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Reliquary / Relic: St.Philomena

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    Description

    Size: cm
    1 class
    Wax seal: bishop
    Memorial:
    11 August
    removed from the general calendar in 1961 by Pope John XXIII, but continued devotion was permitted
    Profile:
    Little is known of her life, and the information was have was received by private revelation from her. Martyred at about age 14 in the early days of the Church.
    In 1802 the remains of a young woman were found in the catacomb of Saint Priscilla on the Via Salaria, Rome, Italy. It was covered by stones, the symbols on which indicated that the body was a martyr named Saint Philomena. The bones were exhumed, cataloged, and effectively forgotten since there was so little known about the person.
    In 1805 Canon Francis de Lucia of Mugnano, Italy was in the Treasury of the Rare Collection of Christian Antiquity (Treasury of Relics) in the Vatican. When he reached the relics of Saint Philomena he was suddenly struck with a spiritual joy, and requested that he be allowed to enshrine them in a chapel in Mugnano. After some disagreements, settled by the cure of Canon Francis following prayers to Philomena, he was allowed to translate the relics to Mugnano. Miracles began to be reported at the shrine including cures of cancer, healing of wounds, and the Miracle of Mugnano in which Venerable Pauline Jaricot was cured a severe heart ailment overnight. Philomena became the only person recognized as a Saint solely on the basis of miraculous intercession as nothing historical was known of her except her name and the evidence of her martyrdom.
    Pope Leo XII granted permission for the erection of altars and churches in her honour
    Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration, and named her patroness of the Living Rosary
    The cure of Pope Blessed Pius IX, while archbishop of Imola, was attributed to Philomena; in 1849, Pius named her patroness of the Children of Mary.
    Pope Leo XIII approved the Confraternity of Saint Philomena, and raised it to an Archconfraternity
    Pope Pius X raised the Archconfraternity to a Universal Archconfraternity, and named Saint John Vianney its patron
    Saint John Vianney himself called Philomena the New Light of the Church Militant, and had a strong and well-known devotion to her
    Others with known devotion to her include:
    Saint Anthony Mary Claret
    Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
    Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini
    Saint John Nepomucene Neumann
    Saint Madeline Sophie Barat
    Saint Peter Chanel
    Saint Peter Julian Eymard
    Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
    Venerable Pauline Jaricot
    Died:
    relics discovered on 24 May 1802
    relics translated to Mugnano, Italy on 10 August 1805
    Canonized:by Pope Gregory XVI
    Patronage:
    against barrenness
    against bodily ills
    against infertility
    against mental illness
    against sickness
    against sterility
    babies
    children
    Children of Mary
    desperate causes
    forgotten causes
    impossible causes
    infants
    lost causes
    Living Rosary
    newborns
    orphans
    poor people
    priests
    prisoners
    sick people
    students
    test takers
    toddlers
    young people
    youth