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...superiors. On the saint's feast day, Feb, 21, the piazza in front of the shrine rings with the din of jukeboxes and shooting galleries and the cries of vendors selling rosaries and cold beer. Some 300,000 pilgrims yearly visit the shrine of St. Philomena in Mugnano del Cardinale, near Naples-even though Philomena was removed from the Catholic liturgical calendar...
...Pope Pius VII consigned the bones to the care of a priest, Don Francis di Lucia, who had them enshrined in the church of Mugnano del Cardinale near Naples, where they promptly began to produce a flood of miracles and special favors. A Neapolitan nun named Sister Mary Louisa of Jesus claimed to have received a series of revelations about Philomena's life and martyrdom, on the basis of which Don Francis di Lucia compiled a "biography" of the "saint." As a martyr, her formal canonization was unnecessary, but in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration...
...Faith. Philomena was also one of the favorite saints of St. Jean Vianney (1786-1859), France's famed Curé d'Ars, who called her his "dear little saint" and his "agent in heaven." In recent times some 300,000 tourists have visited her shrine at Mugnano del Cardinale each year, and countless churches have been dedicated to her-more than 100 in the U.S. alone...
...some comfort in the closing words on the "saint" in the current edition (1956) of Butler's Lives of the Saints: "We do not know certainly whether she was in fact named Philomena in her earthly life, whether she was a martyr, whether her relics now rest at Mugnano or in some place unknown. And these questions are only of relative importance: the spiritual influence of her whom we call St. Philomena is what really matters; . . . in the words of our Lord: 'Is not the life more than the meat and the body more than the raiment...
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