{"id":24870,"date":"2009-08-11T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/saint-philomena\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T00:00:42","slug":"saint-philomena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/saint-philomena\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Philomena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Philomena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Philomena.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St Philomena-thumb-159x220.jpg\" width=\"159\" height=\"220\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>August 11th is also Saint Philomena&#8217;s liturgical feast day but today is also a day to honor the name of Philomena and her place in our Church. Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/prwire\/headline.php?ID=7431&amp;wf=rsscol\">a news item<\/a> appeared about her.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Growing up in New Haven, CT I knew many of Italian Catholic women named for Saint Philomena. Across the street from Portsmouth Abbey (Portsmouth, RI) there&#8217;s a school that&#8217;s under the patronage of this saint. The connections are many more. One has to say that some &#8216;people&#8217; think Philomena didn&#8217;t exist in the same way they think Saint Christopher didn&#8217;t exist. What historical proof does one need to prove a person&#8217;s existence? For someone who never existed in the scientific minds, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philomena.us\/\">Philomena<\/a> has had some prominent people take an interest in her with a &nbsp;sanctuary (Italy) and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shrineofsaintphilomena.com\/\">shrine<\/a> (USA).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A little known fact is that Saint John Vianney, Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Saint Bartolo Longo and Saint Damian de Vuester had a special love for Philomena; Vianney even attributes the conversion of Ars to her intercession. &nbsp;He built a shrine to Saint Philomena and composing a litany in honor of her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pray the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/library\/prayer\/philpray.txt\">Litany to Saint Philomena<\/a>&nbsp;and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/Devotionals\/novena\/philomena.htm\">Novena Prayer<\/a> to the saint.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 11th is also Saint Philomena&#8217;s liturgical feast day but today is also a day to honor the name of Philomena and her place in our Church. Recently, a news item appeared about her. Growing up in New Haven, CT I knew many of Italian Catholic women named for Saint Philomena. Across the street from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/saint-philomena\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Philomena<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}