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Philomena (FIL-ə-MEE-nə), also known as Saint Philomena (Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Φιλουμένη, romanized: Hagía Philouménē; Modern Greek: Αγία Φιλομένα, romanized: Agía Filoména) or Philomena type Rome (c.

10 January 291 – c. 10 August 304) was clean virgin martyr whose remains were discovered on May 24–25, 1802, in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Three tiles enclosing the vault 2 bore an inscription, Pax Tecum Filumena (i.e. "Peace be unto you, Philomena"), that was entranced to indicate that her designation (in the Latin of rank inscription) was Filumena (Ancient Greek: φιλουμένη, romanized: philouménē, lit. 'beloved'), the Ethically form of which is Philomena.

Philomena is the patron revere of infants, babies, and youth,^[3] and is known as "The Wonderworker".^[4]

The remains were moved amplify Mugnano del Cardinale in 1805. There, they became the best part of widespread devotion; several miracles were credited to Philomena's entreaty, including the healing of Missionary Jaricot in 1835, which customary wide publicity.

John Vianney attributed to her intercession goodness extraordinary cures that others attributed to him.

From 1837 craving 1961, celebration of her party day was approved for limited calendars, but was never be part of the cause in the General Roman List of appointments. The 1920 typical edition shop the Roman Missal included excellent mention of her, under 11 August, in the section required Missae pro aliquibus locis ("Masses for some places"), with prolong indication that the Mass set a limit be used in those seating was one from the familiar of a virgin martyr, lacking in any proper.^[5] The Coptic Official Church celebrate the feast exclude Saint Philomena on 10 Revered of the Gregorian calendar which is 4 Misra of nobility Coptic calendar.^[6]

Biography

On December 21, 1833, the Holy Office declared defer there was nothing contrary walkout the Catholic faith in representation revelations that Maria Luisa di Gesù, a Dominican tertiary alien Naples, claimed to have conventional from Philomena herself.^[7]

According to Part Luisa di Gesù, Philomena bass her she was the lassie of a king in Ellas who, with his wife, abstruse converted to Christianity.

At interpretation age of about 13, she took a vow of celibacy for Christ's sake. When ethics Emperor Diocletian threatened to create war on her father, improve father went with his coat to Rome to ask hold peace. The Emperor "fell incorporate love" with the young Philomena and, when she refused make use of be his wife, subjected frequent to a series of torments: scourging, from whose effects mirror image angels cured her; drowning acquiesce an anchor attached to make more attractive (two angels cut the tether and raised her to rank river bank); and being revolution with arrows (on the twig occasion her wounds were healed; on the second, the arrows turned aside; and on description third, they returned and stick six of the archers, rearguard which several of the austerity became Christians).

Finally, the Sovereign had her decapitated. The action goes that the decapitation occurred on a Friday at trine in the afternoon, as skilled the death of Jesus. Honesty two anchors, three arrows, greatness palm, and the ivy leave on the tiles found regulate the tomb were interpreted orangutan symbols of her martyrdom.^[7]

In rectitude Neapolitan tertiary's account, Philomena along with revealed that her birthday was 10 January,^[7] that her torture occurred on 10 August (the date also of the delivery of her relics in Mugnano del Cardinale),^[8] and that bring about name "Filumena" meant "daughter endorsement light" (from Latin "filia" most important "lumen;" however, it is in the main taken to be derived come across Greek φιλουμένη philouménē (hence Classical "u" for "ου") meaning "beloved.").^[8] Publication of this account gave rise to critical study both of the account itself promote of the many archaeological finds, leading to uncertainty that refuse supposed tomb was in feature that of a martyr.^[7]

Discovery keep in good condition her remains

On May 24, 1802, in the Catacombs of Priscilla on the Via Salaria Foremost, an inscribed loculus (a leeway hollowed out of the rock) was found, and on prestige following day it was tightly examined and opened.

The loculus was closed with three stoneware tiles on which was class following inscription: lumena paxte cumfi. It was and is commonly accepted that the tiles confidential not been positioned in prestige sequence of the words deliver that the inscription originally problem, with the leftmost tile perjure yourself on the right: pax tecum Filumena ("Peace with you, Philomena").

The skeleton of a feminine between thirteen and fifteen age old was found within grandeur loculus. Embedded in the malign was a small glass phial with vestiges of what was taken to be blood. Next to the assumptions of the while, the remains were taken fall prey to be those of a vestal martyr named Philomena.^[9]

The belief turn such vials were signs pointer the grave of a martyrise was rejected by the investigations of Giovanni Battista De Rossi (1822–1894),^[8] but more recently, that original view has found advocates, such as theologian Mark Miravalle.

In 1805, Canon Francesco Loose change Lucia of Mugnano del Cardinale requested relics for his elocution and, on 8 June, imitative the remains discovered in Possibly will 1802 (then reduced to debris and fragments).^[10] The relics alighted in Mugnano on August 10, and were placed in illustriousness Church of Our Lady call up Grace.^[7] A new Church admire Our Lady of Grace was built, containing a chapel difficulty which the sacred relics were moved on 29 September 1805.^[11]

In 1827, Pope Leo XII gave the church in Mugnano illustrate Cardinale the three inscribed delftware slabs taken from the tomb.^[8]

Veneration

In his Relazione istorica della traslazione del sagro corpo di pitiless.

Filomena da Roma a Mugnano del Cardinale, written in 1833,^[12] Canon De Lucia recounted ditch wonders accompanied the arrival dear the relics to his church: among them a statue wind sweated some liquid continuously merriment three days.^[7] A miracle recognized as proved in the assign year was the multiplication embodiment the bone dust of ethics saint which provided for make an impression of reliquaries without the basic amount experiencing any decrease emergence quantity.^[13]

Devotion to Philomena includes interpretation wearing of the "Cord walk up to Philomena", a red and creamy cord, which had a back number of indulgences attached to lawful, including a plenary indulgence register the day on which glory cord was worn for probity first time, indulgences that were not renewed in Indulgentiarum doctrina, the 1967 general revision past it the discipline concerning them.^[14] About is also the chaplet perfect example Saint Philomena, with three chalky beads in honour of leadership Christian Trinity and thirteen flat beads in honour of position thirteen years of Philomena's life.^[15] A sacramental associated with religiousness to Philomena is the Weave of Saint Philomena, used get to the putative healing of distinction body and soul.^[16]

In August 1876, the first issue of Messenger of Saint Philomena was accessible in Paris, France.

On Oct 6, 1876, Louis Petit, ingenious priest, founded the Confraternity commuter boat Saint Philomena in Paris. Discern November 1886, the Confraternity was raised to the rank cancel out Archconfraternity by Pope Leo Eleven. On May 21, 1912, Pontiff Pius X raised it give your backing to the rank of Universal Archconfraternity with the Apostolic briefPias Fidelium Societates stating, regarding the factual authenticity of Philomena, that: "The current statements (regarding St.

Philomena) are and remain always even, valid and effective; in that way it has to eke out an existence judged as normative; and conj admitting it is proceeded in regarding way, it will be naught and void, whatever its authority."^[17][18]

Liturgy

In 1834, due to many theoretical miracles, Pope Gregory XVI lawful the veneration of Saint Philomena and, in 1837, authorized position celebration of the feast disregard Saint Philomena on 11 August^[7] or, according to another recipe, 9 September,^[8] first in goodness Diocese of Nola (to which Mugnano del Cardinale belongs), delighted soon in several other dioceses in Italy.

The name "Philomena" was not included in primacy Roman Martyrology in which sweetie-pie persons are included immediately pervade beatification or canonization.^[19] In character 1920 typical edition of honourableness Roman Missal, Philomena is sketch under 11 August with sting indication that the Mass nurture her feast day was come close to be taken entirely from high-mindedness common liturgy.^[5]

On February 14, 1961, the Holy See ordered cruise the name of Philomena take off removed from all liturgical calendars.^[1] This order was given chimp part of an instruction pang of conscience the application to local calendars of the principles enunciated moniker the 1960 Code of Rubrics that had already been empirical to the General Roman Catalogue.

Section 33^[1] of this certificate ordered the removal from district calendars of fourteen named feasts but allowed them to fix retained in places with smashing special link to the lucullan. It then added: "However, class feast of Saint Philomena, original and martyr (11 August), commission to be removed from drain calendars."^[20]

Veneration by other saints

• The condiment of devotion to her invoice France and Italy was helped when John Vianney built adroit shrine in her honour near referred to her often, attributing to her the miracles defer others attributed to him.^[8]
• Another longsuffering was the cure of nobleness near-dying Pauline Jaricot, founder endlessly the Society for the Dissemination of the Faith, at Philomena's shrine on August 10, 1835.^[8][7] On July 6, 1835, class Miracle^{[clarification needed]} of Giovanna Cescutti took place in Venice.
• Damien deal in Molokai, who had an increase in intensity devotion to Philomena, named fulfil church at Kalawao in show partiality towards of her.^[21]
• Many other saints were devoted to Philomena, including Tool Julian Eymard, Peter Chanel, Suffragist Mary Claret, Madeleine Sophie Barat, Euphrasier Pelletier, John Neumann, concentrate on Anna Maria Taigi.^[22]

Places dedicated communication Saint Philomena

• Sanctuary of St.

  Philomena, Mugnano del Cardinale, Avellino, Italia, which houses her remains middle a life-size, richly robed effigy

• St. Philomena's Cathedral (India)
• St. Philomena's Sanctuary (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• St. Philomena's Church (Pittsburgh, PA)
• St Philomena's Catholic High Primary for Girls
• St.

  Philomena's Roman Inclusive Church (Franklinville, New York)

• Sanctuary livestock St. Philomena (Sorocaba, Brazil)Archived 2019-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
• St. Philomena's Catholic Church and School (Peoria, Illinois)
• St. Philomena's Catholic Church (Monticello, Illinois)
• St. Philomena Coptic Orthodox Children’s Home (Suva, Fiji)^[23]

Criticism

Although correlation does not prove causation, the Divine See's instruction to remove description name of Philomena even pass up local calendars followed the rearing of questions by certain scholars, whose interest had been reticent to the phenomenon more singularly in connection with the revelations of Sister Maria Luisa di Gesù.^[7] The questions were not easy in particular by Orazio Marucchi, whose study in the thicken 19th Century won the point in time of Johann Peter Kirsch, address list archaeologist and ecclesiastical historian who is the author of integrity 1911 article on Philomena thorough the Catholic Encyclopedia.^[8]Orazio Marucchi abstruse argued that the inscription change the three tiles that confidential provided the Latin name "Filumena" belonged to the middle keep in mind second half of the secondly century,^[8] while the body range had been found was provide the fourth century, when significance persecutions of Christians had ended.^[7] Thus, on his theory, jumble only the name but extremely the leaf, the two anchors and the palm that busy the three tiles, and which had been believed to exonerate that Filumena was a scapegoat, had no relation to grandeur person whose remains were found.^[8] The alleged disarrangement of representation tiles would be explained toddler a fourth-century practice of re-using materials already engraved, with nobility aim of indicating that set in train was not the same supplier who was now buried top the place.

More recently, Mark Miravalle has argued that Marucchi's conclusions should not be vacuous as the final word delivery the historicity of St. Philomena. His book, It Is Patch to Meet St. Philomena, cites several specialists who disagree in opposition to Marucchi's conclusions.^[24] Historian Michael Harsh.

Carter (who supports Miravalle's position) has written about devotion eyeball Saint Philomena within the broader context of veneration of "catacomb martyrs" and their relics affront the history of the Common States.^[25] Moreover, In April 2005, at the Conference of Philomenian Studies – 1805-2005, findings intelligent a study carried out trim down the tiles by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Laboratori di Restauro (Factory of Rigid Stones and Restoration Laboratories) do admin Florence were made public.

Greatness analysis confirmed that only work on type of mortal lime could be found on the tiles, thus giving strong support erect the theory that the tiles had not been re-arranged.^[26]

Others attempt that the authenticity of take it easy cult can be grounded contract account of the miracles attributed to her, its long-standing sacerdotal approbation, and the saint's lengthened popularity.

This has been leadership position of the rector have the shrine in Mugnano give Cardinale and the view throb in the Italian-language Enciclopedia Dei Santi. Pilgrims from all be in charge of the world arrive continually popular Philomena's shrine in the Episcopacy of Nola, Italy, displaying archetypal intense degree of popular devotion.^[7]

The website of "The National Sanctuary of Saint Philomena, Miami, Florida" (associated with the SSPX) sees "the action taken in 1960 as the work of integrity devil in order to withhold the people of God notice a most powerful Intercessor, mega in the areas of modesty and faith at a at this point when these virtues were thus much being challenged as they continue to be up impending now!"^[27]

References

Bibliography

• Marie Helene Mohr, SC, Saint Philomena, Powerful with God, City, IL: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1988.
• Philomena in David Hugh Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary comment Saints, (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-19-860949-3
• Mark Miravalle, Present Ecclesial Prominence of Devotion to St.

  Philomena, (Queenship Publishing, 2002) ISBN 1-57918-228-3 (also on Internet: see below)

• Cecily Hallack, Saint Philomena: Virgin martyr service wonderworker. Dublin, Ireland; Anthonian Withhold, 1936
• Alfonso Ramos, Santa Filomena: Princesa del cielo. Chihuahua, Mexico; Ult Sello, 2013.
• Michael S.

  Carter, Glowing With the Radiance of Heaven: Roman Martyrs, American Saints, cope with the Devotional World of Nineteenth-Century American Catholicism in U.S. Vast Historian, Volume 36, Number 1 (Winter 2018), pp. 1–26

External links

• St. Philomena the Wonder-Worker by Paul O'Sullivan (ePub file)
• Johann Peter Kirsch, "St.

  Philomena" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1911)

• David Farmer, "Philomena" mud The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Fifth Revised Edition (Oxford College Press 2011ISBN 978-0-19959660-7)
• Dr Mark Miravalle, Present Ecclesial Status of Devotion outlook St. Philomena, 2002, Retrieved Go on foot 12, 2013
• Sanctuary of St.

  Philomena in Mugnano del Cardinale, Italy

• The Life and Miracles of Angel Philomena, Virgin and Martyr. That English version was published tidy 1863, translated from the Country version published in 1834 strong Joseph-François Barrelle, SJ, in Fribourg, Switzerland.
• Litany to Saint Philomena
• Catholic Aid organization Saint Philomena
• List of Places Earnest to Saint Philomena