Bureaucrats, Moderators (CommentStreams), Interface administrators, Push subscription managers, Suppressors, Administrators
12,446
edits
Saint Philomena: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
(Created page with "{{Saints |SaintName=Saint Philomena |SaintStage=Saint |SaintBirthDate= |SaintBirthPlace=Rome, Roman Empire (now Italy) |SaintBirthCoordinates=41.9028, 12.4964 |SaintDeathDate= |DeathPlace=Rome, Roman Empire (now Italy) |SaintDeathCoordinates=41.9028, 12.4964 |SaintCauseOfDeath=martyrdom |NotableAddress1=Santuario Santa Filomena, Via S. Filomena, 83030 Mugnano del Cardinale AV, Italy |NotableLabel1=Primary shrine with relics |NotableCoordinates1=40.9347, 14.6933 |NotableA...") |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
|SaintName=Saint Philomena | |SaintName=Saint Philomena | ||
|SaintStage=Saint | |SaintStage=Saint | ||
| | |FeastDay=August 11 | ||
|SaintBirthPlace=Rome, Roman Empire (now Italy) | |SaintBirthPlace=Rome, Roman Empire (now Italy) | ||
|SaintBirthCoordinates=41.9028, 12.4964 | |SaintBirthCoordinates=41.9028, 12.4964 | ||
|DeathPlace=Rome, Roman Empire (now Italy) | |DeathPlace=Rome, Roman Empire (now Italy) | ||
|SaintDeathCoordinates=41.9028, 12.4964 | |SaintDeathCoordinates=41.9028, 12.4964 | ||
| Line 18: | Line 17: | ||
|NotableLabel3=Discovery site of relics | |NotableLabel3=Discovery site of relics | ||
|NotableCoordinates3=41.9347, 12.5172 | |NotableCoordinates3=41.9347, 12.5172 | ||
| | |AssociatedCountries=Italy | ||
| | |AssociatedDioceses=[[Diocese of Avellino]] | ||
|Canonized=Yes | |Canonized=Yes | ||
|Canonizer=Pope Gregory XVI | |Canonizer=Pope Gregory XVI | ||
|CanonizationLocation=Rome, Italy | |CanonizationLocation=Rome, Italy | ||
|SaintMiracle1=Healing of Pauline Jaricot from terminal illness | |SaintMiracle1=Healing of Pauline Jaricot from terminal illness | ||
|SaintMiracle2=Healing of a child from diphtheria | |SaintMiracle2=Healing of a child from diphtheria | ||
|ReligiousAffiliation=Early Christian Church | |ReligiousAffiliation=Early Christian Church | ||
|Patronage=Living Rosary; infants; the poor; the sick; sailors; against poverty; expectant mothers | |Patronage=Living Rosary; infants; the poor; the sick; sailors; against poverty; expectant mothers | ||
| Line 35: | Line 29: | ||
|PrimaryShrine=Santuario Santa Filomena, Mugnano del Cardinale, Italy | |PrimaryShrine=Santuario Santa Filomena, Mugnano del Cardinale, Italy | ||
|AdditionalVeneration=Eastern Orthodox Church | |AdditionalVeneration=Eastern Orthodox Church | ||
|ReviewLevel=0 | |ReviewLevel=0 | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Saint Philomena''' (Greek: '''Φιλομένη'''; c. 3rd century – c. 304), also known as '''Saint Philomena the Wonder Worker''', is a virgin martyr of the early Church whose relics were discovered in 1802 in the Catacomb of Priscilla in Rome.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=98 |title=St. Philomena - Saints & Angels |publisher=Catholic Online |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> According to hagiographic traditions based on the tiles found with her bones—"Peace be with you, Philomena" (''Pax Tecum Filumena'')—and later 19th-century visions attributed to her, she was a young Greek princess who converted to Christianity, rejected Emperor Diocletian's advances, and was martyred by beheading after surviving attempts by poison, drowning with an anchor, and arrows.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12033a.htm |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Philomena |publisher=New Advent |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> Little is known of her historical life, with details emerging from devotional narratives rather than contemporary records, leading to her rapid canonization in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI based on the extraordinary cultus and reported miracles following the relics' transfer to Mugnano del Cardinale. | '''Saint Philomena''' (Greek: '''Φιλομένη'''; c. 3rd century – c. 304), also known as '''Saint Philomena the Wonder Worker''', is a virgin martyr of the early Church whose relics were discovered in 1802 in the Catacomb of Priscilla in Rome.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=98 |title=St. Philomena - Saints & Angels |publisher=Catholic Online |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> According to hagiographic traditions based on the tiles found with her bones—"Peace be with you, Philomena" (''Pax Tecum Filumena'')—and later 19th-century visions attributed to her, she was a young Greek princess who converted to Christianity, rejected Emperor Diocletian's advances, and was martyred by beheading after surviving attempts by poison, drowning with an anchor, and arrows.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12033a.htm |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Philomena |publisher=New Advent |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> Little is known of her historical life, with details emerging from devotional narratives rather than contemporary records, leading to her rapid canonization in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI based on the extraordinary cultus and reported miracles following the relics' transfer to Mugnano del Cardinale. | ||