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I picked up a novena to her a while ago, and in desperation asked her for something which seemed impossible, and not only did it happen today, but I have made an incredible new friend
I’d like for everybody to try asking her for her intercession if you dearly need something. She’s an incredible saint and would love to take our prayers to God!
Saint Philomena (fil-o-ME-na) was conceived only after her parents converted to Christianity on the promise that they would finally conceive and bear a child. At a very young age, she had consecrated herself to be a virgin for life, forever a bride of Christ. At age 13, Philomena came from Greece to Rome with her parents on official business to ask something of the emperor Diocletian. The emperor fell into obsessive lust with Philomena, and asked to marry her. She refused, much to the disapproval of everybody, even her parents, because she rejected even the richest, most powerful man in the world because she had long ago desired to remain a virgin, and intended to remain a bride of Christ.
After many refusals, Diocletian had it. He then ordered her to be scourged as Our Lord was. He threw her into jail for over a month, starved and cold, and every day the evil emperor would come and try to tempt her into marrying him. Every time she refused. After his patience had worn thin, and he fully realized that she was just one open wound from the scourging, he ordered her to be tied to an anchor and drowned. It didn’t work, she lived. Then she was stood in front of a firing squad and was shot through with arrows. Again, she healed and was still alive. After both of these ordeals, he still persisted in his obsession and asked for her hand in marriage. In a bout of anger, Diocletian finally had Philomena beheaded, and in the year 304 she went to heaven to be with her spouse. The early Catholics had her buried in the catacombs, with a vial of her blood.
She was somehow forgotten. In 1802, however, her grave was discovered, and an explosion of miracles ensued. Basically all of her life’s story was revealed through revalations by her to four or five different people, all very far away from each other. Many Popes and Saints, notably St. John Vianney, fostered great devotion to Philomena. Since no historical record accounts for her martyrdom or life, Philomena remains the only Saint in all of Church history to ever be canonized solely on the basis of her miraculous intercession!
Her specialties could be anything, but are most notably things concerning mothers, children, teenagers, and she has also been hailed as a modern day St. Jude.
What is most fascinating about dear Philomena is that for so many years, she lay silent, as if God has saved her powerful intercession especially for our most recent generations.
If anybody would like to comment, or share your stories about what she has done for you, feel free! And if you’ve never really heard of her before, please pray for her intercession with this novena:
O FAITHFUL VIRGIN and glorious martyr, St. Philomena, who works so many miracles on behalf of the poor and sorrowing, have pity on me. Thou knowest the multitude and diversity of my needs. Behold me at thy feet, full of misery, but full of hope. I entreat thy charity , O great Saint! Graciously hear me and obtain from God a favorable answer to the request which I now humbly lay before thee … (Here specify your petition.) I am firmly convinced that through thy merits, through the scorn, the sufferings and the death thou didst endure, united to the merits of the Passion and death of Jesus, thy Spouse, I shall obtain what I ask of thee, and in the joy of my heart I will bless God, who is admirable in His Saints. Amen.
http://users.webhart.net/vandee/images/StPhilomena.jpg
I picked up a novena to her a while ago, and in desperation asked her for something which seemed impossible, and not only did it happen today, but I have made an incredible new friend
I’d like for everybody to try asking her for her intercession if you dearly need something. She’s an incredible saint and would love to take our prayers to God!Saint Philomena (fil-o-ME-na) was conceived only after her parents converted to Christianity on the promise that they would finally conceive and bear a child. At a very young age, she had consecrated herself to be a virgin for life, forever a bride of Christ. At age 13, Philomena came from Greece to Rome with her parents on official business to ask something of the emperor Diocletian. The emperor fell into obsessive lust with Philomena, and asked to marry her. She refused, much to the disapproval of everybody, even her parents, because she rejected even the richest, most powerful man in the world because she had long ago desired to remain a virgin, and intended to remain a bride of Christ.
After many refusals, Diocletian had it. He then ordered her to be scourged as Our Lord was. He threw her into jail for over a month, starved and cold, and every day the evil emperor would come and try to tempt her into marrying him. Every time she refused. After his patience had worn thin, and he fully realized that she was just one open wound from the scourging, he ordered her to be tied to an anchor and drowned. It didn’t work, she lived. Then she was stood in front of a firing squad and was shot through with arrows. Again, she healed and was still alive. After both of these ordeals, he still persisted in his obsession and asked for her hand in marriage. In a bout of anger, Diocletian finally had Philomena beheaded, and in the year 304 she went to heaven to be with her spouse. The early Catholics had her buried in the catacombs, with a vial of her blood.
She was somehow forgotten. In 1802, however, her grave was discovered, and an explosion of miracles ensued. Basically all of her life’s story was revealed through revalations by her to four or five different people, all very far away from each other. Many Popes and Saints, notably St. John Vianney, fostered great devotion to Philomena. Since no historical record accounts for her martyrdom or life, Philomena remains the only Saint in all of Church history to ever be canonized solely on the basis of her miraculous intercession!
Her specialties could be anything, but are most notably things concerning mothers, children, teenagers, and she has also been hailed as a modern day St. Jude.
What is most fascinating about dear Philomena is that for so many years, she lay silent, as if God has saved her powerful intercession especially for our most recent generations.
If anybody would like to comment, or share your stories about what she has done for you, feel free! And if you’ve never really heard of her before, please pray for her intercession with this novena:
O FAITHFUL VIRGIN and glorious martyr, St. Philomena, who works so many miracles on behalf of the poor and sorrowing, have pity on me. Thou knowest the multitude and diversity of my needs. Behold me at thy feet, full of misery, but full of hope. I entreat thy charity , O great Saint! Graciously hear me and obtain from God a favorable answer to the request which I now humbly lay before thee … (Here specify your petition.) I am firmly convinced that through thy merits, through the scorn, the sufferings and the death thou didst endure, united to the merits of the Passion and death of Jesus, thy Spouse, I shall obtain what I ask of thee, and in the joy of my heart I will bless God, who is admirable in His Saints. Amen.
