SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 5th of July SAINT PHILOMENA OF SAN SEVERINO, VIRGIN Today, we also commemorate Saint Philomena. The Roman Martyrology states:  "At San Severino, in the March of Ancona, Saint Philomena, virgin." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Philomena may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

  WELCOME! SAINT PHILOMENA, DAUGHTER OF LIGHT Philomena is a gift to the Church that God gives to the generations that are most in need of her intercession. And certainly, I think, this is true of our own time and our own need. OUR AGE IS NOT MUCH DIFFERENT FROM THE WANING DAYS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Our day and Age is not radically different from the days of Diocletian, the waning days of the old Roman Empire. If we were to look back in history and read accounts of life in those days, it would almost be as if we were reading newspaper headlines of our own day. THE REIGN OF DIOCLETIAN WAS A CULTURE OF DEATH! The reign of Diocletian was a culture of death! It was a time when life was cheap, men and women lived for their own sexual excess and pleasure.  THIS AMAZING LITTLE SAINT CHALLENGES THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD And it was into the darkness of that culture of death that God brought forth this amazing little Saint to challenge the wisdom of the world. God sent a teenage girl to cha...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 11th of August WELCOME! SAINT PHILOMENA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR 1. On May 25, 1802, during the quest for the graves of Roman martyrs in the Catacomb of Priscilla, a tomb was discovered and opened; as it contained a glass vessel it was assumed to be the grave of a martyr. The remains found in the above-mentioned tomb were shown to be those of a young maiden, and, as the name Filumena was discovered on the earthenware slabs closing the grave, it was assumed that they were those of a virgin martyr named Philumena.  A YOUNG MAIDEN On June 8, 1805, the relics were translated to the church of Mungano, Diocese of Nola (near Naples), and enshrined under one of its altars. In 1827 Leo XII presented the church with the three earthenware tiles, with the inscription, which may be seen in the church even today.  In consequence of the wonderful favours received in answer to prayer before the relics of the saint at Mugnano, devotion ...