* Saint Philomena ( martyred )

* Saint Philomena, Christian martyress ( d. c. 304 )

Saint Philomena School operated for over 100 years before closing in 2011.

Saint Philomena School ( Pre-Kindergarten through 8th Grade )

Saint Philomena with attributes: palm, whip, anchor and arrows.

In 1833 a Neapolitan nun reported that in a vision Saint Philomena had revealed that she was a Greek princess martyred at 13 years of age by Diocletian, who was Roman Emperor from 284 to 305 ( see below ).

On 14 February 1961, the Holy See ordered that the name of Saint Philomena be removed from all liturgical calendars that mentioned her.

There was or is also the chaplet of Saint Philomena, with three white beads in honour of the Blessed Trinity and thirteen red beads in honour of the thirteen years of the saint's life.

Devotees of Saint Philomena use a truncated version of rosary in their special devotions to her.

According to Sister Maria Luisa di Gesù, Saint Philomena told her she was the daughter of a king in Greece who, with his wife, had converted to Christianity.

In these visions, Saint Philomena also revealed that her birthday was 10 January, that her martyrdom occurred on 10 August ( the date also of the arrival of her relics in Mugnano del Cardinale ), and that her name " Filumena " meant " daughter of light ".

On 6 October 1876, Father Louis Petit founded the Confraternity of Saint Philomena in Paris, France.

In August 1876, the first issue of Messenger of Saint Philomena was published there.

On 14 February 1961, the Holy See ordered that the name of Saint Philomena be removed from all liturgical calendars that mentioned her.

It then added: " However, the feast of Saint Philomena Virgin and Martyr ( 11 August ) is to be expunged from any calendar whatever.

" This action did not call into question her existence or sainthood, nor prohibit popular devotion to Saint Philomena.

After reporting the decision of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in 1961 as resulting from the studies of scholars, the Italian-language Enciclopedia dei Santi says that there still remain the miracles that occurred and the official recognition that the Church gave in the nineteenth century, the personal devotion to Saint Philomena of popes and people who were later canonized, and the widespread general devotion that still persists, particularly at Mugnano del Cardinale in the Diocese of Nola, where pilgrims from all over the world arrive continually, giving a display of intense popular devotion.

For many, the 1961 withdrawal of Pope Gregory XVI's 1837 authorization of liturgical veneration of Saint Philomena in a limited number of places ( which was not an official declaration that she never existed nor that she is not a saint ) merely means that the situation has returned to that existing before 1837, when in many places there was fervent devotion to her, accompanied only by vague speculation about the circumstances of her life and death or by belief in the revelations of the Neapolitan nun.

The website of " The National Shrine of Saint Philomena, Miami, Florida " sees " the action taken in 1960 as the work of the devil in order to deprive the people of God of a most powerful Intercessor, particularly in the areas of purity and faith at a time when these virtues were so much being challenged as they continue to be up until now!

* Saint Philomena Catholic Church in Honolulu

* Sister Marie Helene Mohr, S. C., " Saint Philomena, Powerful with God ," Rockford, IL: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1988.

Saint Philomena: Virgin martyr and wonder worker.

* Litany to Saint Philomena

* Catholic Tradition Saint Philomena

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