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...humble, be lowly]," and one of his most frequent prayers was "Lord, don't trust Philip." This humility, combined with a joyful spirit and a pride-pricking sense of humor, brightened 16th century Rome, as it does a new biography, St. Philip Neri, by French Author Marcel Jouhandeau (Harper...
...sprung two of his ribs out of position. Few who knew him doubted his sainthood. Two months after he died, the canonization process began with 194 witnesses, and less than 27 years later, Pope Gregory XV proclaimed him St. Philip Neri. "He owed his pre-eminence," writes Author Jouhandeau, ''entirely to his irresistible power of attraction. That was what won over all his disciples. Once people had come to know him it was a kind of death for them to be made to do without...
Novelist Marcel Jouhandeau: "[In a decision like this], only one thing really matters. That is tradition. I was born in the tradition of the Catholic religion . . . and I am resigned, therefore, to being liturgically devoured by worms. Similarly, if I had died at Athens, in the 5th century before Christ, I should have been quite pleased to burn up on the funeral pyre. Even today, at Delhi, I would happily be put to ashes, with the exception of my navel, which I would voluntarily bequeath. Forgive me for not revealing to whom...
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