authentic Saint, Padre Pio affirmed that Saint Philomena, to whom he had a great devotion, "was indeed in heaven and that any confusion about her was the work of the devil because Saint Philomena was a source of faith to many." Padre Pio’s family was very devoted to Saint Philomena and, in fact, his sister was named Philomena.
http://philomena.it/PadrePio2014.html
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- Miracles certified in published works on the Saint’s life, but of which the direct corroboration is unknown.
- a – Healing of an ulcer on the hand which turned into cancer of a Neapolitan woman , while the body of Saint Philomena was in Naples in the house of Antonio Terres.
In Naples, a noble woman had been sorely tried by her body; a hand ulcer had turned into cancer. Amputation was urgently required. All preparations had been carried out for the operation. By the evening, the pius woman, recalling that the early Christians would place on the affected part of the body some kind of relic of a Martyr to heal it, she applied on her horrible sore a small particle of Saint Philomena’s relics. The next morning the surgeon, uncovering with caution the patient’s hand, realized with wonder that the ulcer was no longer there. The hand was rosy and healthy like a baby’s. A verbal process of this healing was written down by the public notary Antonio Montuori.
b – Healing of a crippled boy, eight days after the translation of 1805.
This is how this miracle is described by Msgr. Gennaro Ippolito, Rector of the Sanctuary.”In the last of the eight days during the celebration of the Solemn Mass, at the moment the Sacred Host was raised, suddenly beside the widow Angela Guerriero, from the village of Mercogliano, and her only son, Modestino of about ten years of age crippled in such a way, that he could not even stand, stood up. His mother had brought him to the church with the hope of having him healed. The mother, watching him walking quickly to reach the urn, full of joy, began shouting miracle! miracle! All the people who knew the boy and his inability to walk repeated the same words. Then the boy was taken all around the village, walking and acclaiming by himself. A crowd of incredulous people were following him.”
http://philomenafamily.org/?page_id=147 (http://philomenafamily.org/?page_id=147)
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b – Healing of a crippled boy, eight days after the translation of 1805.
This is how this miracle is described by Msgr. Gennaro Ippolito, Rector of the Sanctuary.”In the last of the eight days during the celebration of the Solemn Mass, at the moment the Sacred Host was raised, suddenly beside the widow Angela Guerriero, from the village of Mercogliano, and her only son, Modestino of about ten years of age crippled in such a way, that he could not even stand, stood up. His mother had brought him to the church with the hope of having him healed. The mother, watching him walking quickly to reach the urn, full of joy, began shouting miracle! miracle! All the people who knew the boy and his inability to walk repeated the same words. Then the boy was taken all around the village, walking and acclaiming by himself. A crowd of incredulous people were following him.”
http://philomenafamily.org/?page_id=147
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the name of St. Philolmena, Martyr, can’t be completely eliminated, but, as far as the Vatican is concerned, she is an “unperson”; she never actually existed.
The Vatican II popes canonized more saints than all the prior popes of 1960 years PUT TOGETHER! They ended up even canonizing themselves. Yet they remove St. Philomena?
"By their deeds you shall know them".
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c – Healing of a blind girl
It’s once again Ippolito reporting this; In the vespers of the same day, the eighth day after the translation of 1805, the size of the crowd that attended was incredible, the majority not being able to enter the church, was forced to stay outside. During the preaching of Fr. Antonio Vetrani, Missionary of the Congregation of St. Peter in Cesarano in the Mugnano area, a woman from Avella was allowed into the church with her little girl of about two years, blind because of smallpox and considered incurable by the main doctors of Naples.
As soon as that mother was close to the sacred urn, she applied the oil from the lamp on her girl’s eyes who, in that instant, recovered her eyesight (fig. 9).
Both mother and daughter started to shout, the daughter with happiness, the mother with faith; Instantly, inside and outside the Church the news of the miracle began to spread, and the crowd where in turmoil with curiosity! There was a man present who had the reputation of a non believer. Struck by the marvel he had witnessed, he offered spontaneously to help financially with the erection of the chapel that for some time had been planned to be built for the Saint’s cult. Here, we have two miracles, the opening of the eyes of an innocent girl, and the opening of the eyes of the soul in a sinner”.
http://philomenafamily.org/?page_id=147
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d – Healing of the canonical Msgr. Don Joseph Stella, assistant of the Archbishop of Imola, Msgr. Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, later Pius IX.
It is once again the Rector of the Sanctuary, Fr. Gennaro Ippolito, who describes this; The Canonical Msgr. Don Joseph Stella, assistant of the Archbishop of Imola Msgr. Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti (today gloriously reigning Highest Pontiff Pius IX), great devotee of Saint Philomena and propagator of her cult in that city in the year 1834 was ready to close his eyes for the last time and to meet his maker, when looking at a picture of the saint that he had near his bed, he sincerely invoked her. The Divine Protectress with a particular sign informed him that she was donating him full recovery. Healed, he decided to go in person to the Sanctuary in Mugnano to give thanks to the Saint and remained for six days to fulfil this duty.
His health remained perfect, he provided important services to the reigning Highest Pontiff Pius IX for over 40 years, and in the month of July 1870 occupying the post of wardrobe valet to the Pope at a respected age he passed on to a better life, .
http://philomenafamily.org/?page_id=147
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e – Resurrection from the death of an eight year old boy.
It is still Ippolito that writes; “Rosa Di Lucia, noblewoman of Mugnano cousin of Fr. Francesco D., Caretaker of the Sacred Body of Saint Philomena, one day while holding one of her sons only eight years old who had been ill for a long time saw him passing away in her motherly arms. After having wet the cold corpse with the warmest of tears, and having made sure that there was trace of life, animated by true faith, she took the dear image of the Thaumaturgic Saint, and placing it on the small body of her deceased son, with loud screams and uncontrollable crying she kept begging for the grace of life; and the son like someone waking up after a deep lethargic sleep, rose again to new life and gave himself to the love of his mother”.
http://philomenafamily.org/?page_id=147
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All these posts about the miracles from the intercession of Saint Philomena are great, but they don't answer the problem that the Modernist Vatican has completely eliminated her from it's archives. As far as your pope is concerned, she never existed.
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All these posts about the miracles from the intercession of Saint Philomena are great, but they don't answer the problem that the Modernist Vatican has completely eliminated her from it's archives. As far as your pope is concerned, she never existed.
It's pointless dude. There's like a degree of blindness that seems to be getting more pronounced as time passes. My pseudo ex's folks had it, she got it from them, my Protestant family has it, and it seems like this dude has it.
I never really understood the saying "There are none so blind..." before running into this kind of thing.
It's like if it were a baby's severed head held right in front of their face, they'd just carry on like they're Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music".
It is bizarre.
I just pointed out how his "pope" said that it is the communists who think like Christians IF anyone does, and he just strolled on like nothing was said, and it impacted what was being discussed, which he also acted as if it was something else, not at all.
Really, really eerie weird.
It's like "denial" to the degree of a perpetual psychotic episode, or some kind of Pollyanna variety of Solipsism.
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There is a statue of St Philomena in our SSPX church.
A little over 20 years ago I got a serious bout of depression. the doctor said it was Adrenalin exhaustion that caused it (35 years working with only two weeks holidays to get married). I became aware of dreadful tinnitus, noise in the inner ears that never goes away. I read in a newspaper that ѕυιcιdє is greatest in tinnitus sufferers. I remember telling some that ѕυιcιdє was not an option for me, as I was a Catholic. That got a laugh or two.
For five years I lived in my ears. My mind was in there listening while the rest of me was in he world. I heard of St Philomena, that she helped hopeless cases. I knelt before her statue and asked if she could help me.
I cannot remember how soon after my request I began to cope with my tinnitus. My problem I came to realise was an awareness problem. I was listening to the noise, looking for it and allowing it to dominate my mind. After all those years I could not believe how it went into the background, so much so that it disappeared for most of the time. I will forever be grateful to St Philomena for my 'cure.' The tinnitus is still there, but I no longer listen to it, look for it, or am aware of it. At times it changes tone now and frightens me somewhat, but soon disappears. Oh you have no idea what St Philomena did for me.
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There is a statue of St Philomena in our SSPX church.
A little over 20 years ago I got a serious bout of depression. the doctor said it was Adrenalin exhaustion that caused it (35 years working with only two weeks holidays to get married). I became aware of dreadful tinnitus, noise in the inner ears that never goes away. I read in a newspaper that ѕυιcιdє is greatest in tinnitus sufferers. I remember telling some that ѕυιcιdє was not an option for me, as I was a Catholic. That got a laugh or two.
For five years I lived in my ears. My mind was in there listening while the rest of me was in he world. I heard of St Philomena, that she helped hopeless cases. I knelt before her statue and asked if she could help me.
I cannot remember how soon after my request I began to cope with my tinnitus. My problem I came to realise was an awareness problem. I was listening to the noise, looking for it and allowing it to dominate my mind. After all those years I could not believe how it went into the background, so much so that it disappeared for most of the time. I will forever be grateful to St Philomena for my 'cure.' The tinnitus is still there, but I no longer listen to it, look for it, or am aware of it. At times it changes tone now and frightens me somewhat, but soon disappears. Oh you have no idea what St Philomena did for me.
Here in Texas the SSPX also has a statue of St. Philomena in both the Queen of Angels parish and in their St. Michael's parish.
My Dad also has devotion to St. Philomena, and all I can say is NEVER underestimate her! She is known as a Saint of the Impossible for a reason.
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I have to thank St Philomena for helping to keep my children’s minds and hearts pure. They all wear the Philomena Cord and we have our daily and nightly prayers that include asking for her intercession. (We also say the Three Hail Mary’s twice a day)
My teenage son has been wearing her cord for over five years and has a devotion to her as well. He is not your typical teenage boy that is glued to a cell phone or internet so that of course helps with purity too.
Thank you St Philomena and Our Lady! :pray:
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All these posts about the miracles from the intercession of Saint Philomena are great, but they don't answer the problem that the Modernist Vatican has completely eliminated her from it's archives. As far as your pope is concerned, she never existed.
Without access to the archives ourselves there is little can be done. Plus, she may have not been eliminated from it, only her history hidden away and eventually it will all be revealed in the future.
Reminds me of the story of Our Lady of Good Success Statue in Quito Ecuador..years ago when the Convent was under persecution during war, one of the nuns hid away the Infant Jesus Statue (the original one that was in Mary’s arms) somewhere whithin the walls of the Convent. He still has not been found, so they had replaced the original Statue with a temporary one for the meantime.
Someday the real Statue will resurface and he’ll take his place in the arms of his mother again :incense:
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f –A fire distinguished due to the presence of a Saint Philomena image which does is untouched by the flames (miracle similar to the one of the house of the Saint John Vianney, Curé of Ars, where the fire stopped just in front of the reliquary of the Saint).
Monsignor Joseph Segna, Bishop of Marsi, wrote this to the Rector of the Sanctuary of Mugnano; “We have had another miracle happening in my area of Poggio Ginolfo, where there has been devotion for Saint Philomena and was displayed to the public in May 1834 with the solemnity an image of the Saint. On November 8 a fire broke out in the fireplace of Giuseppe Laurenzi. It was inextinguishable by human hands. It was about midday and threatened the houses nearby, causing screams and cries from the frightened neighbours. The consternation was so great that the church bells were rung to gather the people and protect them from danger. Although water and mud was being used, and it was raining, the ruinous flame became hungrier and more terrible. Then a general cry arose from the crowd with these words; “Bring the image of Saint Philomena”. Immediately the priest, my nephew Fr. Cosma Segna, was called. He quickly took a paper image that he had in his domestic oratory, rushed over with incredible speed, went into the house passing among the swarming crowd, and said; “Here is Saint Philomena”, and publicly he threw the image in the burning fireplace, and as if pushed by the wind she was seen rising high above the flames, inside the chimney, and she disappeared from everyone’s view. After watching this all the onlookers were anxious and alarmed, and each one of them thought about transporting their belongings out of their homes, so that the fire would not destroy and incinerate them because it looked as if it would expand to the whole village. When against all expectations after about no more than five or six minutes suddenly the threatening flame was extinguished, and everyone present saw the sacred image of Saint Philomena return. It came down the chimney like a dove of peace fluttered across the room and settled on the left side of the fireplace, untouched and unaltered by the fire like a trophy victorious against the voracious flame. The observing crowd exclaimed full of admiration; “Oh, great miracle of Saint Philomena” and with highest veneration everybody tried to kiss the prodigious image.”
The prodigies here described are only a small part of the ones reported in the various works about Saint Philomena. Ippolito’s volume alone describes over one hundred of them that, in the majority of cases, show true characteristics of miracles.
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- Miracles corroborated by official acts and authoritative recognitions from Popes, Bishops, and important people.
a – Healing of the lawyer Alexander Serio. His gift of the Altar and the prodigy of the marble table miraculously repaired.
This miracle is also described by Ippolito; “Another great devotee of Saint Philomena was a certain Neapolitan lawyer, D. Alessandro Serio, who in the year 1814 was in Mugnano with his wife, Lady Giovanna Fusco, for their holidays. He had been suffering for many years from a serious internal illness, and through the intercession of the Saint he was hoping for a full recovery. For this reason he prayed with fervor at the Saint’s altar. This continued for eight days, when he was suddenly struck by severe abdominal pains, and he was instantly taken home and placed in bed. The illness grew so much worse, that in a few hours he had little time left to live, without the possibility of confession. Concerned by so much pain, his spouse took a frame with a picture of the Saint, and placed it on her husband’s body, begging for the grace of seeing him pass away at least with the Holy Sacraments, and promising to have an altar in the chapel of Saint Philomena made of marble. In that instant, Serio’s responsiveness returned, and he was completely out of danger. During his sacrament of confession, the deadly pain disappeared completely, and with it the old disease.
It the meantime the work for the marble altar started (fig. 10) in favor of the grateful mercy received by the Serio family, and the Saint marked this work with particular prodigy. The required materials were obtained, all made of the finest marble and rare stones. The work began and had already reached of the stage of positioning the top, made of one single marble slab, when the marble worker D. Giovanni Cimafonte, grooving for the positioning of the sacred stone, cracked the marble slab in the middle with the first blow of the chisel for three quarters of the slab length.
At this unexpected misfortune the craftsman was worried not much for his reputation, but more for his job, since he believed that it was impossible to continue the work, expecting with the successive blows that the remaining intact part of the slab would break too. With the use of an iron bar, he even tried to reinforce the side where the crack was, which was wider than a finger, and he tried to tighten it as much as he could; he continued with his work with the help of drills, and the sacred stone was slotted in the appropriate groove. It still had the crack, more than a finger wide, but then another prodigy. While the hand of the worker filled the crack, the invisible hand of the Saint restored the marble, joining both parts and leaving only a very thin line to evidence the miracle, so that it looked like a natural marble vein. This prodigy took place in a public church in front of many citizens. The news travelled throughout the whole village and one of the witnesses took the slab from the table that was first cracked and then restored, showed it to the crowd, and hitting it with a sledge hammer let the crowd hear the sound that was that of a whole marble. In memory of this portentous event, a marble inscription can be read by the visitor who enters that Sanctuary. It is situated on the left wall at the entrance. It reads; Altare quod hoc in Templo visitur ante Corpus Sanctae Christi M. et V. Philumenae valde est venerandum; in eius enim erectione manu arteficis sacra mensa in medio fracta est; virtute omnipotentis refecta ac integra restituta multitidine civium astante atque etiam digitus Dei opus suum signavit linea suboscura ut cernitur. Hoc factum est anno divinae Reparatonis MDCCCXIV.”
-The altar that can be seen in this church, in front of Saint Philomena’s body Martyr of Christ and venerable Virgin, during its erection the sacred table was broken by the hand of the artist and by the hand of the Almighty restored in one piece in front a crowd of citizens, and the work of God’s finger left, as it can be noted, a dark line. This happened in the year of the Redemption 1814-.
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b – Miracle of the sweating of Saint Philomena’s statue.
In 1806 Cardinal Louis Ruffo Scilla (1750-1832), Archbishop of Naples (1802-1832), donated a wooden statue of Saint Philomena (fig. 11) to the Sanctuary containing in its chest cavity a reliquary which enclosed a small bone particle belonging to the Martyr, as reported by Ippolito.
This statue is brought every year in procession through the streets of Mugnano, on the second Sunday of August. On August 10, 1823, during the procession, the statue became heavier. The next day, the statue sweated fragrant “manna” for three consecutive days. Regarding this, there are two public records; one signed by the Vicar Foraneo and by 17 priests of the clergy of Mugnano, the other by the Mayor, the Chancellor, and from the Members of the Council. These records were deposited in the municipal archive and in Our Lady of Grace Church in Mugnano. In memory of this, a marble inscription was placed in the Church of Our Lady of Grace.
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– Miracle in the Church of the Cesarea in Naples of the statue of Saint Philomena’s facial transformation.
In June 1925 the Charitable Miss Maria Cementano, accompanied by her friend Maria Compare, went to the studio of the famous artist Louis De Luca and, with sincere and courageous words, she exposed her fervent wish of a statue of Saint Philomena for the Church of the Cesarea. It was to be made of paper mâché and the artist had to create only the hands, head and feet, since the young devotee wanted to dress the Saint personally with a white dress and a purple cloak.
At first he refused saying that, as he was a famous artist, he was used to making his artistic shapes in bronze and marble, not paper mâché. He wanted to give full expression and life to his figures. He did not just make mutilated heads and stumps of Saints. Later on, convinced by the insistence of the young woman, he accepted.
He fell in love with his subject; he lived that period of virginity and martyrdom in the intimacy of his heart and he completed the statue, which was presented on August 13, 1925. Some days later, De Luca was no longer happy with his work. While everybody praised it, he felt the need to correct it. For a full month he relived his Saint Philomena and only on September 30 was the statue was returned in the Sanctuary of the Cesarea.
The first of October was the important vigil. In the morning there was a very animated discussion between Louis De Luca and Msgr. Fabozzi, Superior of the Sanctuary. The latter believed that the statue was a masterpiece; perfect features, beautiful expression, but the people would not recognize in this statue their Saint, because De Luca had decided to represent an agonizing young girl, giving the image a cadaverous look. The eyelids down, the lips a purplish colour. This statue represented a dying person, perhaps a heroine, but certainly not a martyr. On that lovely face there was no rosy glow, or trace of mystic passion.
The reason for which the statue had “no life” was simple; the artist did not have spiritual sensibility. Msgr. Fabozzi tried to explain to De Luca that Saint Philomena was a martyr and that martyrs, in the supreme moment, they are luminous, they are inflamed with love of God; they are never as alive as in the instant in which they die.
De Luca did not want to listen to any of this. The barrier between them was not about a different concept of art, but a different concept of faith.
The work was temporarily placed in the sacristy. During that day it was seen by many priests, nuns, ladies of charity and they all shared the same opinion; she was nice, she was beautiful but she looked like a cadaver. The same young ladies who had ordered the statue were unhappy and tried to persuade the artist to colour her up a little, but when they heard that this would have requested more time, they decided to leave it as it was. Disappointed, they asked De Luca to personally place the purple cloak artistically on the statue.
The next day was the 2nd of October, feast of the Angels, and Msgr. Fabozzi was celebrating the Mass in their honour, where there was an altar dedicated to them. When Fr. Di Millo, who was to celebrate the next Mass, arrived he did not think it was convenient to put his clothes in the sacristy during the celebration of a religious service and, contrary to his usual behaviour, went in the last room.
Driven by curiosity he lifted the newspapers that covered the statue and he too was struck by that deathly colouring. A short while later De Luca went in and he suddenly came out very agitated, trembling, emotionally moved. Turning to Msgr. Fabozzi he asked who had modified the statue.
The priest told him that nobody had retouched it, but seeing that he was not convinced, they both went into the last room. He too was astonished. The image was no longer the same. The features had remained the same, but on them an unknown hand had spread an extremely delicate rose shade. It was subtle pink, virginal. The colour was not uniform, only the cheeks, the nostrils, the chin, even under the nails had this astounding shading.
These were not patches, but admirably artistic. Particularly surprising were the lips; the purplish color had disappeared, and there was now a pinkish color not uniform but full of different shades and tones. The statue was fully dry, as if it had been painted over fifteen days before. As a matter of fact, the hair that De Luca had placed the week earlier was still “sticky”, while the face, painted now by a mysterious brush, was completely dry. They tried to give little publicity to the event because they wanted to study the surprising phenomenon.
In the daily newspaper ,Roma, there was an article that suggested a check to verify this. If De Luca still had left-overs of the colors used for the statue, why not paint a head, place it in the same environmental conditions and then verify after a few days what happened?
The experiment was immediately accepted and was carried out with scientific standards. The head of a statue was painted with the left-over of the colors used by De Luca, using the maximum precaution. A few days later, the seals were removed, the result was verified; the head had remained yellow, pale, cadaverous.
At this point somebody talked about chemical reaction. De Luca was questioned and they asked him what materials he had used for the painting. He declared that he had used yellow clay and silver grout, adding some amber and some green clay. Mixing the yellow clay with the bleak silver grout, he had achieved a pale colour, nearly cadaverish. He gave three coatings of this paint to the work, leaving some days between each one of them to allow for each coating of color to dry properly. With such technical and chemical elements it was impossible to have a reaction so anomalous to generate a pinkish colour. What had happened was supernatural!
As a matter of fact, the members of the Artistic Club of Naples sent a report to the Ecclesiastical Authorities, signed by the Court of Enquiry, in which it was declared that, in those environmental conditions, a chemical reaction could not have produced the known phenomenon.
These, we have to admit, were very brave people, since to state the truth in a century pervaded by sceptics is a real act of courage. We report exactly the Sentence of the Canonical Process;
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So, with all these miracles attributed to Saint Philomena, poche, why do you suppose that your church has completely suppressed her veneration?
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On January 30, 1926 with written order to us, we the judges delegated by his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Naples, Msgr. Alessio Ascalesi, to institute the regular canonical process on the extraordinary event of the coloration, deemed as prodigious, of an artistic statue of the Famous Virgin and Martyr Saint Philomena made for venerating in the Sanctuary of the Cesarea in Naples. Having the Canonical Process been instructed of the miracle of the coloration of the face of the Statue of the Virgin and Martyr Saint Philomena, having always been present in all the sessions one or both of the faith Promoters the Most Ill and Most Rev. Canonics Don Gennaro and Don Carmine, in Curia legitimately constituted; and after having held the same Process, according to the canonical rules, we hereby declare, after having heard the same faith promoters, our opinion contained in the following verdict;
Considering that the mentioned coloration in all its artistic detail happened before the eyes of the artist, reluctant to admit a supernatural event, actually rather irritated, at first, about the undeniability of the coloration that had happened in a few moments;
Apart from this first witness providentially present at the phenomenon, a further eight witnesses have been cited and minutely questioned which had, among others, seen the first obstinately cadaveric colouring, and then the above-mentioned artistic coloration;
The evidence produced to show the non-existence of a natural process for that coloration, is varied and significant, as shown by the full debate; the instantaneity, for example, the preservation of the simulacrum in the primitive state with no human hand that could have touched it, the artistic inspection carried out on behalf of the artist by competent people with the hope to reproduce, if possible, with the same details the same phenomenon here verbally states that human resources could not have produced these changes;
Invited by our Most Reverend Curia Archiepiscopal, two skilled and sworn professors whom as judge delegates have carried out a survey in the Sanctuary of the Cesarea, in order to give their artistic-critical opinion on the phenomenon, these people without having any prejudices or exchanged their views between themselves, have reported in different papers and stated their personal judgement which -considering all circuмstances- confirms that it would be impossible to naturally reproduce such a phenomenon;
Finally,the course of this prodigious event in all its individual particulars reveals a special intention, the Illustrious Virgin and Martyr at first wanted only the artist as the witness of that instantaneous action, in which she donated the really incomparable grace of reconciliation to God, the artist and then she called many more witnesses to follow the event, as if giving to everyone the pledge for future graces.
We believe, declare and affirm in our orderly delegated Authority to be truly witnessing a supernatural event and therefore a proper miracle operated by her”.
Naples, 27 August 1926
In faith, we undersign
Card. A. Ascalesi, Archbishop
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d – Miracle of the multiplication of the Saint’s relics in the hands of Msgr. Anselmo Basilici, Bishop of Sutri and Nepi.
Msgr. Anselmo Basilici, Bishop of Sutri and Nepi, was a tireless promoter of the cult of Saint Philomena. Following his requests, Pope Gregory XVI, in the year 1834, arranged that the Sacred Congregation of Rites examine the reasons to concede the Indult of the Mass and Saint Philomena’s Office in various Dioceses, which was subsequently granted.
Msgr. Basilici had received a few relics from Mugnano and wanted to divide them between the Churches of his Diocese. He wanted to please all the applicants, but he did not know how. At this point the relics prodigiously multiplied themselves, as he later declared with one of his own certificates, when he came to visit the Sanctuary of Mugnano on May 31, 1835.
He also declared that he received requests about relics from the Cardinals Odescalchi, Falzacappa, Wels and Pandolfi, as well as several Bishops, to promote the devotion, and that he managed to meet the demands of everybody. On June 16, 1835, Gregory XVI received in audience the same Bishop, to be informed, with docuмented report, on this prodigious event. The Pope, moved, ordered Cardinal Pedicini, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites to verify the matter.
The next day (June 17) in absence of Card. Pedicini, the division of the dust belonging to the sacred Body of Saint Philomena was solemnly carried out by Card. Galeffi, Vice Prefect, in front of many witnesses who confirmed the prodigy. (Cf. DE LUCIA, Relaz. Ist., vol. III, p. VI).
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So, with all these miracles attributed to Saint Philomena, poche, why do you suppose that your church has completely suppressed her veneration?
I don't know if I can answer for other people. I only want to praise God by posting the miracles of His saints.
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I don't know if I can answer for other people. I only want to praise God by posting the miracles of His saints.
What part of "suppressed" don't you understand P?
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What part of "suppressed" don't you understand P?
When God chooses to do a miracle then you cannot suppress it.
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When God chooses to do a miracle then you cannot suppress it.
... more fool me.
You deserve Frank, and his "church".
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So, with all these miracles attributed to Saint Philomena, poche, why do you suppose that your church has completely suppressed her veneration?
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Poche will never admit what's been going on. Just as in the day of the Saint when the devil conspired with his minions to suppress the memory of her existence so to today when he is getting the same cooperation from within God's ostensible friends.
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So as to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect.
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The tiles arranged over her tomb said PAXTE LUMENA cuмFI -- but they were probably placed in haste, in the dark, and by workers who were illiterate, so rearranging them you could have PAXTE cuмFI LUMENA. Translation, Pax tecuм Filumena, Peace be with thee, Philumena.
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Poche will never admit what's been going on. Just as in the day of the Saint when the devil conspired with his minions to suppress the memory of her existence so to today when he is getting the same cooperation from within God's ostensible friends.
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So as to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect.
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The tiles arranged over her tomb said PAXTE LUMENA cuмFI -- but they were probably placed in haste, in the dark, and by workers who were illiterate, so rearranging them you could have PAXTE cuмFI LUMENA. Translation, Pax tecuм Filumena, Peace be with thee, Philumena.
I have also noticed that in transcribing original docuмents, they are not always the easiest to read.
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I recently read a short pamphlet by Patrick Henry Omlar entitled, The Unpersoning of Saint Philomena. It is a fascinating pamphlet. After reading how the Vatican eliminated this saint from all lists of saints and martyrs, I did a Google search of the Vatican website. Though Saint Philomena’s name is cited in numerous papal docuмents and allocutions, her name can be found nowhere, in any of its variant spellings, on the Vatican website. This is not to say that the name, Philomena, cannot be found. Unfortunately for the Vatican, there are many women named Philomena who have to be cited in various Vatican docuмents, usually in appointments and activities that some Vatican commission or office makes note of; but, never is the name actually in reference to the saint, herself.
In fact, I found her name in multiple Martyrologies available online which have been copied from hardbound books and made available in electronic formats by secular groups such as Google Books and others. Because these books still physically exist in places, the name of St. Philomena, Martyr, can’t be completely eliminated, but, as far as the Vatican is concerned, she is an “unperson”; she never actually existed.
Even the 1914 Catholic Encyclopedia (available online) began the process to unperson Saint Philomena with an article that essentially claims that she was a myth! These Modernists are even more diabolical than I thought.
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When Liberals undertake an agenda, they find vast energy to carry it out.
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Take Kirk and Pill's ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ agenda for example. They started that in 1987 and today, everything they laid out has been done.
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Roman Virgin Martyrs were a real big deal to the Romans.
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St. Philomena was martyred on the Feast of St. Lawrence, August 10th.
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But curiously, you don't find that Feast Day mentioned in any of the writings about her.
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Look up St. Lawrence and you can find that it is said his martyrdom is what finally crushed paganism in Rome.
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But St. Philomena was a Virgin Martyr in Rome over a century later, killed by a PAGAN Roman emperor, Diocletian.
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When her relics were discovered 1600 years later, no record of her life or martyrdom could be found in history.
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But no one could deny the reality of her relics.
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And no one could deny the reality of her miracles.
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St. John Vianney, patron of parish priests, was credited with hundreds of miracles.
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But whenever someone asked him or complimented him for his miracles, he would say it's not my doing -- it's all her's (St. Philomena's).
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He referred all credit for miracles to St. Philomena and said that he had nothing to do with them.
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But still, the Church persists in giving him credit for being the one through whom miracles came.
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Just like in the days of the infant Church, the devil today attacks the Roman Virgin Martyrs.
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In fact, he attacks all virgin martyrs, but the Romans seem to get special mention, or that is, special suppression.
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It's always the opposite with the devil.
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I heard a good priest tell me that we'll know the Church has been restored when St. Philomena's prominence is restored.
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There are a lot of things wrong with Los Angeles, but one thing is right -- there is a parish named St. Philomena's Church.
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Poche will never admit what's been going on. Just as in the day of the Saint when the devil conspired with his minions to suppress the memory of her existence so to today when he is getting the same cooperation from within God's ostensible friends.
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So as to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect.
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The tiles arranged over her tomb said PAXTE LUMENA cuмFI -- but they were probably placed in haste, in the dark, and by workers who were illiterate, so rearranging them you could have PAXTE cuмFI LUMENA. Translation, Pax tecuм Filumena, Peace be with thee, Philumena.
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There were two more tiles near those three.
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One had two arrows on it, one above the other, one pointing left and the other pointing to the right.
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In those days, such a symbol was meant to attest to a miracle in which arrows reversed direction mid-flight to strike the archers.
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One of the several archers killed by his own arrow fell down with his eye pierced by the arrow he had shot.
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As he lay there in agony he cried for Philomena to help him.
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She told him to take some of her blood and annoint his eye with it.
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He did so and was cured. Then he converted and was martyred as well.
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The other tile was an anchor, which meant that the martyr had been drowned with an anchor tied to his neck.
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There are no other cases of martyrs who died in both ways, arrows reversing and anchor drowning.
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St. Philomena's martyrdom occurred at the time when paganism in Rome was coming to an end.
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Since she died on the Feast of St. Lawrence, we could be not far off the mark if we say that she is the one who finally overcame Roman paganism.
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She overcame it with such effectiveness that the Romans forgot all about her.
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Perhaps all her associates were martyred as well, in the pagan Roman attempt to destroy the Church.
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Perhaps there was no one left to write her story down.
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The Vatican II popes [have] canonized more saints than all the prior popes of 1960 years PUT TOGETHER! They ended up even canonizing themselves. Yet they remove St. Philomena?
"By their deeds you shall know them".
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St. Philomena was never really "canonized." She was raised to the altars, by Pope Gregory XVI, in fulfillment of his promise to Ven. Pauline Jericot, after she returned from Mugnano cured of her serious illness. But in context of history, this is not out of the ordinary because many of our longstanding saints were never canonized. For example, none of the holy Apostles were canonized, nor was St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Lawrence Deacon of Rome and many others who were literally contemporaries of St. Philomena, who BTW was martyred on the Feast Day of St. Lawrence, whose martyrdom extinguished paganism in Rome.
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By their deeds you shall know them -- certainly what they believe and the guiding principle by which they operate they have not explained or defined, perhaps because they are all about not defining and thereby not exercising papal infallibility. This St. Philomena -- a little girl from 1700 years ago, stands in their way, and therefore she must be erased from the memory of those who would be subject to the Modernist unclean spirit of Vatican II.
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She stands in their way because it is the PROFUSION of her miracles that clearly characterize her sanctity from which the appellation is derived, "St. Philomena, powerful with God." But the unclean spirit of Vatican II minions are at war against the principle of miracles. John Paul II changed the rules for canonization twice, the first time reducing the miracles required for canonization from 3 to 2, and then later, changing them again from 2 to 1. By the time he was done with everything (having endured the second longest pontificate since St. Peter himself) even one miracle was becoming a kind of joke -- and in his own process the lone so-called miracle was just that, a laughing matter! It would never have qualified as authenticated in the days before the infamous unclean spirit council. The woman whose malady was said to have been "cured" had a relapse! But just as they wouldn't let St. Philomena get in the way of their unholy agenda, so too they wouldn't let such a paltry detail as a relapse get in the way of JPII's so-called canonization.
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If any of this seems incredible, one ought to view it as a portend of things to come, because now, as of Reformation Day 2018 (October 31st -- actually it was done 2 weeks before, on Oct. 14th, the day after Fatima, but this made it a 17-day historical "fact" by the time All Saints' Day 2018 arrived), no real miracles at all are required it seems, since no mention of any miracles granted in the name of Paul VI have been announced. So they've managed to set aside not only the need for miracles but also they've set aside their need to explain why they've set aside any need for miracles.
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Certainly none of this would be possible if they had not un-personed St. Philomena first!
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Which shows how much she stands in their way!
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