Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena

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Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena is a nonprofit Corporation 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
The corporation is organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of prayer.
Mission Statement
It is the mission of The Universal Living Rosary Association to hasten the Triumph of The Immaculate Heart of Mary,
through the daily Decade of The Most Holy Rosary, That One with Mary we may in fact bring about the Reign of
Jesus Christ the King.
Who We Are
On December 8, 1986, Richard and Patricia Joann Melvin, in an effort to honor St. Philomena and win her favor,
began the revival of the Living Rosary. The Living Rosary started a small flyer or periodical in 1987 entitled
“Dedicated Decades” a copy of which was sent to the principle Shrine of Saint Philomena in Mugnano, Italy. Sadly ,
at that time, the devotion to Saint Philomena in Italy and elsewhere was dying out but news of the work in
Dickinson, Texas inspired the Rector of the Shrine to visit Texas in 1987. Father Giovanni Braschi brought with him
many devotional items as well as old rare books in French and Italian. Amongst these treasures was the original
“Petit Manual of the Living Rosary Association” along with all of the directives, guidelines and indulgences. Thanks
to all of this information “The Universal Living Rosary Association” was formatted exactly as the directives outlined,
and continues, to this day without deviation from the original text.
As all things do, their work began small, Patti and Richard wrote all the letters, kept all the records, registrations,
packing and much, much more. The guidelines established by Ven. Pauline in her “Petit Manuel of the Living
Rosary” were followed, nothing was changed. It was decided that for the unity and perpetuity of this important
devotion that each person was accept and pray the same decade of the Rosary each day. All of this was discussed
with the personal secretary of the Cause of Ven. Pauline Jaricot and her bibliographer Fr. Naidenoff who gave his
full confirmation from Lyon France at his office within the ‘Propagation of the Faith”. Fr. Naidenoff became one of
the first priests to join the Universal Living Rosary Association and remained a member until his death.
One by one Bishops, Archbishops, priests, religious, lay apostles and the faithful joined the Universal Living Rosary
Association. The years passed and the revival of the Living Rosary and the revival of the devotion to St. Philomena
were clearly connected. When the Melvin’s began their work the memory and devotion to St. Philomena were once
again buried in the catacombs, but this time, the 20th century version. Over the years the faithful are again
learning of and turning to this great Saint, who is the patroness and protectress of the Living Rosary. St. Philomena
had been given to the world again through the Universal Living Rosary.
Why are donations so very , very important?
Since the work of the Living Rosary Association is Universal (hence ULRA) the majority of the members of the Living
Rosary are in Third World Countries. Everything that is donated to the ULRA goes right back into our universal and
heroic missionary efforts to reach souls with the Living Rosary. The efforts of the ULRA are undertaken without
expectations or hope of payment. The entire efforts of the ULRA are focused on the poor in the missions of the
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world, after the heart of our foundress Pauline. Over the past two decades our beloved St. Philomena seems to care
for the needs of both the missions as well as the ULRA. The work of the Living Rosary is worldwide and as such we
receive requests for literature, holy cards and sacramentals from our members in the missions worldwide. In order
to fulfill these requests your generous donations are very much needed and greatly appreciated.
Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena is a nonprofit Corporation 501(c)(3) charitable organization
and as such we automatically give "Tax Receipts" to all those who make a financial donation. You can also make a
donation to The Universal Living Rosary Association in the form of check, credit card payment, financial securities
(stocks, bonds, etc.) and/or by putting the Universal Living Rosary Association in your will. Contact your attorney
about adding the “Universal Living Rosary Association” to your will. You or your broker may contact us directly if
you would like to donate securities.
How We Got Started (By Patti Melvin)
I am eager to share with you, how we began our work for Saint Philomena. Like so many souls, we had a great
longing and it was to this beloved Saint we turned in our impossible circumstances. The desire of our hearts was to
have a child of our own flesh. We had two adopted boys and prayed for a little Philomena to make our family
complete. Our prayers to St. Philomena always bore the fruit of joy and hope. In the year of 1984, we began our
prayers after reading the book on the life of St. Jean Marie Vianney. It was, then, my dear mother sent me the
booklet written by Fr. Paul O’Sullivan, which furthermore ignited our devotion and gave us direction. We wrote to
Mugnano asking for her sacramentals and shared our prayer of petition. A dear Irish nun, Sister Mary Philomena,
who spoke English, sent a reply, the holy cord and oil, chaplet and prayer card. She encouraged us to have every
hope that our prayer would be answered, and cautioned us to pray always for God’s Holy Will. Thus, we knew the
Shrine still existed and that her devotion was alive. We began to copy prayers, her life story and celebrated her
feast day with a beautiful cake decorated in her honor.
After having shared our new devotion with my mother, she generously shared with me a First Class Relic of St.
Philomena. Thus, very much encouraged, we prayed all the more fervently. During this time, we lived in La Grande,
Oregon. After all our prayers, we moved to Dickinson, Texas. At the local parish Church book store, we found a one-
page article on Pauline Jaricot and the Living Rosary. Up until this time, we had done all that we knew possible to
win the favor of Saint Philomena, but here was another lever in our favor! We formed a group of 15 souls to pray
the Living Rosary for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and in honor of St. Philomena, its Patroness and
Protectress. One Rosary grew into two and these two Rosaries quadrupled by the end of the year. We initiated a
monthly letter to our members encouraging them to be faithful to their Decade and included something spiritual,
uplifting and instructive.
We longed to have the members of the Living Rosary take part in the Confraternity of St. Philomena , and wrote again to
Mugnano begging that this favor be granted to our members. In response, we received a note from Fr. Braschi,
Rector of the Shrine, that he would like to come to America and visit with us. We were shocked. We had nothing
and wished only to be a part of the Confraternity . Fr. Braschi realized that a group in America, organized with a

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newsletter and with the ability to reach numbers, was just what was needed to rekindle the devotion of Saint
Philomena and spread it all the way back to Italy. Devotion to Saint Philomena was dying out in Europe and Father
was not able to get any articles or information on the shrine published in the local papers. When Father heard of us,
he said the Holy Ghost inspired him to visit us. He had every hope that we might rekindle the devotion and spread
it to all the world and back, again, to Italy.
We paid for Fr. Braschi's journey to America, cared for his needs during his visit, translated the books and
information he gave us and began, at once, to animate all the members of the Living Rosary to love their patroness
and honor her in every way possible. My husband was not employed at the time and I was doing double nursing
shifts to fund the printing and mailing of information and decades. It was a marvelous plunge into this faith filled
apostolate - one Decade built upon another. St. Philomena helped everyone who called upon her then and she still
does. Books were published, sacramentals distributed and we continued to mail out our monthly bulletin which, in
time, grew into the beautiful little booklet you have in your hands, the Dedicated Decades. The publication is the
lifeline of the Living Rosary. During the many years to follow, Fr. Braschi was sad not to have received financial
assistance from us. But, everything that was given to us went right back into our universal and heroic missionary
effort to reach souls with the Living Rosary. Still, pilgrims began to come to Mugnano and their support, he greatly
felt. Thus, his dream had come true: to revive the Shrine and to restore the pilgrimage to Mugnano, and our
mission of the Living Rosary was spread throughout the world.
Father Braschi had given to us through our spiritual director the privilege of blessing, annually, the oil in union with
the principal Shrine. Much of what we did was done for the Third World Countries and it had to be done without any
expectation or hope of payment. But, our beloved St. Philomena seemed to care for all their needs and ours. The
great goal and ambition was to help her reach them, so they would have her blessing, strength and courage. She
brought to them the Anchor of Hope! In truth, we could not donate much to the Shrine in Mugnano, and what little
we were able to send was returned to us by the Rector.
Our entire effort was focused on the missions of the world, after the great heart of our beloved Pauline. Still, we
knew that all we were doing was contributing to the flow of pilgrims to Mugnano and they would lavish donations on
the Shrine. This pilgrimage grew and grew and grew. All that has been done in Mugnano is the fruit of the seed
planted by Pauline Jaricot through her spiritual Family of the Living Rosary. In the early days of growth, Fr. Braschi
designated to the spiritual director of each group, who headed the Confraternity of St. Philomena, the privilege of
blessing the oil, annually, in union with Mugnano and distributing it in their district.
During the following years, the pilgrimage to Mugnano continued and increased while the Living Rosary grew
expeditiously. As our area of designation with the work of the Living Rosary was universal, we began to receive
demands for Saint Philomena’s sacramentals, which poured in to us from our members throughout the world.
Everything was given to them, absolutely free of charge. The mission area is vast and huge amounts of
sacramentals were needed. Don Francesco de Lucia had encouraged Pauline Jaricot in every way possible to spread
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Fr. Braschi is deeply indebted to the Living Rosary in Dickinson, Texas for the revival of the devotion to St.
Philomena in the whole world and we knew he would want us to continue in the tradition of Ven. Pauline Jaricot. We
remained in constant communications with the Vicar of His Holiness, Canisius Van Lierde, until his death. He
encouraged us, again and again, to continue and increase our effort. Truly, Saint Philomena has guided us all these
years and blessed this heroic effort for souls. I believe very firmly that, as Pauline Jaricot was solely responsible for
the introduction and culmination of devotion to Saint Philomena, bringing about her elevation to the Holy Altar, our
dear Saint Philomena will be singularly instrumental in bringing the cause of our beloved foundress to the elevation
of the Holy Altar. They both exist only to bring souls to the Lamb of God and to support them greatly as they bear
with faith, hope and joy, their heavy daily burdens.
We are the Living Rosary with a firm and God-given obligation to honor Saint Philomena as our patroness and
protectress and spread her devotion and sacramentals. Fr. Braschi as Rector of the principal Shrine carries the
privilege and obligation to unite and spread her devotion throughout the whole world. Never can there be a
competition for power, or money, or control of either of these beautiful devotions which reside securely in the
bosom of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Letter of Support
Rev. Jose Fernandez
Spiritual Director
St. Paul Cursillo Center
4000 Belk, Houston, TX 77087
PHONE: (713) 643-7682
FAX: (713) 643-0030
November 29th, 2002
To Whom it May Concern:
This letter is to verify the Church status of the Universal Living Rosary Association located in the Houston-Galveston
Diocese with their Center situated in Dickinson, Texas. The family has been known to me for many years.
Their Central Office on Holly Street is the hub of great missionary activity which reaches the Catholic Church
throughout the world; serving the faithful through the prayer association of the Holy Rosary and providing
sacramentals and leaflets along with the printed publication of the Dedicated Decades in many different languages.
The work is done in a quiet and humble way, within the diocese, centered around the Rosary and Scapular, united
for peace in the world through prayer. In our day and age of war and unrest, it is a great source of grace and
strength for all Christians.
All the best to you during this holy Season,

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Rev. Fr. Jose Fernandez, Director
November 13, 2008
Dear Patti,
Thank you for the recent packet of material and for sharing with me the life story of Venerable Pauline-Marie
Jaricot. Her devotion to the Eucharist and to Our Lady is a great example of love and prayerful thanksgiving. It is
my hope that, through such devotion, the hearts of many will more deeply know and serve Our Lord.
Sincerely in Christ,
Daniel Cardinal DiNardo
Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
1700 San Jacinto
Houston, Texas 77002
Click here to see the letter
Letter from Cardinal Otunga
The History of the Universal Arch

Confraternity of Saint Philomena
The Universal Arch Confraternity of Saint Philomena has its humble beginnings,
was born and raised to Universal, all in Paris France.
In France, after the death of the Holy Curé of
Ars, Saint John Vianney, in 1859, a zealous priest in Paris, called Father Luis
Petit, consecrated his life to making the Little Saint known and loved. "Far from
us the thought," said the virtuous Father Petit, "to make the cult of Saint
Philomena a devotional that could be damaging to the cult of the most Holy

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Virgin, or even more, the adoration of the only God. That would not be Christian,
as we know Christianity to be from the evangelical teachings of the Church. With
our devotion to Saint Philomena we bless God who is reflected in His Saints.
Honoring Saint Philomena we proclaim the power of God in the strength of His
Martyrs, and His Infinite Goodness in the favors He concedes to the prayers of
His Saints. This was the theology of the Holy Curé of Ars, and this will be ours
also".
In August, 1876, the first copy of the Messenger of Saint Philomena was issued
from the headquarters in Paris. This publication spread devotion to her
throughout the entire world.
In the tracks of the venerable Father Petit, the Sanctuary published the bulletin,
The Voice of Saint Philomena under the guidance of the highly esteemed rector,
Monsignor Gennaro Ippolito. This same priest, on February 10th, 1884, at Paris,
with the blessing and approval of the Cardinal Giubert, founded the Confraternity
of Saint Philomena, called also, the Work of Saint Philomena. So, this is how the
Work of Saint Philomena was born. Still today, following the directives of the
Sanctuary at Mugnano, it spreads her devotion throughout the world.
In testimony of the above, we publish the following letter:
Very Reverend Father Rector, everywhere to England there can be found
devotion to Saint Philomena, and some wish that the Confraternity of the Saint
be established in this country. In the diocese of Leads there is a priest, looked
upon favorably by the Bishop, who is disposed to act as Spiritual Director of the
Confraternity should it eventuate. He would like to know if there is in existence a
stable Constitution or Rule for this Confraternity, and he would be very grateful
to receive information about this point. In the hope of receiving your kind reply, I
give you my most sincere regards, Mrs. Margaret Seddon, Near Keighley, Yorks,
England. 11.6.1985.
The Confraternity of Saint Philomena was raised to the rank of Arch Confraternity
by Pope Leo XIII, November, 1886
On June 16th, 1907, the Supreme Pontiff Pius X, receiving in audience Father
Petit, from Paris, the director of the Work of Saint Philomena, exclaimed: "Ah,
Saint Philomena! It is very sad to read what has been written recently against
her" (The Holy Father was referring to certain detractors of the cult of Saint
Philomena who dared to maintain that our Little Saint did not even exist.) "It is

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incredible," continued the Holy Father, "that such things can come about without
them (the detractors) looking at the great argument in favor of the saint, the
Holy Curé of Ars. By her, in her name, and through her intercession, he obtained
innumerable graces and continual prodigies."
To definitively affirm the cult of Saint Philomena and to give the final word, on
May 21, 1912, Pope Pius raised the Venerable Arch confraternity of Saint
Philomena into the Universal Arch confraternity with the Apostolic Brief, "Pias
Fidelium Societates," in which he states very clearly: "We decree with the
present words that it shall remain always stable, valid and effective, that it
receive and obtain its effects fully and completely, in this way it must be
regularly judged and defined, and if it proceeds in any other way, it will be null
and without value, whatever the authority might be…"
Aims of the Work of Saint Philomena
(Universal Arch Confraternity)
The Work of Saint Philomena is an association of prayer and apostolate which
resolves:
Commitment to a life according to the Gospel of Christ in the intentions which
Pope Leo XIII and Saint Pius X have recommended, promoting them under the
patronage of Saint Philomena and the Holy Curé of Ars:
Promotion of the Gospel message in the world of work.
Christian education of children and youth.
Prayer for vocations and the sanctification of the clergy.
Means: To realize these various aims, the Works always avails itself of the
prayers, and of the spiritual and material support of its members. The offerings
of members are used for the diffusion of the cult through press publications,
information releases, pamphlets, etc. The Works publishes a special bulletin, The
Voice of Saint Philomena.
Organization:
1. Little Members. This section comprises children under 14 years of age who
have confided themselves to the protection of Saint Philomena. The Little
Members of Saint Philomena, if they wish, can do much for the reign of Christ,
since prayer is the great force in the world.

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2. Members: These place themselves under the protection of Saint Phil0omena.
They unite their prayers and their apostolate together with those of the other
Members of the Archconfraternity on behalf of the other members and for the
great intentions that the Church has entrusted to the Association.
3. Members of The Cord of Saint Philomena: Members of the Archconfraternity
who wish to place themselves in particular manner under the protection of
Philomena, or who desire to imitate more the example of the young martyr in the
perfect practice of the duties of their state, carry as a badge, tied around their
body, a white and red Cord which represents the virtues of their patron Saint:
Faith and the purity of virginity;
Charity and the generosity of martyrdom.
The Cord is a sign of special devotion towards her, and is carried to obtain special
graces, particularly that of following a chaste life according to one's state. It is
recommended for those who carry the Cord, to recite every day the following
prayer:
Dear Saint Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, pray for us, so that through your
powerful intercession, we may obtain that purity of spirit and of heart that leads
to perfect Love of God. Amen.
His Holiness Leo XIII approved and enriched this devotion with precious
indulgences in the Apostolic Brief of April 4, 1884.
Institution and Enrolment: Any priest or lay person involved in the promoting of
evangelical ideals may form a Pious Confraternity of Saint Philomena, with the
approval of the local bishop and the consent of the rector of the Sanctuary of
Saint Philomena. Any Confraternity of Saint Philomena must conform to the
principles of the statutes of the Universal Archconfraternity of Saint Philomena
instituted by Saint Pius X in the Apostolic Brief "Pias Fidelium Societates" of May
21, 1912. Generous souls who desire to work fervently for the diffusion of the
reign of God, find in the Archconfraternity of Saint Philomena favorable terrain to
satisfy their ideals and their devotions.
OBLIGATIONS
1. Each member must wear the cord of Saint Philomena as a cincture under their
clothing or carry it around with them. The cord must be blessed by the Rector of

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the Sanctuary or a priest authorized by the Rector.
2. Each member must read and encourage others to read the life of Saint
Philomena.
3. Each member should recite daily, where possible, the Chaplet of Saint
Philomena.
4. Each member should attend Mass and receive Communion on the 10th
January, 25th May, 10th and the 11th August.
5. Members are encouraged to make an annual donation according to their
means, if at all possible.
PRIVILEGES
1. Mass will be celebrated every second Friday of the month for members living
and dead.
2. The members will benefit in all of the prayers offered at the Sanctuary.
3. Members will gain a plenary indulgence* when one wears the Cord**, on the
feast days of 10th January, 25th May, 10th and the 11th August.
4. A plenary indulgence* is gained at the hour of death provided one invokes the
name of Jesus, with one's own lips or heart. This same indulgence can be gained
if for a grave reason one is unable to go to Confession or receive Communion,
provided one is repentant.
*Under the conditions laid down by the Church; confession, communion and
prayer for the Holy Father, are required to gain a plenary indulgence.
**Pope Leo XIII approved and indulged Saint Philomena's blessed cord on the
15th December 1883.
Fra Andresito
The lithograph of Fr. Andresito holding
his favorite image of his beloved Saint
Philomena.
January 10th is the day that marks the
birth of a very special devotee of Saint
Philomena from South America,
affectionately called “The Begger Saint”,
The lithograph of Fr. Andresito holding Andrés García Acosta, better known as
his favorite image of his beloved Saint
Philomena.

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Fray Andresito. Fray Andresito was born on
the 10th of January in the year 1800. Fray Andresito became widely known in
Chile for his tireless spreading of the devotion to Saint Philomena and was
admired for being a pioneer of the social action in his country. He was dedicated
to working the streets of Santiago, offering charity where needed, preaching the
Gospel, and becoming a saint of the workers. Devotion to him became
widespread after his body was discovered incorrupt two years following death,
which resulted in his cause being put to canonization. His body was exposed for
three days for public veneration at the foot of the consecrated altar to Santa
Filomena in the church of the Recoleta Franciscans.
On the day of his death, the newspaper "El
Progreso" reported, "...his Evangelic charity
had gained him such popularity that we may
say there must be no person in Santiago
who didn't know him. Santiago's poor have
lost a great support and the comfort for
their disgrace…". The publication, "El
Mercurio" wrote, "The fame of his virtues,
the sane doctrine his lips poured out, the
Christian consolation with which he calmed the soul's sufferings, the sublime
charity with which he assisted the poor in their sickness, gave him the popularity
he had in life and the status of Saint with which the people identified him...".
Because hundreds of readers from all social classes requested a portrait of the
friar, a lithograph was made for sale at the paper's agency.
Fr. Andresito continued to be written about throughout the
nineteenth century. He became known as "charity's apostle", "endless goodness
apostle", "religious saint", etc. In the latter part of the century, he began to
receive international recognition and in 1893, steps were taken to begin his
cause for beatification.
The twentieth century saw a profusion of writings
about his life. Many people visited his grave and
more endearing names were given to him..."the
humble Franciscan", "the pioneer of workers'
movement", "protector of the weak" and "doctor
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the Sisterhood of Fr. Andrés, which spread
throughout Chile. Fifty years later, Fr. Jaime
Calderón founded the society, Friends of Fr. Andresito. There were published lists
of hundreds of devoted from Chile and abroad.
To this day, he is still revered by fellow Franciscans across the globe and his
memory lives strong in the hearts of South Americans as a shining example of a
Holy Soul dedicated to the Glory of the Name of God.
Santa Filomena Church, Santiago, Chile >>>
Feast Days
January 10th
Birthday of the Saint Philomena
Sunday after January 10th
Patronage day of Saint Philomena
May 25th
Celebration of the finding of the Holy Body of Saint Philomena
August 10th
Celebration of the Translation of the Holy Body and the martyrdom of Saint
Philomena
August 11th
Liturgical feast day in honor of Saint Philomena
August 13th
Celebration of the name of Santa Filumena (Saint Philomena)
Second Sunday of August
Solemn festivities in honor of Saint Philomena

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Our Centers Around the World
Africa
Paul E. Ekpe
St. Joseph’s Anglophone
P.O. Box 3252, Yaounde
Cameroon
Tel. 237 223 7387
Mobile: 237 514 9550
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Fr. W. Ghiorghis Matheos

St. Mary’s Major Seminary
P.O. Box 22308
Addis
Ethiopia
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East Africa
Fr. Patrick M. Ezeonu, CMF
Catholic University
P.O. 24205, Karen
Nairobi
Kenya
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Fax: 254-2-891261
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Lawrence Esiangu
The Living Rosary
P.O. Box 77, Kumi
Uganda
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P.O. Box 30877
Kampala
Uganda
Tel: 256 71 989255
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Major Godfrey Wababa

National Center – Living Rosary
P.O. Box 386, Entebbe
Uganda
Tel: 256 772927945
Fax: 256 421071
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Southern Africa
Sr. Clara Rapholo, SCIM
Provincial House
P.O. Box 692, Maseru 100
Lesotho
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Andrea Mateyisi
St. James High School
P.O. Box 14
Mokhotlong 300
Lesotho
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Hospital Area
P.O. Box Mf 228
Mafeteng 900
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PO Box 31638
Chichiri, Blantyre 3,
Malawi
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Ann Koenig
24A Morc: “Salt Pans”
Tamarin
Mauritius
Tel: 7373522 Ext.50
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Queen Victoria Dlamini

F 332 Umlazi Township
P.O. Umlazi 4031
Kzn
South Africa
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Dryton Gabriel Chipeta

P.O. Box 51207
Lusaka 10101
Zambia
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West Africa
Anthony Foster Oduro
St. Philomena’s House
St. Peter’s Cathedral
P.O. Box 2639, Kumasi
Ghana
Tel: 051-29151
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Mr Kalou Angel Auguste Clement J.

Yopougon
23 P.O. Box 3358
Abidjan 23 Côte D’ivoire
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Sheteh Kingsley Newuh, CMF

Claretian Institute of Philosophy
Maryland Nekede
P.O. Box 328, Owerri, Imo State
Nigeria
Tel: 2348034405317
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South America
Madre Nelly Montero, rscj
Casilla 126, Villa Alemana
Chile
Tel. 5632-950-559
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Fr. Francisco Solano

De La Iglesia de Talteva
1 Cuandra al Lago
Casa 411, Calle Real
Granada
Nicaragua
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Austria 1400
Asunción
Paraguay
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Roaud y Paz Soldan #160
San Isidro Lima 27
Peru
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Asia
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Claretian Publications
P.O. Box 1608
Macau, China
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Joseph Roche
#20(8) Porchezhian Street
Ullagaram, Nanganallur
Chennai 600 061
Tamil Nadu
India
Tel: 044 2224 0160
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Jln. Amabi, RT 34, RW 10
Oebufu, Kupang
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Yoshiko Takahashi
#203 Kamimeguro 1-2-11
Meguro-ku 153-0051
Tokyo
Japan
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Br. A. Uthayadas
151/8, Jampettah Street
Colombo 13
Sri Lanka
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Bishop Abraham Than,

P.O. Box 25,
Maesai Chiangrai 57130,
Thailand
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Central Asia
Afzaal Anwar Khokhar
House No.P-3553, Street No.5
Block A, Khokhar Chowk
Barkatpura, Faisalabad
Pakistan
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Myanmar
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Teresita Y. Aller
7, Manuel Quezon St.
Binaobao Bantayan Island
Cebu 6052
Philippines
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Brother Arthur Villas

Banawa Elementary School
Banawa, Cebu City 6000
Philippines
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Western Asia
Fr. Angelo Ison, OFM
St. Savior’s Monastery
P.O. Box 186,
Jerusalem 91001
Israel
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John Kayrouz
P.O. Box 397
Ghadir-Jounieh
Lebanon
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Europe
Anne Curran
The Universal Living Rosary
P.O. Box 9964
Colchester, Essex CO1 9FN
England
E-mail: ulraengland@hotmail.com
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Sr. Mella Smith

Dominican Sisters, St. Mary’s
Cabra, Dublin 7
Ireland
Tel: 01 838 0567
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Fr. Michael U. Akaigwe

Parrocchia Gesu Buon Pastore
Via Martiri di Monte Sole, 10
40129, Bologna
Italy
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Irma Michalskyte
Architektu 168-23
04203, Vilnius-49
Lithuania
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Victor Cefai
20 Pace Street
Sliema, SLM 11
Malta
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Antonina Janusz
Ul. Kochanowskiego 2/9
39/400 Tarnobrzeg
Poland
Fax: 015 23 38 90
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Monica Opris
Str. Dezrobirii
Aleea E. Chinezu, Bl. G1, Ap.29
Craiova 20890,
Romania
Tel. 40 251 542 116
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Elena Tanco
Bul. AL. Vlahuta Nr.59
BL. 141, sc. D et 4, Ap.17
500398 Brasov
Romania
Tel. 011 40 68 310 526
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Santiago Pelaez Garrido

C/ Palencia 8o Fase Urb
Encinar del Alberche
Villa del Prado (Madrid)
Spain 28630
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Eastern Europe
Fr. Ivan Kolodiy
A/C 841, m. Lviv – 8
79008 Ukraine
Tel: 3806765435
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Oceania
Mrs. Beth Burns
“Zeitoun” 1 Haywood Lane
Lagoon Grass, Nsw 2480
Australia
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Raffa Aditamana
Pacific Regional Seminary
P.O. Box 1200
Suva
Fiji
Tel. 3382489
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Dr. Baladina Kavoa

St. Philomena Medical Clinic
P.O. Box 1302
Tavua
Fiji
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John Saun
Universal Living Rosary
P.O. Box 213
Maprik, ESP
Papua New Guinea
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Mrs. Pauline Ireng

P.O. Box 1420
Boroko NCD, Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
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Contact Information - Patti Melvin, Director,

Universal Living Rosary Association, P.O.Box
1303, Dickinson, Texas 77539, U.S.A., Fax: (281)
337-3722 / (281) 309-9821, E-Mail:
Filomena@Philomena.org, Web: www.Philomena.
org, (Spanish) www.RosarioViviente.org, (Pakistan)
www.ULRAPak.com, (UK) www.WaysideAudio.
com, (Ukraine) www.LivingRosary.org.ua
Saint Philomena Churches & Schools

Aruba:
Paradera
Santa Filomena
Paradera 51
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Paradera
Phone: (297)582-1400
Fax: (297)582-4923
Email
Mass Schedule:
Monday thru Friday 7:00 p.m. Except Wednesday
Saturday 7:00 p.m.
Sunday 10:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m.
Every second Friday of the month 6:30 p.m. The Holy Rosary of Saint Philomena
7:00 p.m. Holy Mass in Honor of Saint Philomena. This is the same mass celebrated in Mugnano del
Cardinale which is dedicated to the intentions of all of the members Universal Archconfraternity of Saint Philomena.
Diocese of Willesmstad
St. Nicolas
Colegio Santa Filomena (Primary School 1-6)
Address: Weg Seroe Preto 2
St. Nicolas
Phone: (297) 5845802
Fax: (297) 5845599
Email
St. Nicolas
Filomena College Mavo
Weg Seroe Preto 4
St. Nicolas
Phone: (297) 5845156
Australia:
Moree
St Philomena's School
55 Boston Street
Moree 2400
Phone: (02) 6752 1577
Fax: (02) 6752 4250
Website
Park Ridge
St Philomena Independent Catholic School
61 Koplick Road
Park Ridge QLD 4125
Phone: [61] 7 3802 0088
Fax: [61] 7 3802 0360

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Canada:
Draper
Sainte Philomène
893
Street St-Jean-Baptist
C.P. 5088, Draper, QC, J6R 2K8
Phone: (450) 691-0609
Fax: (450) 691-7414
Mass Schedule:
Saturday, 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m.
Diocese of Valleyfield
Fort Erie
Saint Philomena Catholic School
1332 Phillips Street
Fort Erie, ON L2A 3C2
Phone: (905) 871-1842
Fax: (905) 871-8898
Website
Fortierville
Sainte Philomène
210 rue Principale
Fortierville, Québec
Phone: (819) 287-4530
Fax: (819) 292-2740
Website
Mass Schedule:
Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, 11:00 a.m.
Diocese of Québec
Howe Island
Saint Philomena
c/o St. John the Evangelist Parish
270 Stone Street S
Gananoque, Ontario K7G 2A1
Phone: (613) 382-2017
Fax: (613) 382-5002
Mass Schedule:

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Saturday, 7:00 p.m. (July & August only)
Sunday, 8:45 a.m. or 8:30 a.m. in July & August
Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. (Jul/Aug only)
Chile:
Quintero
Santa Filomena
G. Arrieta 250, Quintero
Phone: 930517
Diocese of Valparaiso
Colegio Santa Filomena
Gregorio Arrieta Nº 246
Quintero, Valparaíso
Phone: 32-930188 - 930758
Santiago
Santa Filomena
Santa Filomena 315
Recoleta, Santiago
Phone: 7323475, 7323475
Mass Schedule:
Tuesday through Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, 12:30 a.m.
Confessions:
Monday through Friday
5:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
Diocese of Santiago
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France:
Le Cannet
Sainte Philomène Church
Le Cannet
Cedex
Institution Sainte-Philomene
19 A Boulevard Hanauer
67504 HAGUENAU Cedex
France
Website
India:
Mysore

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Saint Philomena's College
Bannimantap, Mysore, 570015
Phone: 0821-490728/496155/497915/498003
Fax: 091-821-498013
Karnataka
Saint Philomena College
Post Box No. 203
Darbe - 574 202
Puttur, D.K. Karnataka
Website
Koonammavu
Saint Philomena's Church
Koonammavu
Mass Schedule:
Friday - 7 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 4.30 p.m.
Website
Archdiocese of Verapoly
Mysore
St. Philomena's Church
Contact Address:
St. Joseph Cathedral Church
Ashoka Road, Mysore - 570001
Phone : 0821- 2563148
Tourist Information Center
Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation
# 49, 2nd Floor, Khanija Bhavan, West Entrance, Race Course Road
Bangalore - 560 001, Karnataka
Ph: 080-2352901 / 2352902 / 2352903
Fax : 080-2352963
Mass Schedule:
Weekdays: Morning - 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.; Evening - 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Sundays: Morning 5:00 a.m. - 6:00 am, 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.; Evening 6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Italy:
Avellino
Santuario Santa Filomena
83027 Mugnano del Cardinale
Avellino
Italy

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Website
Santuario Santa Filomena

Archdiocese of Nola
Archbishop of Nola
Monsignor Beniamino DEPALMA Arcivescovo di Nola
via San Felice 29
80035 Nola (Na)
Italy
Bishop of Nola's secretary, Don Annello +39 081 512 3525 (call mornings)
Website
New Zealand:
New Plymouth
St Philomena’s Parish
112 Brooklands Road
New Plymouth
Phone: 752-2778
Fax: 061 481625
Mass Schedule:
Sunday, 11:00 a.m.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 9:00 a.m.
Reconciliation:
Saturday 11:30 a.m. (St. Josephs), after weekly masses by appointment.
Website
Nigeria:
Ishiobisii
St Philomena’s Parish
Isu Njaba, Isu L.G.A.
Ishiobisii
Diocese of Orlu
Benin City
St Philomena Maternity / Hospital
Dawson Road
Box 2434
Benin City
Phone: 052-250433
Philippines:
Cagayan
St. Philomena Parish
Alcala
Cagayan, Philippines 3507
Phone: (078) 848-1017

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South Africa:
Durban
Saint Philomena's Children's Home
92 Rippon Road
Sydenham
Durban
4000
P O Box 19194
Dormerton
4015
Phone: (031) 208 4187
Fax: (031) 207 1256
Website
United Kingdom & Ireland:
England:
Derby
Convent of Mercy Saint Philomenas
Beechwood, Derby
DE22 1AU
Phone: (01332) 550122
Essex
St Philomena's Roman Catholic Preparatory School
Hadleigh Road
Essex
Frinton-on-sea
CO13 9HQ
Phone: 01255674492
Kent
St Philomena's Roman Catholic Primary School
Chelsfield Road
Orpington
Kent
BR5 4DR
Phone: 01689 826550
Fax: 01689 826550
Liverpool
OUR LADY AND ST PHILOMENA (Parish No 168)
Sparrow Hall Road
Telephone 0151 546 3574

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Fax 0151 546 7316
Email philipinch@btinternet.com
Resident Rev Philip Inch VF
Rev Andrew Unsworth
Address: Our Lady Queen of Martyrs and St Swithin
Stonebridge Lane
Liverpool
L11 9AZ
Masses Sunday 9.45am
Holydays 11 am
Weekdays Mon, Fri 9.15 am; Wed 7.30 pm
Website
Archdiocese of Liverpool
Merseyside
Our Lady and St Philomena's Catholic Primary School
Sparrow Hall Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L9 6BU
Phone: 0151 5258552
Staffordshire
Saint Filomena`s Roman Cathoic Church at Caverswall

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Saint Filumena's Catholic Primary School
Caverswall,
Blythe Bridge,
Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire,
ST11 9EA
Phone: 01782 392367
Website
Surrey
Saint Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls
Pound Street
Carshalton
Surrey
SM5 3PS
Phone: 020 8642 2025
Fax: 020 8643 7925
Website
Scotland:
Motherwell
Carfin Lourdes Grotto
Saint Philomena Shrine within the Grotto
Taylor Avenue
Carfin
Motherwell
ML1 5AJ
Tel: 01698 263308
Fax: 01698 268941
Email
Glasgow
Saint Philomena Parish
1255 Royston Road
Glasgow, G33 1EH
Phone: (0141) 7704 237
Mass Schedule:
Saturday Vigil: 6:00 p.m.
Sunday Morning: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m.
Sunday Evening: 5:00 p.m.
Archdiocese of Glasgow

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Saint Philomena's Primary School
21 Robroyston Road
Glasgow G33 1EA
Phone: (0141) 7704 134
Winchburgh, Broxburn
Saint Philomena Catholic Church
Niddry Road
Winchburgh, Broxburn, EH52 6RY
Phone: 01506 852040
Mass Schedule:
Sunday,11:45 a.m.
Holy Days of Obligation : 7:30 p.m.
Confessions as announced
Archdiocese of Saint Andrews & Edinburgh
Wales Northern Ireland:
No Churches or Shrines to St Philomena (if you know of one please let us know)
Northern Ireland:
No Churches or Shrines to St Philomena (if you know of one please let us know)
Ireland:
Dublin
St Philomena's
Palmerstown
Dublin 20
Mass Schedule:
Sunday Vigil, 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:00 noon
Holy Day Vigil, 7:30 p.m.
Holy Day, 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, 10:00 a.m.
Archdiocese of Dublin
Limerick
Saint Philomena's Preparatory School
South Circular Road
Limerick, Ireland
Phone: 061 310644
Fax: 061 481625
Website

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Westport
Sisters of Mary Immaculate & Saint Philomena
Mount Tabor Hermitage
Drummin,
Westport,
Co. Mayo.
Phone: 353 (0)98 21599
Website
United States:
Carson, California
21900 South Main Street
Carson, CA 90745
Phone: (310) 835-7161
Fax: (310) 830-5494
San Pedro Pastoral Region
Deanery 19
Website & Website
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Saint Philomena Hall
21900 Main St, Carson, CA 90745
(310) 830-9452

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Saint Philomena Elementary School
21832 Main Street
Carson, CA 90745-0907
Phone: (310) 835-4827
Saint Philomena Religious Education
Phone: (310) 830-6180
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 5:00 p.m. (Spanish), 7:00 p.m.
Sunday: 6:15 a.m. , 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m.; 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m. (Korean), 3:00 p.m. (Spanish),
4:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m.
Monday thru Friday: 6:30 a.m., 8:00 a.m.
Wednesday: 7:00 p.m., (1st.)
Friday: 7:00 p.m.
Holy Day & Vigil: 6:30 a.m., 8:00 a.m.; 12:00 noon; 5:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m.
Vigil: 7:00 p.m.
Adoration:
(1st) Friday: All night after 7:00 p.m. Mass.
Confessions:
Saturday, Eve of Holy Days, (1st) Friday 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. (1st) Friday, 6:15 to 7:00 p.m.
Devotions:
Perpetual Help Novena, Wednesday 7:00 p.m.
Wheelchair Access: Yes

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Sacramento , California
St. Philomene Parish
2428 Bell Street
Sacramento, CA 95825
Phone: (916) 481-6757
Fax: (916) 481-1603
Website
Diocese of Sacramento
Mass Schedule:
Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, 11:15 a.m. (Spanish)
Weekdays: 9:00 a.m. (main Church only)
Holy Days: 9:00 a.m.; 7:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Reconciliation
Saturday: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. and by appointment.
School
St. Philomene Elementary
2320 El Camino Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95821
Phone: (916) 489-1506
Website

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Honolulu, Hawaii
3300 Ala Laulani Street
Honolulu, HI 96818-2837
Phone: (808) 839-1876
Website
Diocese of Honolulu
Mass Schedule:
Weekdays: at 7:15 am
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at Saint Philomena
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at Holy Family
Saturdays: 5:30 pm (vigil for Sunday) at Saint Philomena
Sundays: 7:00 a.m. at Saint Philomena, 9:00 a.m. at Holy Family, 11:00 a.m. at Holy Family, 7:00 p.m. at
Holy Family
Special Devotions:
First Fridays at Holy Family 7:15 a.m. Mass
7:45 a.m. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 8:30 a.m. Benediction
Saint Philomena Early Learning Center
3300 Ala Laulani St
Honolulu, HI 96818-0968

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Chicago, Illinois
1921 North Kedvale Avenue
Chicago, IL 60639-0000
Phone: (773) 489-1100
Fax: (773) 489-1088
Website
Archdiocese of Chicago
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 5:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. (Spanish); 1:00 p.m. (Spanish)
Monday: Friday 8:30 a.m.
1st Friday: 4:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Holy Day & Vigil: 9:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m.
Adoration: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Confessions: Friday: 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saint Philomena School
4131 West Cortland Street
Chicago, IL 60639-0606
Phone: (773) 235-0120

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Monticello, Illinois
Saint Philomena Cahtolic Church
St. Michael Catholic Church
1301 North Market Street
Monticello, IL 61856
Phone: (217) 762-2566
Fax: (217) 762-2567
Website
Diocese of Peoria
Mass Schedule:
Saint Philomena:
Saturday: 4:30 p.m.
Sunday: 9:00 & 11:30 a.m.
Wed-Fri: 7:30 a.m.
St. Michael:
Sunday: 7:30 a.m.
Tuesdays, First Friday: 5:30 p.m.
Holy Hour:
Saturday: 9:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m.
Reconciliation:
Saint Philomena:
Friday: after 7:30 a.m. Mass
Saturday: 3:45, 4:15 p.m.
St. Michael:
Tuesday: 5:00-5:20 p.m.
Sunday: 7:00-7:20 a.m.

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Peoria, Illinois
3300 North Twelve Oaks Drive
Peoria, IL 61604
(309) 682-8642
Fax: (309) 682-8955
Website
Diocese of Peoria
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 4:30 p.m.
Sunday: 7:30, 9:00 & 11:00 a.m., 7:30 p.m.
Holy Day Mass Schedule:
Vigil (evening before): 5:30 p.m.
Holy Day: 7:00 & 8:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday: 7:00 & 8:00 a.m.
Saturday: 8:00 a.m.
Saint Philomena Catholic School
3216 North Emery Avenue
Peoria, Illinois 61604
(309) 685-1208
Website

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Brookville, Indiana
Saints Philomena and Cecilia Catholic Church
16194 St. Mary's Road
Brookville, IN 47012
Phone: (765) 647-0310
Website
Archdiocese of Indianapolis
Mass Schedule
Sunday: 7:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. (High Mass)
Monday: Wednesday, & Thursday: 8:00 a.m. & 12:00 p.m.
Tuesday & Friday: 12:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Saturday: 7:15 a.m. & 8:30 a.m.
Holy Days: 7:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. (High Mass)
Confessions:
40 minutes before Sunday and Holy Day Masses.
20 minutes before weekday Masses.
30 minutes before Mass on First Friday & Saturday.
Lafayette, Indiana
Saint Philomena Center
810 North Street
Lafayette, IN 47901-1160
Phone: (765) 742-4884

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Labadieville, Louisiana
108 Brulé Road
Mail: P. O. Box 99
Labadieville, LA 70372-0099
Phone: (985) 526-4247
Fax: (985) 526-4128
Website
Diocese of Baton Rouge
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: Vigil 5:00 p.m.;
Sunday: 7:45 and 10:00 a.m.;
Holy Day: vigil 5:00 p.m.;
Holy Days: 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Saturday Reconciliation: 4:00 p.m.
Reconciliation: Saturday, one hour before mass, half hour before Tuesday Mass or by appointment.
120 Convent Street
Labadieville, LA 70372-0703

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Detroit, Michigan
4281 Marseilles
Detroit MI 48224-1446
Phone: (313) 882-4300
Fax: (313) 882-1661
Archdiocese of Detroit
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 4:00 p.m.
Sunday: 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.
Monday: 9:00 a.m. (Communion service)
Tuesday: 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday: 9:00 a.m.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m.
Holydays: 9:00 a.m.; 7:00 p.m.

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Livingston,
New Jersey
Saint Philomena’s Roman Catholic Church
386 South Livingston Avenue
Livingston, New Jersey 07039
Phone: (973) 992-0994
Fax: (973) 992-0970
Website
Archdiocese of Newark
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 Noon
Weekdays: 7:00 a.m. (Mon-Fri), 8:30 a.m., and 7:00 p.m. (Mon-Thurs)
First Friday: of Every Month 7:00p.m.
Novena Wednesdays after 8:30 a.m. Mass and 7:00 p.m.
Eucharistic Adoration:
First Tuesday of Each Month 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Benediction at 9:15 p.m.
Third Friday of Each Month: 12:00 Noon to 3:30 p.m.
Penance:
Saturday: 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Anytime Upon Request
Saint Philomena's Convent
392 South Livingston Avenue
Livingston, NJ 07039
Phone: (973) 992-1581

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Franklinville, New York
Saint Philomena Roman Catholic Church
26 North Plymouth Avenue
Franklinville, NY 14737-1020
Phone: (585) 676-3629
Diocese of Buffalo
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 8:30 a.m.
Daily Mass: 8:00 a.m.
Glenburn, North Dakota
310 North 3rd Avenue
Glenburn, ND 58740
Phone: (701) 362-7571
Fax: (701) 362-7571

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Website
Diocese of Bismarck
Mass Schedule:
Monday thru Saturday, 9:00 a.m.
Sunday: 8:30 a.m. (CT)
Selfridge, North Dakota

1 Mission Drive
Selfridge, ND 58568
Phone: (701) 854-3473
Website
Diocese of Bismarck
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 8:00 p.m. (CT)
Sunday: None
Batavia, Ohio
Saint Philomena Church
Stonelick-Williams Corner Road,
Batavia, OH 45103
Phone: (513) 732-2218
Fax: (513) 732-2368
Archdiocese of Cincinnati
Mass Schedule:
Sunday 8:00 a.m.
Holyday 7:00 p.m.
Mailing Address:

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PO Box 85
Owensville , 45160-0085
Mass Schedule:
Sunday: 8:00 a.m.
Holyday: 7:00 p.m.
East Cleveland, Ohio
13824 Euclid Avenue
East Cleveland, OH, 44112
(216) 541-3540
Mass Schedule:
Monday: 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:30 a.m.
Wednesday: 4:00 p.m.
Thursday: 7:30 a.m.
Friday: 4:00 p.m.
Saturday: 4:00 p.m., 5:30 p.m.
Sunday: 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 5:00 p.m.
Confessions:
3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Any time by appointment.

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Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
3908 Sixth Avenue
Beaver Falls, PA 15010
Phone: (724) 843-7375
Website
Diocese Of Pittsburgh
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 4:30 p.m.
Sunday: 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Monday:: 8:00 a.m.
Tuesday: 8:00 a.m.
Thursday: 6:30 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m.
Confessions:
Thursday: 5-6 p.m.
Saturday: noon-12:30 p.m.
St Philomena Elementary school
4001 6th Avenue
Beaver Falls, PA 15010-0150
Phone: (724) 846-2272

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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
41 E. Baltimore Avenue
Lansdowne, PA 19050
Phone: (610) 622-2420
Website
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Mass Schedule:
Vigil: 5:15 p.m. Saturday
Sunday: 7:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 12:15 p.m.
Monday - Friday 6:30 a.m., 8:00 a.m.
Saturday: 8:00 a.m.
(Summer Schedule: 8:00 a.m. Weekday Mass only from 20 June 2005 to 6 September 2005.)
Weekday Mass is celebrated in Saint John Vianney Chapel located in the Parish Center Building.
Holy Days of Obligation:
Vigil: 7:30 p.m.
Sunday: 6:30 & 8:00 a.m.; 12:00 noon
Holy Days Without Obligation:
If Holy Day falls on Monday 6:30 a.m., 8:00 a.m.
If Holy Day falls on Saturday 8:00 a.m., 12 Noon
Saint Philomena Novena
The novena to Saint Philomena is celebrated each Saturday following the 8am Mass.
Access Information Church: Accessible entrances, curb cuts, ramps and parking near accessible entrances
for churches with parking lots. Sufficiently wide and level approach or gradually sloping ramp to door; doorway
wider than 32 inches, with automatic door or one that is easily opened with minimum pressure or usher
assistance; parking spaces large enough to accommodate vans with access aisle for discharge on either side of
van; parking spaces designated with proper signage.

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Assistive Listening Device (ALD): Church is equipped with ALD for sound system. Ear phones or audio loops
that enhance the sound are available for people who are hard of hearing.
Saint Philomena Elementary School
13 North Highland Avene
Lansdowne, PA 19050-2220
Phone: (610) 259-6817
Fax: (610) 259-5656
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
324 Corys Lane
Portsmouth, RI 02871-0287
Website
Des
Moines, Washington
1790 South 222nd
Des Moines, WA 98198
Phone: (206) 878-8709
Fax: (206) 824-3480
Website
Archdiocese of Seattle
Mass Schedule:
Sunday: 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m.,12:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Rosary recited before 8:30 a.m. Mass on Sundays

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Monday: 8:00 a.m.
Tuesday: 8:00 a.m.
Wednesday: 6:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Thursday: 8:00 a.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m.
Rosary recited 40 minutes prior to each weekday Mass
Saturday: 9:00 a.m.
Holy Days: 8:00 a.m. and Evening Mass as announced
1815 South 220th
Des Moines, WA 98198
Website
Belmont, Wisconsin
338 Chestnut Street
P.O. Box 345
Belmont, WI 53510-0345
Phone: (608) 762-5446
Diocese of Madison
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday thru Friday: 8:30 a.m.
Confessions:
Saturday: 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Briamwood, Wisconsin
Saint Philomena
432 State Road
Birnamwood, WI 54414-0911
Phone: (715) 449-2104

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Fax: (715) 449-9828
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box K
Birnamwood, WI 54414-0911
Website
Diocese of Green Bay
Mass Schedule:
Saturday: 7:30 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m.
Briggsville, Wisconsin
Saint Philomena’s Shrine At:
St. Mary's Help of Christians
N565 County Road A
Briggsville, WI 53920
Phone: (608) 981-2282
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Blessed Joseph Damien de Veuster of Molokai
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A special guardian must have been watching over the little stone church
for the last century. Its frame ravaged by termites, storms and the
forces of time, Saint Philomena has continued to stand, for the most
part intact, despite warnings that the next hurricane force wind could
carry the unattached roof away.
The historic church, built in Kalawao in 1872, is the last structure on the peninsula which
bears witness to Father Damien’s life and work in this “isolation colony” for those who
suffered from Hansen’s disease. (The peninsula is now designated the Kaluapapa National
Historic park under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service.) It was around this building
that Father Damien centered his all-inclusive ministry on Molokai.
Father Damien, a missionary priest, born at Tremeloo, Belgium, 3 January 1840; died
at Molokai, Hawaii, 15 April 1889.

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His father, a small farmer, sent him to a college at Braine-le-Comte, to prepare for a commercial profession; but as
a result of a mission given by the Redemptorists in 1858, Joseph decided to become a religious. He entered
the novitiate of the Fathers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary at Louvain, and took in religion the name
of Damien. He was admitted to the religious profession, 7 Oct. 1860. Three years later, though still in minor
orders, he was sent to the mission of the Hawaiian Islands, where he arrived, 19 March, 1864. Ordained priest
at Honolulu 24 May of the same year, he was later given charge of various districts on the island of Hawaii,
and, animated with a burning zeal, his robust constitution allowed him to give full play to the impulses of his
heart. He was not only the missionary of the natives, but also constructed several chapels with his own hands,
both in Hawaii and in Molokai.
Saint Philomena was a joyful, spirited place, despite
the disease that surrounded it. Understanding the
Hawaiian love of elaborate ceremony and music,
Father Damien celebrated services there complete
with grand processions and song. Serving as a
member of the choir came to be viewed as a great
honor by the patients.
Blessed Joseph Damien de Veuster of Molokai Church.
The biggest event of the year was the Feast
of Corpus Christi. Preparations for the day took weeks and the feast arrived with great pomp. According to
the Historic Sites report on the chapel, :flowers were gathered and sown into wreaths, and on the feast day,
while Damien carried the Blessed Sacrament through the village, children strewed petals along the way and
other parishioners joined in hymns.”
Father Damien’s work addressed not only the spiritual lives
of the patients, but their very real and basic needs for
shelter, food and medical supplies as well. He championed
their cause to the Board of Health who had previously
expected the patients to produce their own food and shelter
and thus allowed conditions prior to Damien’s arrival to sink
to sub-human levels. In the short time from the settlement’s
organization to Damien’s arrival, Kalawao had become a violent, anarchic society in which the strong enslaved

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those too disabled by the disease to resist.
Statue of Saint Philomena in the church of

Blessed Joseph Damien de Veuster of
Molokai.
Damien began to turn things around almost immediately. He lived
closely among the patients - feeding them, building homes for them, dressing their sores, dispensing medicines
when he received it, and even impressing upon the more perverse members of the community the need for order
and discipline. His care was not restricted to the Roman Catholics of Kalawao: all the patients received his attentions.
Damien’s ministry, understandably, had quite an effect on his flock. As more converts were made, the pews of
the small wooden structure overflowed and by 1876, the “west wing” or “transept” was added to Saint Philomena
to accommodate the growing congregation. Damien is also said to have painted the interior and exterior in a
variety of bright colors to suit Hawaiian tastes.
These additions only sufficed for a decade. In 1888, just a year
before Damien’s death, plans were made for major renovations
to Saint Philomena. Although disfigured and weakened by
Hansen’s disease, the priest oversaw construction of a more
substantial stone structure, complete with bell tower, over and
around the original wooden chapel. The presence of a stone
A small wooden building was being used for Catholic church

mason among the patients and plenty of raw materials at hand
services when Father Damien arrived at Kalawao in 1873. He and
enabled the residents of the settlement to provide most of the
patient helpers enlarged the church twice. Brother Joseph Dutton
labor. Construction was almost complete at the time of Father completed the work after Damien's death in 1889.
Damien’s death in 1889. This historic church's breathtaking physical setting and nearby
graveyards illustrate both the tragedy and the peace of Kalawao.

Few changes were made to the church from that time until its
final Mass was held on Christmas Eve, 1932. It was largely abandoned from that day until 1982, with the exception
of sporadic community attempts to paint and maintain the structure.
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Dedicated Decades Magazine
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· Summer 2008
· Spring 2008
New Year's Greeting from our Director:
"We must learn to co-operate, to collaborate and to combine our efforts; our
life and our mission will then be much more effective and pleasing in God's
Eyes……
Solidarity, charity and fraternity are the marks of Christ's disciples. BE YE
ONE! This year promises to be one of great challenge, sacrifice and suffering.
We must be united always in prayer, in heart, in spirit and in this precious
work to bring all souls to the Immaculate Heart of Mary through our Daily
Decade in the Living Rosary.
May Saint Philomena, our Patroness and Protectress who art the Guardian
Angle of our Association be always at your side!"
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"The aim of the Living Rosary is to ask God, through the intercession of Our
Lady of the Rosary, the conservation of the Faith in Catholic countries, the
conversion of sinners, the strengthening of the just, and the exaltation of the
Holy Church.
The people who join together for this pious exercise, divide among
themselves the recitation of the prayers of the entire Rosary, and divide into
groups of 15, in honor of the 15 principal mysteries of our redemption. Their
intention is to form, by the union of their hearts, as so many living rosaries
which unceasingly recall to the Celestial Father the sign of salvation
manifested to St. Dominic by the Mother of Mercies.
After Our Lady of the Rosary, the Association recognizes and honors as its

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mediatrix before God, the illustrious Virgin and Martyr, St. Philomena, named
by the Sovereign Pontiff, protectress of the Living Rosary."
- Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot
Everything that happens occurs for a reason. It was no accident that God chose
the soul of the Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot to form the Universal Living
Rosary Association for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and in
honor of St. Philomena. Each of us is called to serve God and it is no accident
that you are being called to help further this sacred mission.
We know that all things work for good for those

who love God, who are called according to his
purpose.
– Romans 8:28
Pauline, a young and very pious French girl, dedicated herself to the heart and
love of Jesus and gave the Church one of the greatest works when she founded
the Society for the Propagation of the Faith missionary work and the
Association of the Living Rosary. Her immense desire to love and her thirst
to possess God inspired her to act for His Glory.
Jesus died for all men! Why weaken our hearts

with less noble desires?
– Pauline Jaricot
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The Living Rosary Association was Pauline’s inspired plan to save
the Church in France and encourage everyone to learn their faith
through Catholic books. The association began its devotion of
distributing fifteen decades of the Rosary to fifteen persons in
several parishes on Dec. 8, 1826. The association was formally
approved by Pope Gregory XVI and accorded canonical status on
Jan. 27, 1832.
On Dec. 8, 1986, Richard and Patricia Joann Melvin, married more
than 30 years, began a revival of Pauline Jaricot’s Living Rosary lay
apostolate in an effort to honor Our Blessed Mother and St.
Philomena. What originated with less than 30 people dedicated to
praying a daily decade of the rosary has grown to more than 11
million devoted Christians around the world, all praying their

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dedicated decades of the Rosary each day of every year.
Your Role in the Living Rosary Today >>>
Today Monday, January 05, 2009, 11,175,302 faithful servants

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are joined worldwide through the Living Rosary and united with
Mary in prayer one decade at a time to hasten the triumph of Her
Immaculate Heart and to bring about the Reign of Jesus Christ the
King.
Power of the Rosary
Pope Leo XIII said, “There is nothing more excellent than that numerous voices
pray without interruption from all parts of the world, simultaneously lifting up
supplications to the Blessed Virgin Mary as they meditate on the mysteries of the
Holy Rosary.”
Say the Rosary every day, to obtain peace for the

world.
– Our Lady of Fatima
The Living Rosary is a continuation of the Rosary given to St. Dominic by Our
Blessed Mother while he was combating the Albigensian heresy in the South of
France during the thirteenth century. Our Blessed Mother asked St. Dominic to
spread devotion to Christ by saying the Rosary and meditating on the life of
Christ, each and every day.

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– cf. Eph 3:17
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Don Francesco de Lucia

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The Story of Don Francesco de Lucia
19th Sept. 1772 – 9th April 1847
Don Francesco de Lucia was the first Rector of the Sanctuary of St. Philomena. He was born on the 19th
September 1772 in the town of Mugnano del Cardinale within the diocese of Nola. Throughout his childhood his
uncle, who was a priest, taught him the ways of the Catholic faith and initiated his life with a sound
Christian upbringing. His uncle remained close to him and gave him every assistance to enter the Institution of
the Congregation of the Holy Sacrament in Lucera, where he studied Theology and Philosophy. He was ordained
to his priesthood on the 19th September 1796. He became ill shortly after this and was moved to Naples which
was closer to his hometown. This is when he truly began his work and opened “The Institute of Literature
and Philosophy”. With the start of the Neapolitan Revolution in 1799, Don Francesco decided to move back to
his hometown in Mugnano del Cardinale where he dedicated him self to missionary work along with many
other priests of Naples and the south of Italy.
Through this apostolic life he became friends with Mons. Bartolomeo De Cesare who was to go on to
become instrumental in his life. This good friend asked Don Francesco to accompany him to Rome for his
Episcopal ordination on the 30th June 1805 which is when his life takes a turn, for through this journey to Rome he
is given permission to receive the Sacred Relics of St. Philomena.
The divine providence had arranged this journey in order that Don Francesco De Lucia would become the
Propagator of the devotion of St. Philomena. He did this work admirably and was witness to many great works of
God through the intercession of St. Philomena. After establishing and guiding this devotion for nineteen years,
in 1824 he began to document the wonders he had been privileged to witness. By 1836 he had written the first
ever book on St. Philomena giving it the name “History of the Relics of St. Philomena”. The first edition was
published in 1836 and was called the “Historic relation of the translation of the Sacred Body of St. Philomena
from Rome to Mugnano”. His work spread so fast in every city of Italy and was translated into many languages.
From 1836 until 1843, there followed another six revised and corrected versions.
In order to give devotion to Saint Philomena he initiated an association called “The Pia Association of the Virgins
of Saint Philomena” also called “The small nuns of St. Philomena”. Many of whom were very young girls,
housewives or peasant women. They all lived with their family but following a very religious life. They wore a
black dress, white veil and a small crucifix and would follow the vow of chastity with little daily routines. As
Don Francesco was the founder of this he established the regulations and policy. Many other Bishops and
Religious institutions throughout Italy and France went on to follow these rules for their own religious establishments.

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Don Francesco attained the respect and high esteem of many Bishops, Priests and important people through his
good work. Among whom was the King of Naples, Ferdinand II who visited the Sanctuary 25 times until
1843, accompanied by his first wife Maria Cristina of Savoy who died during childbirth and also with his second
wife Maria Sofia. He also achieved great admiration by his town people and most importantly that of all the
devotees. On Holy Friday in 1835, while Don Francesco was going to Nola to greet the Bishop, he fell from a
donkey, (which was a normal mode of transport at the time) and that was the start of a very long frailty. On the
14th April 1841 he had a second fall and in 1845 the third fall caused the breaking of artery, which made him
become infirm and in great pain. During these years of infirmity he struggled through the suffering with
great acceptance and dignity.
Don Francesco De Lucia died on the 9th April 1847 giving his holy soul to our Lord, after having dedicated 41 years
of his priesthood ministry and continuous service at the Sanctuary and spreading the devotion of St. Philomena.
The loss of the custodian of the Sacred Relics of St. Philomena became a deep mourning for all the community
of Mugnano and for the devotees of the Saint. The days of mourning leading to his funeral celebration, which
was held in the Sanctuary (funeral services are not normally held at the Sanctuary as it is not a Parish Church,)
were a clear manifestation of the great love that all had towards him. During these days it became important to
have guards because of the many visitors who were trying to obtain a piece of his clothes as a Relic.
The body of Don Francesco was placed in front of the Chapel of St. Philomena. It had been decided after
some disagreement that the bells of the Sanctuary would not be rung, nor would the veil covering the Sacred
Urn containing the Relics of St. Philomena be lifted, nor the candles lit as these would be done in union with
each other and happened at special occasions. However a miracle of Our Lord through the love of St.
Philomena happened, while the Don Francesco’s body was being lifted to start the funeral rites, the wheel of
the Churches bells without being touched began to ring, with great astonishment of the population and the
priests present. At this point the candles in front of the Altar of St. Philomena were lightened and the veil lifted.
Don Francesco was temporarily buried in the Chapel of the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception, near
the Sanctuary. On the 9th December 1848 he was moved to the Sanctuary, with funeral rites and by
the reconnaissance authority received by the Diocese of Nola, into the special monument, which is on the left side
of the entrance of the Sanctuary.
The Gift of St. Philomena and the First Signs of St Philomena
The Translation of the Sacred Relics of St Philomena from Rome to Mugnano del Cardinale
In 1805 Don Francesco De Lucia a young priest from Mugnano del Cardinale in the diocese of Nola, was in Rome
with his friend Mons. Bartolomea DeCesare, a priest from Saint Angelo a Segno, Naples who was to be
consecrated on 30th June 1805 as Bishop of Potenza. Don Francesco had a secret wish to bring back a Martyr
Saint to his oratory in Mugnano (it was customary at that time for priests to have their own private chapel in
their living quarters for daily mass). The new Bishop helped Don Francesco’s wish come true, by presenting him
to the custodian of the Sacred Relics Mons. Giacinto Pozzetti.

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Mons. Bartolomeo De Cesare, apart from being elected as the new Bishop of Potenza, had been appointed by
the King of Naples to take his personal message to Pope Pius VII, who had just returned to Rome after
having crowned the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte who had returned from a triumphal journey through France.
The Kings ambassador conveyed to the holy see of the great wish of Don Francesco De Lucia. At this point Pope
Pius VII, was so touched with this wish he agreed to give him as a gift the Relics of St. Philomena. However it
was not protocol to give such a precious gift of the Relics of a named Martyr to a simple priest. This right was
only given Bishops and so in order for him to obtain these Relics of St Philomena they were donated to the
newly elected Bishop on the 8th June 1805. Bishop De Casare went on to donated them to Don Francesco de
Lucia. The will of God was that this St Philomena was to be donated throughout the world by Him to help His
chosen people just as he was donated to Don Francesco. We should recognize this first sign from God for this is
why when St Philomena comes into our life the pull toward her is so strong, she is indeed a truly great gift from God.
On the 30th June, while in Rome the celebrations of the Apostle St Paul were held, Don Francesco De Lucia
was assisting the Episcopal ordination of his good friend Bartolomeo De Cesare. On the 1st July, the new
elected Bishop and Don Francesco organized the coach to leave Rome with the Relics of Saint Philomena. They
had previously discussed placing the Relics of St Philomena in a privileged position within the coach, however
time was short and for the safe keeping of the Relics due to the robberies, they where placed under the wooden
seat beneath the Bishop. As everyone took their seats and the coach began its journey, Bishop De
Cesare experienced extreme pain to the back of his legs, he cried out in pain. Again what felt like a lash
happened and by the third time Don Francesco and the Bishop realized that God wanted His daughter of light to
be placed in the front seat where it had been first discussed. The contained holding the precious Relics where
taken from beneath the seat and placed facing the two men. This was the second sign from God that we would go
on to realize characteristic of St Philomena when she gives us the three knocks. This signifies that St Philomena
is present is our life for those whom she feels needs to know that.
The journey from Rome to Naples took one day and they arrived there on the 2nd of July. The Relics where taken
to the house of a well respected Neapolitan librarian, Antonio Terres, a trusted friend of the Bishop. The
requested and authorization from the Bishop of Nola, Mons. Vincenzo Torrusio to open the containers with
the Relics. The new Bishop of Potenza opened and officially identified them as the Relics of St Philomena that
had come from Rome. The Sacred Relics of St Philomena were sealed several times in one large case containing
five packets, each packet was also sealed several times at all the openings. Immediately when the case the
opened a sweet fragrance spread throughout the whole house. Each of the five packets within where
specially wrapped and meticulously sealed. The first one had the vase with the blood and the second the scull of
the virgin martyr which was extremely fractured. The three remaining packets where the bones of St
Philomena together with a high volume of ashes which was the remains of her flesh which made up the main part
of each packet. There where many bones, the larger bones where intact but very fragile. The color of the
ashes clearly indicated that it was her flesh that had turned to ashes. Don Francesco states in his writings “ What
a great precious thing, for us to have the body, blood and flesh of this great Saint. This is indeed a blessing and

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very rare, for in most instances when a tomb is opened after so many years, one may only find some bones and
in most you will probably find merely ashes, for the many centuries of entombment would reduce the body to
this.” When the body of St Philomena was discovered originally in 1802 in the catacombs of St Pricilla, Rome it
had been stated, after examining all of the Relics and these basis only, that it was a young girl of about 13 years
of age. Don Francesco goes on to say “ After having opened the small separate packets, what was certain was
the small size of the scull in proportion to all other remaining bones, that they belonged to a young Martyr
Saint between 12-13 years of age or just older.”
They where then placed in the private chapel of Antonio Terres. The news of this Roman Martyr has spread and
the good people of the surrounding areas came to the house of Anotonio to pay their respects. As the crowds
began to increase and to avoid disorder the Relics where transferred to the Parish Church of St Angelo a Serno
and for the first time the Body of St Philomena was exposed for public veneration, she remained there for three
days. The three day in the Church and the three remaining similar packets holding the Relics are further signs of
how significant the number three is when we receive a sign or grace through the intercession of St Philomena .
Also note here the name of this Church where she was first revealed, it is the church of an angel and many
have reported the strong prescience of the angels when devoted to St Philomena.
The three days had passed and it was time to prepare the Relics to be placed in the hollow Paper Mache statue.
It was a privileged job to be given to prepare this Martyr for the world and we should keep in mind at this time it
was for the private Chapel of Don Francesco who goes on to say “We then began the dressing which Mrs.
Terres greatly desired to do in return for asking to receive the grace of being cured of a severe illness in her
legs which she had suffered from for the past 12 years. Which we can say was recompensed for she was
perfectly cured the day before the Sacred Body left her home.” This was the first miracle through the intercession
of St Philomena ever received. All of the bones where put into the paper mace statue in the presence of
Don Francesco. St Philomena was ready to be taken to what was to become her home town. The Statue was
dressed in fine clothes and this became the first Statue and remains the principle Statue. This was to become the
St Philomena we all know and love to this day. From this first miracle St Philomena teaches us to be patient
and always to give before we expect to receive, but doing all in love and faith.
On the evening of the 9th August the Sacred Relics were to be transferred to Mugnano del Cardinale. As
the procession began on foot the Sacred Body of St Philomena was carried and left Naples, but as night
descended, Don Francesco realized he had forgotten the many lanterns needed for the journey, just as he thought
it would take up too much time to return for them the most beautiful moon shone down and guided them through
out the night. As the procession entered the town of Cimitile and was nearing its end the body of St
Philomena became so heavy it could not be carried. Cimitile comes from the word in Italian meaning cemetery
and this town had been the place where early Christians had been Martyred, it has a Basilica and Catacombs of
the early Christians and is known as “The Sacred Land of the Martyrs”. As St Philomena, stayed to join with her
fellow Martyrs, Don Francesco went to Mugnano to get some help to carry St Philomena through Cimitile. He
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sign we can take form our precious Saint was that when we pray to her she guides us to her heavenly friends,
the many Saints and Martyrs who keep her company in paradise, the three who have been widely noted are
St Michael the Archangel, St John Vianney and St Pio of Piedesimo.
This journey from Naples to Mugnano was to be solemn and quiet but as it happened there had been earth
quakes through the month of July in the area and so many in the path of the procession had thought it better
to sleep outside. As the procession passed through the towns the townspeople paid their respects and St
Philomena became widely known. God presented his daughter to the world and laid in her path the many
chosen ones who where to greet her and spread the news of her arrival. He made certain she was to be known to
the world.
On the morning of the 10th August they arrived in Mugnano, to the cheers of the expectant crowds from
Mugnano and all the surrounding towns. One elderly man who suffered from severe gout and could hardly put
one foot in front of the other was so eager to see this Martyr and pay his respects that through sheer will power
he got to the street as St Philomena entered the town and at that moment he was totally cured of his illness
and walked like a teenager along side the procession, this was the first of many miracles in the town of
Mugnano. However, as the procession entered the town a strong wind came hurly around and as the there had
been earth quakes in the area in July the crowd began to disperse. Don Francesco shouted out “Where are
you going?” “Do you not know that this is the work of Satan, he is trying to stop this procession, come back and
do not be afraid” When he had finished saying this the wind immediately stopped. Not one torch was put out
during this gale however all of the trees in the area had been blown down. The procession continued up the hill
and entered the Church of Our Lady of Grace. We can clearly see from this that the evil one will do everything he
can to stop our connection with St Philomena but it teaches us to go forth in complete faith and trust for then
we cannot be touched. We see again from this first Miracle of the town that we must go forth in love and our
hope and prayers will be answered.
As the amount of devotees was growing rapidly daily, the Bishop of Nola exhorted Don Francesco De Lucia
to renounce to the idea of keeping the Sacred Relics in his oratory. Therefore for this reason a special Chapel
was built in the Church of Our Lady of Grace where the Sacred Relics were then translated on the 29th
September 1805. To this day the they remain there however during the past 200 years the Chapel its self
has continually been adorned and made more precious. It became apparent from the second that St
Philomena entered Naples how popular she had become in such a short time and how it came to pass that
people should come to know her, even in the night as she passed through the towns on her journey to Mugnano.
The will of God was done and St Philomena became and is to this day a truly special and Powerful Wonder Worker.

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The Tomb of Don Francesco de Lucia in Sanctuary of St. Philomena, Mugnano del Cardinale, Av., Italy.
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· A Week of Daily Rosary
· Books translated into the national language of Pakistan
o Saint Philomena
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o Universal Living Rosary Association Newsletter - July to September 2008
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· Father Naidenoff, Pauline Jaricot Biographer in charge of her cause. Letter and His
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· Pious Exercises of the Living Rosary
· Rosa Mystica by Kenelm Digby Best (33.1mb)
· Sanctity Through the Rosary by Edouard Hugon, O.P. (9.94mb)
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· Universal Living Rosary India Newsletter, November - December 2008

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Foundress
The Match That Lit the Fire.

An Inferno Which Would Cover the Face of the Earth!
It was Pauline Marie Jaricot pronounced (Jeri-coe) who lit the match. This true daughter of the Church is worthy
of new legitimate praise. Her vision has been shown to be truly prophetic. The source of this flame was her
profound interior life, completely open to the love of God, characterized by a child-like spirit. It was this
almost mystical generosity which allowed her to find and to enact, without delay, concrete and courageous actions.
It is true that, Pauline, like so many others within the Church who have responded whole-heartedly to an
exceptional vocation, did not hesitate to shock and even provoke her fellow Christians, particularly those
who surrounded her. Those fellow Christians who did not agree with Pauline, did not hesitate to voice
their disapproval in ways often, harsh, unjust and even violent. The genius and holiness of Pauline matured
and crystallized into a reality of extreme simplicity- the Living Rosary.

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Listen to the Story. Click here to listen to a beautiful audio presentation of the
Story of Venerable Pauline Jaricot (courtesy of WaySideAudio.com)
Petition for the Beatification of Venerable Pauline Jaricot
St. Philomena has guided this association since its inception in 1826 and continues to bless the heroic efforts
of its faithful soldiers. And, just as Pauline Jaricot was solely responsible for bringing about St.
Philomena’s elevation to the Holy Altar, it is believed that St. Philomena will be instrumental in bringing
the cause of the beloved foundress of the Living Rosary Association to the Holy Altar.
Prayerfully consider adding your name to the universal petition for the timely beatification of our foundress.
Pauline’s Offering
My hope is in Jesus Christ!
My only Treasure is the Cross!
I seek nothing but the Will of God,
And aspire for nothing
Save its perfect accomplishment!
I place my hope in Thy mercy,
Which surpasses all Thy works!
Mary, O My Mother,
I Am Thine!
The universal propagation of the Faith in all its purity

– Was the lifetime prayer of this holy foundress.

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Let us make this our prayer. In this modern age of freedom and godlessness, with the 'spirit' of the world
sowing corruption within family and Church, let us pray all the more fervently for the preservation of the
One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

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The universal success of the work of Pauline is to be found in the furnace of charity within her great heart.
No matter how great the persecution or injustice she suffered, never was she heard to complain. Pauline
was altogether consumed by a great love of God. Before her death she had a very close friend gather up all
the letters she had received throughout the years from priests, prelates and hierarchy which contained
any compliment or flattery and commanded that they be burned. The letters that were left for others to
see would be the ones which had criticism and condemnation. The following prayer was found on her
person after her death. It dates from 1856.
"My hope is in Jesus, my only treasure is the Cross...I will bless the Lord at all times and His praise shall
be always in my mouth. I adore the will of my God. What does it matter to me' O beloved and loveable will
of God, if you take from me all earthly goods, reputation, honor, health, and life; what does it matter that
you make me descend into the depth of humiliations. What does it matter - if, I find the hidden fire of
Thy heavenly love? How happy I should be if I could die for Thee and for my fellow creatures. Jesus, Priest
and Victim, I unite the sacrifice of my life and the cross I carry to Thy blood shed for me. I shelter myself in
Thy wounds and I expect all strength from Thee. My heart is ready, O Lord, my heart is ready. I only wish to
do all for Thy greater glory. I rely upon Thy strength when the supreme moment comes and not upon my own.
I have put my hopes in Thy mercy. I recommend to Thee all to whom I may die indebted, and I beg Thee,
that having given my life and my blood for them, my friends will pay my debts after my death".
Mary, O my Mother, I am Thine!
In Her Beginnings...
What does it matter except that Christ be made known!

– Pauline Jaricot
The father of Pauline, Antoine, was the thirteenth child of fourteen. He was firm, courageous, honest and
pious. It was his custom to attend daily Mass at 4 a.m. before beginning his day's work. He was apprenticed
in the folding and selling of silk. After marriage to Jean, harmony reigned in their home. This couple was
young, strong, honest and pious. Eight children were born to them. Pauline was the youngest, being born on
July 21, 1799. The Jaricot's were very prosperous in their silk business and as a result learned to distrust
money and its deadly effects on the soul.
At the time of Pauline's birth the clergy had taken a vow of obedience to the State, so that the Jaricot's
had Pauline baptized at home by a refractory priest. Pauline's brother, Phileas, was then two years old.
These two were inseparable As they grew, they dreamed of being great missionaries.
Pauline had a temper and myopia, a condition of near sightedness. She would often run into things. She had
a lovely voice and her father called her, "my nightingale," to which her mother added. "of Paradise." She had
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She says, "I dressed myself in all my finery, believing myself worthy of universal admiration and preening
myself with the conceit of a peacock. Self-love made itself forcefully into my heart." At this time in her life
she climbed on a high foot-stool and had a severe fall, with a hard knock on the head which affected her
nervous system. The doctor feared for her life. Overwhelmed with grief, Pauline's mother offered her own life
for that of her daughter. God answered her prayers. She died but Pauline was completely cured.
Entering her teens, she embarked in the 'dashing' social life of the silk world.
Her heart and soul were torn apart. "My life is dull and my youth is so sad". At seventeen years of age
she attended a sermon by the Abbey Wurtz. The subject was of all things, vanity! She was deeply impressed
and made her confession to the Abbey. She then went home and burned her romantic novels and songs,
set aside her jewels and decided never again to look into a mirror or wear beautiful dresses. "I suffered
terribly during my first few months of conversion. I would never have been able to cure myself of vanity if I
had not guarded myself carefully.
Her soul was resolved to serve the Lord. Pauline turned the page of her life by making a general confession.
A short while after, she visited a Marian Shrine and made a vow to remain chaste in body and soul
though clearly understanding that she did not have a religious vocation. Two passions dominated her
and remained with her throughout all her life; anger and pride. The first caused her to feel fury. "In order
to keep silence, I had to put in my mouth whatever was close at hand. My passions weakened to the degree
I combated them."
At a large family gathering, she begged forgiveness for the worldly inclinations she had so often shown.
Many tears were shed on that day when young Pauline closed the book on her past. She felt liberated
and renewed. She began to take upon herself works of charity. She visited the poor and dressed like one
of them. They were never made to feel indebted, but she gave them, rather, the feeling that it was her honor
to be with them. She helped the desolate and waywardly girls of her own age, obtaining for them work in
her brother's silk factory while encouraging piety and good works among them. Pauline, remembering
the spiritual decay caused by the Revolution and above all the permanent offense given to God, gave her
group the explicit name of women of reparation or 'Reparatrices.' They made reparation which was to
penetrate devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and the cult of the Sacred Heart in France.
She abandoned herself to the Heart and love of Jesus and gave the Church one of the
greatest imaginable works.
Christ spoke to her innermost soul and put her, without her realizing it, on the mystical path which is told in
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the greatest imaginable works. In her own words, she modestly said, "I lit the match that lit the fire." It was
an inferno that was to cover the entire surface of the earth! The founding of the Propagation of the Faith was
no accident, but rather an entire chain in her life.
It was through her correspondence with her brother Phileas that the Society was born. She encouraged
her brother to the priesthood. And together they had great concern for the foreign missions. Phileas asked
for her help with the Society of Rue de Bac, a propagation of the Faith which had formed in Rome in 1692.
The work was two fold, prayer and alms to spread the Faith in the countries of Asia. On May 3, 1822,
Pauline Marie Jaricot founded the Association in Lyon. The Association for the Propagation of the Faith had as
its sole aim the raising of funds for the Asian missions.
In the Spring of 1818, with her heart set afire Pauline began work among the 200 'repartees' at the factory.
The donation suggested was a "sou" which at that time was l/2Oth of a Franc (penny). Pauline could have
put out a collection box, but she preferred the idea of a 'collector.' Pauline always wanted to personalize
an action. She went from person to person. This is the major characteristic of her life, as well as the
profound explanation of the extraordinary success of the works that she began.
Pauline always wanted to personalize an action. She went from person to person.
She prayed to God for a plan and the idea of groups of 10's 100's and 1000's came to her. Each group
leader was responsible to the leader of the group above. The plan succeeded beyond her wildest hopes. The
first month she did everything herself. rosary were alarmed. Pauline, alone, bore the questions, reluctance
and oppositions. The Vicar, Abbey Quelque, launched a campaign against her. In a sermon, he accused her
of beginning a 'non-authorized work' in Lyon. The same thing happened in other parishes. A few supported
her, but quietly. She begged their pardon and said that she would disband the organization without delay.
Her instructions were not to disband, but not to expand! The pastor of St. Polycarp took up her defense. She
was then 19 years of age. Phileas encouraged her to continue. His words to her in a letter were
prophetic, "Continue to propagate this work of charity. It is, possibly, the mustard seed that will produce
an enormous tree, whose benevolent branches will overshadow the entire surface of the earth."
It is, possibly, the mustard seed that will produce an enormous tree, whose benevolent
branches will overshadow the entire surface of the earth.
A French Bishop from the U.S. was sent as an embassy to Lyon for the purpose of collecting money for a
diocese in New Orleans. American Missions needed help. He suggested that a charity be designed to
encompass both worlds: Asia and America. He perceived Pauline's genius and used it. When the plan was
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thief. He embezzled large sums of money for his personal use. He became a member of the Association of
Lyon, won the others over by the weight of his title, his eloquence and his ardor. Everyone applauded him
and asked him to found such an association.
Someone presented him with the system which was already set up. Nothing was changed. The leaders
remained the same, the same decimal system was used and the members themselves were the same.
THE INVISIBLE FOUNDRESS WAS THERE.
May 1822 was a happy time. There was no vision of the problems that would arise 25 years later. These
men were drowned with the eloquence of Abbey Inglese and his "spontaneous explosion of common
thought." The Secretary recorded this statement, "We have done nothing but to develop and regulate an
idea that WAS NOT originally ours." Pauline gave to this group of 12 the ability to continue and develop
her association; by plan of action that was adopted, by leaders who met in council and by the troops, which
it inherited.
Pauline was, at the time, a far distance from Lyon, sick. She learned what had happened and reflected on it.
She was delighted with the fact that God had found other instruments to make the Propagation of the
Faith work, but she did not wish for her small, efficient collecting groups to be absorbed into this
new organization, which was still so uncertain. After having it explained to her, she understood the
Association consisted of applying the plan that she conceived, to a 'charitable work destined to bring the Light
of the Faith to the two worlds.' This was her hoped for goal. Acting with realism she suggested that
the collections be divided; one part for the American Missions and the other for the Asian Missions. This
was acceptable to all and they were delighted with her wisdom.
At 22 years of age, Pauline stayed in the shadows and contented herself with managing her group of 100. It
was at this time that she retired and wrote, a treatise entitled: Infinite Love of the Holy Eucharist This
was published under an anonymous name. Abbey Wurtz thought it so excellent; he felt she had a vocation to
the contemplative life. Pauline suffered intensely, but obeyed her confessor with the entirety of her whole
being. Time passed. The Propagation of the Faith expanded without Pauline who disappeared into obscurity.
It continued without deviation from the great plan; the great contribution of Pauline Jaricot!
The Living Rosary, Begun
Such a woman is Pauline, who is held sacred in the Church on more than one account. Pauline's genius
matured through even greater reflections. These were to be crystallized into a reality of extreme simplicity.
The Living Rosary. It is to her we owe the wonderful thought of distributing amongst fifteen persons, the
fifteen decades of the Rosary. In this manner she found a marvelous way to propagate devotion to the Mother
of God and to unceasingly invoke her aid. Many Pontifical letters recommended and enriched with
numerous indulgences, this new form of prayer which so rapidly spread through public acclamation.

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The Rosary is not a devotion to the Blessed Virgin, it is THE devotion to Mary!
As closely as we can ascertain, Pauline very likely began this devotion within several parishes on December
8th, 1826. The beautiful devotion of the Rosary had long been left to those who called themselves 'devoted'
and to the aged and sick who could do nothing else. The two-fold purpose for the creation of this Association
was to save France and encourage souls to learn their faith by distributing good Catholic books. Pauline knew
the enormous power of the Rosary against the forces of evil. Some objected that the repetition of the
Rosary was childish and the other forms of prayer would have greater merit. To which Pauline replied,
"Suppose you had been on earth when the Holy Family were living and you knew they were partial to a
certain kind of flower. Wouldn't you try to get it for Them, even though you yourself preferred another!" Let
us learn to appreciate the value of the Rosary which the Blessed Virgin recommends to us so strongly.
Pauline knew the enormous power of the Rosary against the forces of evil.
Pauline had the ingenious idea of making each group of 15 to consist of "the good, the mediocre and
those individuals who had only good will -15 coals: one being well lighted, 3 or 4 partially so and the others
not at all. Bring them all together and you have a furnace!" Father Ramiere to whom we owe the great work
of the 'Apostleship of Prayer' wrote in 1862, "This admirable association makes it perfectly suited to become
an instrument of zeal. The soul chosen by God to found the Propagation of the Faith, Miss Pauline Jaricot,
is welcomed heartily by the Apostleship of Prayer." Each member volunteered to donate a sum of five francs
a year, and to bring five other rosary into the Living Rosary. Most all of the bishops, either by a note or
long letter, had recommended The Living Rosary as an essential association for their diocese. After the death
of Pauline the members numbered in excess of 2,250,000 in France alone. Pauline herself said, "We will
be united in prayer with all rosaries of the universe, " -- a universal Living Rosary!
After the death of Pauline the members numbered in excess of 2,250,000 in France alone.
Pauline animated this immense association with newsletters in which she knew how to suggest her ideas in
an admirable fashion: "Lift up your hearts! Let us not concern ourselves with small personal interests; let us
not waste our tears on things of small import; let us embrace the universe in the vows that we have
formed. Jesus died for all men! Why weaken our hearts with less noble desires?" Pauline, faithful to her
youth, brought the members into full missionary work.
Initially the gentlemen of the Central Council of The Propagation of the Faith attempted to suppress The
Living Rosary for fear that it's success would be harmful to their collections. After speaking with Pauline
on several occasions, they gave it their wholehearted support. Pauline loved to write. She wrote quite a lot
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self. She inflamed the 2 million members of the Association with her profound, ardent and practical
newsletters, which caused a chaplain to write, "They are for our meetings what the Epistles of Saint Paul were
to the first Christians."
In 1835 , before and then after her miraculous cure of a grave heart condition at the shrine of St.
Philomena, Pauline was a glorious celebrity. She moved to a new location at Lorette from which she directed
the immense Living Rosary and handled her personal fortune. This management can be seen as a
stunning testimony of her knowledge, her practical spirit and the sureness of her judgment. The fact of
her eventual financial misfortune can be seen as to have come from a higher source. In her darkest
hours Cardinal Vallecourt wrote, "The present position of this true daughter of the Church is a problem
which cannot be resolved. In all aspects, there is something so extraordinary, that one cannot help but believe
it to be the great trial of predestination."
At the height of her happiness, Jean Marie Vianny sent to Pauline a young woman who was to remain at her
side to her death. This gesture proved that the Curé of Ars knew perfectly well the spiritual personality of
Pauline Jaricot. He told Maria, "I will give you a mother who will know how to make you advance in the love
of Jesus Christ." And to Pauline this note, "I am sending you a soul, which the Good Lord has surely made
for Himself and for you. The Holy Virgin has preserved her up to now from all evil; therefore, guard her well
in your turn and teach her to love even more Jesus and Mary."
A friend of the Jaricot family, Father Magallon, visited Pauline and to show his appreciation for the generosity
he had received at the family's hands, he gave her a most unusual gift. In fact, it was beyond price, being
a major relic of Philomena and the only one of it's kind in France.
"Let us pray for Philomena's canonization," Pauline suggested. "If we do, I am sure she will bless our work
in many ways."
Pauline's "Miracle at Mugnano"
Pauline Jaricot suffered from advanced heart disease which increased with time until her closest
friends recognized that death was imminent. In March of 1835, this illness had seriously affected her heart,
and in proportion as it increased, the palpitations became so violent that they could be heard at a distance
and caused her unmistakable agony. At this time Pauline decided to travel to Rome to seek an audience with
the Pope and to get the Holy Father's blessing (the ambition of her life) then on to Mugnano, where the relics
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The Shrine in Mugnano where Pauline's Great Miracle took Place.
A journey to Rome meant traveling by coach over the Alps, through wild and abandoned stretches of country,
a long dangerous journey even for those in a normal state of health. But Pauline set out.
Her arrival in Rome was reported to the Holy Father, Pope Gregory XVI, who, being informed of her
state, resolved to go in person to this young woman who had done so much for Holy Church. This was truly
an extraordinary honor, and likewise an unspeakable consolation to Pauline. The Holy Father was most kind
and gracious. He thanked her repeatedly for her work in behalf of the Catholic Church, and blessed her over
and over. He asked her to pray for him when she got to heaven, and Pauline promised. Then she asked:
"Holy Father, if I come back well from my visit to Mugnano, and go on foot to the Vatican, will your
holiness deign to proceed without delay with the final inquiry into the Cause of Saint Philomena?"
"Yes, yes, my daughter," replied the Pope, "for that would be a miracle of the first class." Turning then to
the superior of the Sacred Heart nuns, the Holy Father continued in Italian: "How ill our daughter is! She
seems to me as if she had come forth from the grave. We shall never see her again. She will never

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return." Pauline understood, but only smiled confidently. The Pope blessed her anew before taking his
departure, and turning to Cardinal Lambruschini, who had accompanied him, bade him pray for her and
grant her all the indulgences possible.
By now it was August and exceedingly hot. The party set out for Mugnano, traveling by night to avoid the
great heat of the day. They arrived at Mugnano on the eve of the feast of Saint Philomena. Vast crowds
had assembled to celebrate the feast. When they learned who Pauline was and what was her purpose in
coming, they were greatly excited.
The next morning, the feast of Saint Philomena, Pauline received Holy Communion near the shrine of the
saint's relics. She suffered frightful pains all through her body, and her heart beat so violently that she
fainted. The crowds thought that death had taken her, and so loud was their outcry that those who were
with Pauline attempted to take up the special chair on which she was lying and carry it out of the church.
But she recovered consciousness enough to make a sign to leave her near the relics. Suddenly a flood of
hot tears burst from her eyes, color came back to her cheeks, a healthy glow spread over her benumbed
limbs. Her soul was filled with celestial joy, and she thought she was about to leave this earth for heaven. But
it was not death. Saint Philomena had cured her! She was still to live many years to toil for God and His Church.

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The Very Chair in which Pauline Sat which is still at the shrine today.
Pauline, when certain of her cure, remained silent for a short while lest the enthusiasm of the crowd be
too vociferous. But the Superior of the convent, surmising the truth, ordered all the bells to peal
in announcement of the miracle. The rosary were frantic with joy, and shouted over and over; "Long live
Saint Philomena! Long live our dear saint! Long live the good French lady!"
Pauline lingered for some days at the shrine in thanksgiving and when at length she departed, she took with
her a large relic of Saint Philomena, encased in a life-sized statue of the saint. This was clothed in royal
robes and given the place of honor in the carriage. As Pauline made her way back to Rome, large
crowds gathered at the various stopping places and shouted: "A miracle! A miracle!"
Pauline had not informed the Holy Father of her cure, the more to enjoy his surprise when she should
present herself before him. All in the Vatican who had heard of her were astounded on learning of her cure.
The Pope, above all, was struck with amazement on seeing her before him in perfect health. His Holiness
would not have believed the reality, had he not seen her with his own eyes. At her request he granted
the privilege of building a chapel in honor of Saint Philomena.
In order to investigate the miracle thoroughly, the Pope commanded Pauline to remain in Rome for one full
year. During this time Pauline obtained from the Holy Father many privileges for the Living Rosary. At the end
of the year, Pauline returned with his blessing to Fourvieres, France.
From Triumph to Tragedy to Heavenly Triumph
The Association of The Living Rosary was prospering most remarkably and in the summer of 1838 Pauline
was able to inform Pope Gregory XVI that more than a million members were now enrolled, each offering
one decade of the Rosary every day and contributing from fifteen cents to one dollar in yearly dues. There
was an average of 1000 religious items leaving Lorette EVERY DAY.
Throughout her life she had given endless large sums of money to every charity. People need only to come
to Mademoiselle Jaricot and she gave financial help as well as spiritual encouragement and wise counsel.
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People need only to come to Mademoiselle Jaricot and she gave financial help as well as
spiritual encouragement and wise counsel.
Pauline's dream was to help the working class; to establish a community of workers, a model Christian
town; where men and women could be paid a living wage, the children would be educated, the sick and the
aged cared for. Naturally it would take a great deal of money to finance so great a project. Pauline was careful
to seek council concerning this project, not wishing it to be a vain or unholy idea. After explaining it to
Abbey Vianney , he remarked, "Child, it's wonderful! Just wonderful! Don't allow anything to keep you from
it's accomplishment. Don't worry about money. Remember what we have been able to do at Ars because
we trusted in the Heavenly Father." For more than two years Pauline prayed and sought advice on
the undertaking. Presently, she had an idea for financing. She would institute a 'Bank of Heaven', an
association of 15 wealthy rosary who would donate $20,000.00 to form the initial capital fund of
$350,000.00. This capital was given to a man who was to make the transaction for Pauline. Instead, he stole
the money and used it for his own personal needs. Pauline's lawyers said, "You are an innocent victim of
fraud." Pauline was reduced to begging in order to raise funds to repay those generous donors who invested
in the "Bank of Heaven".
She was advised to ask 'pennies' from the Propagation which she had founded, to help absorb the burden of
her debts. This she did, only after exhausting every other means of raising the money. She even went
begging. The Association obstinately refused to give her recognition as the foundress and thus
relieved themselves of any moral obligation to assist her. Pope Pius IX sent them a written note saying that
as the foundress of this good work, they should help her. Pauline under obedience, wrote, "--There will never
be another foundress of this good work, but she whom the Good Lord deigned to use, without regard for
her unworthiness. Yes, good Sirs, I am not merely an associate, but the true foundress of this work. I
truly conceived its plan," wrote Pauline. Recognition and financial assistance denied!
"An infamous betrayal was to rob her of her fortune. Besides the bitter pain off seeing a work perish that
she dearly loved, and all the anguish produced by destruction, this disaster brought upon her head touching
and cruel difficulties which resulted by her being assailed by creditors, tribunals, journeys on foot,
rebuffs, blame, calumny, and even scorn. In a word, all that is capable of wearing down even the. most
valiant of hearts. God permitted this, undoubtedly, so that she who had lived for Him and for the salvation of
her brothers, would in her last days, follow Jesus Christ, who died for those who condemned Him. And that
by her faith, her confidence, her spiritual vigor, her gentleness, her serene acceptance of all these crosses,
she would show herself to be His true Disciple."
Rome, June 13, 1888
Pope Leo XIII
And this is where the story ends. Destitute and alone, Pauline was refused help from The Propagation of
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health and aged, Pauline walked miles and miles, but there were only refusals. Madalene Sofie Barat, a
close friend of Pauline, comforted Marie at this time saying, "In all my seventy years. I have never met
anyone to equal your Mother Pauline. Such clarity and resignation! Child I do think we have a real saint
living with us."
In her sorrow, Pauline again went to visit the saintly Abbey Vianney . His words to her were full of
wisdom. "Through the hands of the Blessed Virgin, the Good God frequently grants one of the greatest gifts
in heaven's treasury- an understanding of the WAY OF THE CROSS; a love of trials and sufferings. My sister,
to try to get from under the cross is to be crushed by it's weight, but to suffer it lovingly is to suffer no longer."
Father De Montfort's book, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was a precious manuscript of which
rosary were becoming aware. Pauline was becoming more and more absorbed spiritually in True
Devotion. "Mary, my Mother, I am all yours," she was often heard to whisper when she was not aware that
she was being overheard. The thought of dying in debt was always her greatest cross. Death was preferable
to this.
In this state of poverty and apparent failure, Pauline breathed forth her last words in this vale of tears, "Mary,
O my Mother, I AM thine." The women at her bedside drew near and their eyes widened in astonishment. In
the light of the single oil lamp burning in the sick room, Pauline's face was radiant! "Why, she is beautiful!"
they exclaimed! "And how young she looks!" Maria Dubuois smiled, "The saints are always beautiful and young!"
Such a woman is Pauline! As we, the children of her Living Rosary, enkindle the fire of this great apostleship
of prayer, of which she is the mother and foundress, let us not allow the world to forget to whom they owe
an eternal debt. Do not allow history to repeat itself. We have done nothing but to revive The Living
Rosary Association of Venerable Pauline Jaricot and enkindle its fire over the face of the entire earth, She, it
was, who's coal was the source of our inferno!
Our Hope, Her Cause...
The members of the Universal Living Rosary Association humbly ask your help in petitioning the Holy See for
the beatification of Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot. We simply ask that you prayerfully consider adding
your name to the universal petition for the timely beatification of our foundress. Please click here to
download the form that can be printed from your computer, signed and mailed to the address listed. We
very much appreciate your prayerful consideration of this effort. For more information about the Living
Rosary, please visit the Universal Living Rosary Association web site.
Petition for the Beatification of Venerable Pauline Jaricot

"An infamous betrayal was to rob her of her fortune. Besides the bitter pain of seeing a work perish that
she dearly loved, and all the anguish produced by destitution, this disaster brought upon her head touching
and cruel difficulties which resulted by her being assailed by creditors, tribunals, journeys on foot,
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of hearts. God permitted this, undoubtedly, so that she who had lived for Him and for the salvation of
her brothers, would, in her last days, follow Jesus Christ, who died for those who condemned Him. And that
by her faith, her confidence, her spiritual vigor, her gentleness, her serene acceptance of all these crosses,
she would show herself to be His true Disciple. These writings of her life will show forth her beautiful soul
and noble heart and be a spectacle of great virtue. This is what We desire, what We ask God for."
Rome, June 13,1888
Pope Leo Xlll
We, the undersigned, do hereby request and petition the Holy See, without delay, to recognize the beatification
of Venerable Pauline Jaricot -- Great Daughter of the Church, foundress of the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith and the Association of the Living Rosary.
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MAIL TO:
Secretariat de Pauline Jaricot
12, rue Sala
Lyon, Cedex 02
FRANCE 69002
Prayer for Imploring from Our Lord the Beatification of Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot
"Heart of Jesus, Who Thyself is the model of all virtue and perfection, deign to hear our supplication and to
glorify Thyself in giving glory to Thy servant Pauline-Marie Jaricot. She is the Mother of missionaries and the
Living Rosary and spent herself completely in the spreading of the Catholic Faith in all the world. May we
obtain through the intercession of Pauline-Marie Jaricot the virtue of humility. We think so little of Thee because
we are full of self. Obtain for us the grace to know our nothingness and to rejoice in our dependence upon
Thee. Pauline was an example and apostle of humility. Guide us by her example and strengthen us through
her intercession to conform our hearts like unto Thy humble and crucified Heart.
Renew, O Lord, in these days when pride and forgetfulness of Thee are so widespread, the wonders which Thou
didst perform through Thy humble servant, Ven. Pauline-Marie Jaricot, during her lifetime. We pray that soon it
will please Thee to perform through her intercession the miracles needed for her Beatification and Canonization.
In return for all that she has done to extend Thy Kingdom upon earth, may the world know Venerable Pauline and
the surpassing value of her virtue of humility.
IN THE NAME OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY,
IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OUR BLESSED LORD,
IN THE NAME OF OUR LADY QUEEN OF THE LIVING ROSARY,
IN THE NAME OF ST. PHILOMENA, BELOVED DAUGHTER OF JESUS AND MARY

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FOR THE GREATER HONOR AND GLORY OF GOD
AND FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS
(Invocation to be said when applying the relic or picture to the sick or when held in the hand of those who are
in need)
OUR FATHER HAIL MARY GLORY BE
Listen to the Story
Part I
This WaysideAudio file, about Pauline Marie Jaricot was born in Lyon on July 22nd 1799 to a profoundly religious family of
silk merchants. Her entire life was given completely to God and her Holy Mother, the church. From her conversion at the age of
16, she devoted herself to a life of prayer and as a contemplative wrote many great works including The infinite Love of the
Divine Eucharist.
Part II
Had Pauline not been withdrawn from the activity of the world she would never have fully understood the
importance and necessity of prayer. However, having given up the world, she dedicated herself to works of
charity. She found that to serve the poor and afflicted was to serve Christ himself, thus she rushed to help
the unfortunate. Sharing her time between helping others and her life of prayer, she soon realized that to truly
help others, she must bring them to God.
Part III
The French Revolution had wrought havoc and destruction to the missionary effort. The entire attitude of the
church towards the mission was undermined. There were no viable initiatives or collections to help the
missions. Pauline prayed much on this and had a sudden inspiration, thus The Association of the Propagation of
the Faith was born from God, for her to spread across the world.
Part IV
Pauline’s apostolic soul longed to bring the knowledge and love of Christ to the whole world. Never did she cease
to sing the glory of God and give him thanks. She says Receive us in thy embrace as we are, and give us all that
thou hath, so that disappearing in thee, an ocean of love and perfections, nothing will remain of us any longer
but thyself wherein we are hidden.
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How to Pray the Rosary

1) Holding the crucifix; make the sign of the cross and recite the Apostles Creed:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
the Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord
Who was conceived of the Holy Ghost,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day He arose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.
Amen.
2) Say an Our Father while holding the next bead and a Hail Mary while holding each of
the next three beads in turn.
Our Father:
Our Father, Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary:
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death. Amen.
On the fourth bead, say the Glory Be and The Fatima prayers.
Glory be to the Father and to
the Son and to the Holy Ghost,
as it was in the beginning, is now
and ever shall be, world without
end. Amen.
The Fatima Prayer
O my Jesus
Forgive us ours sins,
save us from the fires of Hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those
most in need of thy mercy.
3) Announce the first mystery then say the Our Father.
4) Say ten Hail Marys, one on each of the ten beads while meditating on the mystery.
5) Say the Glory Be and Oh My Jesus.
6) Announce the second mystery and say the Our Father. Repeat steps

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4 & 5 and continue with the third, fourth and fifth mysteries in the same way.
7) Say the Hail Holy Queen and end with the sign of the cross.
Hail, Holy Queen:
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy!
Our life, our sweetness, and our hope!
To thee do we cry, poor banished
children of Eve, to thee do we send
up our sighs, mourning and weeping
in this valley, of tears.
Turn, then, most gracious advocate,
thine eyes of mercy toward us; and
after this our exile show unto us the
blessed fruit of thy womb Jesus;
O clement, O loving, O sweet virgin Mary.
Pray for us, O holy Mother of God
That we may be made worthy of the
promises of Christ.
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy!

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Saint Philomena at La Salette

Saint Philomena the Inspirer of the National Pilgrimages to La Salette
(The following was transcribed from the book, HISTORY OF SAINT PHILOMENA, Edited by Charles Henry
Bowden, Priest of the Oratory, published in 1894.)
In October, 1871, shortly after the close of the Franco-German war, and the terrible scenes of the Commune,
a young priest from Paris, full of the sad memories of the past and of forebodings for the future, was praying at
Ars at the tomb of the Curé, and before the altar of Saint Philomena, for some help for his beloved country,
and pondering over the means of turning aside from it the just anger of God. Seeing that there was nothing to
be hoped for from men, and thinking that its only remedy lay in the all-powerful protection of the Blessed Virgin,
it occurred to him that the most efficacious way to regaining for unfortunate France the favor of its august

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Queen would be to attract its people in a great, a national, pilgrimage to those mountains where she herself
had come down to foretell and weep over its misfortunes.

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The Saint Philomena Statue at La Salette France
On his return to Paris he communicated to some friends the idea with which Saint Philomena had inspired him.
He met with great hesitation and objection at first, for the difficulties that lay in the way seemed insuperable.
“Who will listen to our voice?” he was asked; “Shall we not preach in a desert?” But in the parish of Saint
Gervais novenas were begun by those devout to the Virgin of Mugnano to obtain from heaven the means to carry
out this inspiration of hers; and on the eight of December, 1871, forty pious persons, each of whom had
received some favor from her, met before the altar of the Saint, and resolved to carry it into effect, and to invite,
not only the parish of Saint Gervais, but the whole of France, to join them.

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The Basilica at La Salette France.
A circular was addressed to all the Catholic committees of France, which after pointing out the impiety and
infidelity of their country and the terrible chastisements she had merited and undergone, invited all Catholics to
make a grand, national, pilgrimage to Ars and La Salette, to ask of God the conversion of France, and the
deliverance of the August Prisoner of the Vatican.
It continued in these words: - “They place themselves under the protection of Saint Philomena, the Thaumaturga
of the nineteenth century, because it is to her that the initiative of the project is due; for it was at the feet of
her altars that it was conceived and the promise of it was made. All those who will enroll themselves at Paris
with them in this new crusade, this pacific army for France and the Church, will start from Saint Gervais, (where
a Mass will be said for them,) from that Place de l’Hotel de Ville where so many scenes of disorder have
been enacted, so many revolutions begun, and will go to Villefanche. There they will be met by the pilgrims
from Lyons and the neighboring towns, and all together, after kneeling at the tomb of the Curé of Ars, will direct
their steps toward La Salette, receiving on their passage, like a human flood ever increasing, the throngs of
the faithful who may wish to join them.
“This national pilgrimage to La Salette will take place during the Octave of the feast of the Assumption. It
will thus follow and prolong the feast of the Virgin Protectress of France.”
As soon as this project became known it was highly applauded and encouraged. The Nuncio of the Holy Father
at Paris was moved even to tears on reading the circular which announced it to the Christian world. And
many Bishops urged their flocks to join in it in order to implore he Divine clemency on the nation, and to turn
aside the punishments it had so justly merited by its crimes.

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At 6 o’clock on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1872, a large number of Parisians might have been seen
hurrying eagerly across the Place de l’Hotel de Ville and strange to say, at the wintry season and early hour, many
of them carried in their hands wreaths of bright colored flowers. Passing by the municipal buildings in ruins,
they entered the church of Saint Gervais, and made tier way to the Lady Chapel, which was soon thronged
to overflowing. A venerable priest was saying Mass, and this pious crowd was soon immersed in recollection
and fervent prayer. At the Communion they rose and approached the altar, where four hundred, and amongst
them one hundred men, received the Bread of Angels. After mass, the greater part of them proceeded
towards another side chapel, that of Saint Philomena. In a moment the chapel was brilliantly illuminated, the
altar was covered with flowers and the floor strewn with red and white wreaths, the symbols of virginity
and martyrdom.

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“This worship, these thank-offerings to the Virgin Martyr,” said the Sacristan in answer to one who questioned
him, “are in gratitude for the special protection she had bestowed, not only upon the church in which you
stand, but also upon those persons whom you see kneeling and praying here. There is not one of them who
has not to than her for some benefit, some consolation given to his soul, some solace or cure of moral
or physical sufferints…”
It was at this moment that the congregation thus assembled there made a solemn vow to undertake a
national pilgrimage to Ars and to La Salette, under the protection of Saint Philomena, the Thaumaturga of
the nineteenth century, to obtain the conversion and salvation of France, and the deliverance of the Sovereign Pontiff.

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The priest who had first suggested the idea of a national pilgrimage was too young and too deeply immersed
in parochial work to place himself at the head of such a movement; but with some difficulty he induced
the Augustinian Fathers to undertake the management of it. Thus was founded the “Comité général des Pélérinages.”
Their appeal to the nation was warmly taken up, and resulted in the great national pilgrimage to La Salette of
1872. On the eighteenth of August in that year, the doors of Saint Gervais were once more thrown open to admit
a magnificent cortège of pilgrims who had come from all parts of France to ask for a blessing upon their
enterprise from Saint Philomena, from whose altar they were to set out. In the absence of Mgr. Ségur, who
was prevented at the last moment from addressing them, M. l’Abeeé Tilloy gave them an eloquent
exhortation, pointing out to them the nobleness and beauty of the aim they had proposed to themselves.
He concluded in these words: - “France can only be saved by the triumph of the Church. Our enterprise will not
be barren, but eminently fertile. We set forth after having placed ourselves under the protection of the Saint who
had inspired such great works, to whom this parish so justly owes a special worship, and whom we shall meet
again tomorrow at Ars, in the sanctuary which will be our first stage. Let us have confidence; Saint Philomena will
not abandon us; let us walk firmly, resolutely, and recollectedly; let us set an example to all; let us edify
the provinces through which we shall pass; so that, as it is from Paris that have come forth evil doctrines, fatal to
the religion and social order, so we may bring out of it a better influence, and propagate the salutary teachings
of penance and conversion.”

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Strengthened by these words, the pilgrims bowed down for the last time before the altar of the Thaumaturga,
and departed to the sacred mountain, to pray there for France. They were numbered by the thousands, and
they carried with them a splendid banner of the Saint with the words: - “Sainte Philomène, Inspiratrice
de Pélérinages Nationaux,” inscribed upon it, which was deposited at La Salette.

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The work once begun, it soon spread, and every year public pilgrimages have since been made, from various parts
of France to the several sanctuaries of that country, not only to La Salette, but to Lourdes, to Chartres, Paray-
le-Monial, Le Puy, and even to Rome itself, to pray of the salvation of France and the deliverance of the
Sovereign Pontiff out of the hands of his enemies.
The movement extended further than this; for in 1882 one thousand pilgrims, filling two ships, boldly set sail
for Palesine, as a pilgrimage of penance. The promoter of the first public pilgrimage was this time the companion
of their voyage; for a group of her pious clients carried with them a statue of her, to place it on that sacred
land trodden by the feet of the Savior Himself.

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On the twenty-fifth of May, the anniversary of the discovery of the body of the Thaumaturga in the Catacombs,
the church of the Ecce Homo at Jerusalem was filled to overflowing with pilgrims who had come to assist at
the solemn erection of her statue on the spot designated for it by Our Lady’s convert, the venerable Pére
Alphonse Ratisbonne, then still living; and Saint Philomena was acclaimed many times over as the Apostle of the
new Crusades.
It is true, pilgrimages had been made, and many of them, before that one to La Salette in 1872, but they were
small and of comparatively private or parochial character; but at the simple inspiration of the Virgin of Mugnano,
a pilgrimage of a truly national character is organized, not without difficulty, like all the works of God, and
is accomplished, after vanquishing the greatest obstacles. It must be confessed that the imposing and
peaceful manifestations which we witness to-day owe their initiative, as well as their national character to that
first-born of modern pilgrimages inspired by Saint Philomena and put in execution at the foot of her altar at

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Saint Gervais in Paris.

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Inside The Basilica at La Salette France.
As a memorial of the first national pilgrimage an altar was dedicated to Saint Philomena in the church of Notre
Dame de La Salette, 3 rue de Dantzig, Paris-Vaugirard, the mother-house of the Congregation of Brothers of
Saint Vincent of Paul, founded by M. Le Prévost.
It was here also that has since been established the Œuvre de Sainte Philomène, an Association (an extension of
the one at Saint Gervais), whose primary object is to unite in prayer to obtain through the intercession of this
Saint, the return to God of the working classes, and the Christian education of youth. It now numbers many
thousand members in all parts of the globe. It was canonically erected February 10, 1884, by the Cardinal
Archbishop of Paris, and blessed, indulgenced, and extended to the Universal Church, by Leo XIII, on the twelfth
of May in the same year; and was also spontaneously raised by him to the rank of Arch-
Confraternity (Archconfraternity) on the twenty-fourth of September, 1889.
The Messager de Ste Philomène et du Vénérable Curé d’Ars is published here every month and contains
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the pilgrimages to Ars and the progress of the Canonization of its Ven. Curé, as well as reports of the
various charitable works carried on in France for the salvation of the working classes.
The 15 Promises Made by the Blessed

Virgin to St. Dominic and Blessed Alanus

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1. To all those who shall recite my Rosary devoutly, I promise my special
protection and very great graces.
2. Those who shall persevere in the recitation of my Rosary will receive some
signal grace.
3. The Rosary will be a very powerful armor against Hell; it will destroy vice,
deliver from sin and dispel heresy.
4. The Rosary will make virtue and good works flourish, and will obtain for souls
the most abundant Divine mercies; it will substitute in hearts love of God for love
of the world and elevate them to desire heavenly and eternal goods. Oh, that
souls would sanctify themselves by this means!
5. Those who trust themselves to me through the Rosary will not perish.
6. Those who shall recite my Rosary piously, considering its mysteries, will
not be overwhelmed by misfortune, nor die a bad death.
7. Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the consolations of the
Church or without grace.
8. Those who shall recite my Rosary will find during their life and at their death,
the light of God, the fullness of His grace and will share in the merits of the
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9. I will deliver very promptly from purgatory the souls devoted to my Rosary.
10. The true children of my Rosary will enjoy great glory in Heaven.
11. What you shall ask through my Rosary, you shall obtain.
12. Those who propagate my Rosary will obtain through me aid in all their
necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Son that all the members of the Rosary
Confraternity shall have for their intercessors in life and death the Saints of
Heaven.
14. Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are my beloved children, the brothers
and sisters of Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of predestination.
Imprimatur: Most Rev. Clarence G. Issenmann, STD,
Bishop of Cleveland

Library
· A Week of Daily Rosary
· Books translated into the national language of Pakistan

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o Saint Philomena
o Pauline Jaricot
o Universal Living Rosary Association Newsletter - July to September 2008
· Decade Meditation
· Devotional, a Summary of the History of the Formation of the ULRA
· Father Naidenoff, Pauline Jaricot Biographer in charge of her cause. Letter and His
Biography.
· Greetings from Anthony Foster Oduro, St. Philomena's House, St. Peter's Cathedral
Basilica, Ghana
· Message from Ukraine Universal Living Rosary Center, Miraculous Medals
· Miraculous Medal Leaflet
· Pious Exercises of the Living Rosary
· Rosa Mystica by Kenelm Digby Best (33.1mb)
· Sanctity Through the Rosary by Edouard Hugon, O.P. (9.94mb)
· Scapular Brochure
· The Convert's Rosary by Alice M. Gardiner (1.97mb)
· The Excellence of the Rosary Conferences for Devotions in Honor of the Blessed Virgin by
Rev. M. J. Frings (5.43mb)

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· The Glories of Mary, Translated From the Italian of St. Alphonsus Liguori Founder of the
Congregation of the Holt Redeemer (60mb)
· The Purpose of the Universal Living Rosary Association
· The Treasures of the Rosary by the very Rev. Charles Hyacinth Mckenna (18.2mb)
· Universal Living Rosary India Newsletter, November - December 2008

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Pauline Jaricot’s home: Lorette

In 1832 Pauline Marie Jaricot acquired an estate 42, montée Saint Barthélémy, with an exceptional situation on
the hill side between the Saint John cathedral and Fourvière, a unique view over Lyon and its outskirts.
Elevation view of Pauline Jarictot's Home, Lorette.
The Lorette house was built on roman ruins, and the first documents dating back to the beginning of the 16th
century refer to a building called "house of Breda" describing two main independent buildings side by side, flanked
by a tower and surrounded by meadow down to the foothill.

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Very Old Etching of Pauline's home.
Throughout the centuries the mansion has had several owners and a few famous hosts.

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View of Basilica of Fourvière above and behind Pauline's Home in Lyon, France.
Such as King Henry the IVth who lodged his mistress Gabrielle d’Estrée Marquise de Monceau there, a few
days before her solemn entry in Lyon on September 4, 1595.
In 1832 the house is purchased by Pauline Marie Jaricot, together with several pieces of land for various
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Front View of Main Entrance of Pauline's Home.
She had a chapel dedicated to Saint Philomena as well as outbuildings; she also had the house re-handled to host
the main office the "Living Rosary Institution".
She named this house "Lorette" in memory of the Lorette sanctuary in Italy where the walls of the

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Annunciation house are installed.
Aerial View Showing Pauline's Home.
In 1851 after the bankruptcy of the " Our Lady of the Angels" factory, in order to pay back her creditors, she
opened a toll staircase giving access to the Fourvière sanctuary which was only a simple chapel topped by a
golden statue of the Blessed Virgin by Fabisch.
After her death in 1862 the Fourvière Commission, engaged in the erection of the Basilica, purchased the house.
In 1975 the Fourvière Commission sold the house to the Pontifical Mission Societies.

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Sainte philoméne Chapel at Lorette, Where the Bishop Offers Mass Once a Month.
200 years after Pauline Marie Jaricot’s birth, the PMS decided to give a new life to her house of Lorette by launching
a large renovation program. Their will is to keep the patrimonial interest of the site as well as to establish
the spiritual heritage of Pauline Jaricot and give a new momentum to the missionary work of the Church.

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Aerial View Showing Pauline's Home in Relation to the Basilica of Fourvière Behind and Above it.

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Saint Philomena Cathedral in Mysore, India

This beautiful Cathedral was built in 1956 and
is one of the largest churches in the country. It
has been built in the Gothic style with beautiful
stain glass windows and lofty towers. The
illuminated church in the evening is a
wonderful site not to be missed.
A priceless French statue of a celebrated Greek saint in a German cathedral
located in the heart of India, is how some have described Mysore’s famous Saint
Philomena’s Cathedral.
Located in the north of the city, on Cathedral
Road, is Saint Philomena’s Cathedral, among
the most majestic churches in India. Drawing
inspiration from Germany’s Cologne Cathedral,
this colossal church built in the neo-Gothic style
was designed by the Reverend Rene Feuge.
The twin spires of the Cathedral, 175 feet in height, are seen from miles around
making it a distinctive city landmark. The main hall or nave of the cathedral can
seat up to 800 people and is as exquisitely conceived as the ornately crafted
exterior with beautiful stained glass windows depicting scenes from the birth of
Christ, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Ascension of
Christ.
The cathedral has a crypt that houses a beautiful statue, acquired from France,
of Saint Philomena, a 3rd century saint from Greece.

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The Saint Philomena's Church in
Mysore is one of the oldest
churches in India. It is over 200
years old. Initially over 250
years ago there was a small
church in its place. When the
capital of Mysore state was
move from Srirangapatnam to Mysore city in 1799, many British officers and
soldiers came and settled down in Mysore. The Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III
realized the need for a Christian church for these people. So the Maharaja gave
them a small plot of land on the Mysore-Bangalore Road and a little church came
up there. As the city expanded and the Christian population of the city increased
there was a need for a larger church.
So plans for made to build a larger
church and thus came into existence
the famous Saint Philomena Church
of Mysore. Maharaja Krishnaraja
Wodeyar IV laid the foundation of the
new church on October 28th, 1933
that was to be built in the place of
the small church built by his
grandfather. A Frenchman named
Daly designed the church. The floor
plan of the cathedral is in the form of
a cross. The long part of the cross is the 'nave', which is the congregation hall.
The two arms of the cross are the 'transepts'. The fourth part containing the altar
and the choir is the 'crossing'.
The Holy Mass is performed daily in
Kannada, Tamil and English at the table in
the sanctum sanctorum. Behind this is an
exquisite marble altar on which the statue of
Saint Philomena is placed. There is also an
idol of Christ lying in his sacred wounds.
Above the sanctum there are lovely stained
glass windows from France with painting
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Resurrection. The part of the church that is most attractive is the towers or
spires. These towers resemble that of a cathedral in Cologne in Germany and
those of St. Patrick's Church in New York. The two spires are 175 feet tall.
The entire church is built in the Gothic style is one of the largest Cathedrals in
South Asia. The Church has the relic of the 3rd century Saint Philomena that is in
a beautiful catacomb that is below the main altar. The construction of the church
was completed under Bishop Rene Fuga's supervision. At that time Thamboo
Chetty, was the Huzur Secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore, heard about the
greatness of Saint Philomena and obtained a relic of the saint from Peter Pisani,
Apostolic Delegate of the East Indies in 1926. After obtaining the relic it was
handed over to Fr. Cochet. The next year a new state of Saint Philomena was
brought from France.
The story of Saint Philomena dates back to the 3rd century A.D. Philomena was
the daughter of the monarch of a small state in Greece. Her parents were
childless. They prayed to God and asked Him to bless them with a child and
promised to convert to Christianity if their wish was granted. The next year
Philomena was born to them. Even in her childhood Philomena showed signs of
piety. When Philomena was 13 years' old her father took her to Rome to obtain
the favour of Emperor Diocletion. The Emperor was enthralled by her beauty and
wanted to marry her. But she refused and vowed to give herself to God. As she
refused to marry the Emperor she was tortured and beheaded in Rome.
But people's devotion for her
spread near and far and she
was given sainthood. There are
a number of churches dedicated
to her all over the world. Today
the church stands as a
monument to the secular outlook of the Mysore rulers. It is no longer just a
religious place but has become a major tourist attraction in Mysore. There is an
orphanage on the premises of the church that is run by the church. The church is
located at a distance of 3kms from the city bus stand 2km from the Palace. The
church is open from 8am to 6pm. Holy Mass is held in the morning and evening.
Special masses are held on Sundays and on festivals. An Annual Feast is held on
August 11th each year
The Cathedral is open from 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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Georges Naidenoff - The Voice of the Heart

of Pauline!
One day a holy card of Pauline Marie Jaricot was sent to Dickinson by a member.
This card contained the name and address of the Secretariat of Pauline’s work and
cause in Lyon, France. We wrote at once to share with this office the revival of the
Living Rosary in Texas. Father offered us much good encouragement. Through the
years we kept Father Naidenoff abreast of the work, its growth; the joys as well as
the trials. In 1988, Father sent to us a First Class relic of Venn. Pauline Marie Jaricot
which contained this inscription: “You will find with this letter a precious relic of
Venn. Pauline Marie Jaricot. Until now, NO ONE has ever received a relic of
Pauline; you are the first and only ones. Guard it as a great treasure!” The words
Father wrote to us through our years we were, indeed, doing the work of Pauline:
"Pauline will help you from above; May God and Our Immaculate Mother give
you the strength to struggle against the difficulties and crosses with the same
energy and uprightness of our saintly friend, Pauline Marie; I encourage you in
your beautiful work; the Living Rosary, of which you are the animator, is blessed
by God; My Mass on the feast of Pentecost is special for me as it is my assigned
mystery in the Association; May you be given the health to continue with
magnificent courage, your spiritual combat."
In 1994 Georges Naidenoff suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed. This
ended the beautiful labor in which Father had been engaged of compiling and
editing the complete life and works of Pauline on the basis of 25,000 pages of
written material. With profound patience and love he now embraces his life of
suffering and total dependence. During that time through the help of his dear
secretary and friend, Simone Boudoin he wrote to us: “We are constantly

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astonished by the growth of the Living Rosary; You walk in the footsteps of
Pauline who must be very pleased with you; We are so happy that many people
pray to Pauline Jaricot through the Living Rosary because she is entirely
forgotten by her beloved France; We express again our deep affection for you
and our union with you in prayer; Your two important letters were received by
Father with much joy and which made us realize the difficulties you encounter
for the development of the Living Rosary in your country and in the world.”
Father was a man of few words, but his direction and support to us came straight
from the heart of Pauline! Thanks be to God I had taken time to share with Father
news and photos of Pauline’s Press and the scope of her work just shortly before his
last letter arrived.
“Today, I write to you after the departure of Georges Naidenoff for Heaven.
Three years and four months of paralysis and 11 days of Calvary at the hospital,
Hotel-Dieu where Pauline used to visit the sick. Towards 7:00 a.m. on August
19, the feast of St. John Eudes, He departed this world and was laid to rest on
August 22nd, Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary! These are several lines
dedicated by the Pére a few days before his death."
This was Father’s last letter…
“Dear Patti, I was able to read your last letter, so confiding, so simple, so near
to God. Your letter is to me a very precious celestial souvenir.”
It seems to me that this was Father’s last will and testament to me, and through

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me, to all of you members, in which he imparted his blessing to us, which is and
always was for us, the very blessing of the heart of Pauline! From his place close to
God, he is surely praying for each and every one of us, his family. Let us with fervor
and perseverance, remember our dear Father Naidenoff. May he rest in Peace.
I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the race…
I have kept the faith
Timothy 4:7
Correspondence From Fr. Naidenoff to The Universal Living
Rosary Association
Father Naidenoff letter to ULRA 1991… “Living Rosary… is a work blessed by God”
Father Naidenoff Letter to ULRA June 1998… “…you walk in the footsteps of Pauline”
Fr. Georges Naidenoff
(1910-1998)
Pere Naidenoff spoke little of his difficult childhood. He was born in Odessa in 1910,
to a Russian Father and a French mother. In 1912, he visited his mother’s family in
France, and in 1919 he went to France with his mother to live there permanently.
Georges and his mother lived for a time in a refuge camp near Voreppe. Then, they
moved to the Parisian area.
In Secondary School, the priest encouraged Georges to attend a Catholic private
school in Lisieux. It was here, at the age of 12, convalescing from an appendectomy
that someone put into his hand the book, "Story of a Soul" by St. Therese of
Lisieux. This was at a time that she was not yet beatified. The book revealed the
depth and scope of God's love for him. Georges liked to speak of this experience as
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At the end of the Petit Seminary, his spiritual director suggested a novitiate in the
Order of the Jesuits, he entered in 1931. During the 40 years which followed, the
name of Pere Naidenoff would be associated with the magazine MISSI. (Magazine
d'Information Spiritualle et de Solidarite Internationale).
This Magazine showed the Christian view of the world. Many issues were focused on
a specific country; one finds precise information on the history, geography,
economy, and the culture of the country, and of course on the place and role of the
Church in that specific country. The photographs, as well as the articles give an
impression of the country and its peoples which brought forth their most positive
aspects for the reader. In order to achieve this, Pere Naidenoff looked for the best
sources for his information and endeavored to communicate with local writers so
that he could follow the current events of the country.
Pere Naidenoff had the soul and the competence of a professional journalist. One
admired the quality of his writing and editing, the choice of photographs and the
skillful way they were laid out on the page. Pere Naidenoff did not turn down the
chance to see places for himself. Two voyages are noteworthy: the first to Vietnam
(under Bao-Dai), the second to Bulgaria (while still under the Iron Curtain).
His work as a journalist and as director of the magazine left him little time for other
things. One sees, however, that, until 1970, he assumed the role of the Director of
"Ad Lucem" a charitable society for the laity who wished to devote their lives to the
missions. Father was not a "satelitte" distant from his community; he was near
them, and when they asked things of him his reply was always without hesitation,
"YES"! When Fr. Madelin, Provincial of France, envisioned putting a book together
commemorating the Ignatian anniversaries, which would be attractive, well
illustrated and easy to read, he turned to the journalistic talent of Pere Naidenoff.
The realization of this project took much time and work, and the first issues of
"Jesuites" came out by the end of 1983. In his announcement of the book to the
Press, he said simply that the request by the Order to do the work pleased him very
much.
In 1986, Father stepped down as Director and Editor-in-Chief of the MISSI. The last
issue of the MISSI was in 1991. But the team of collaborators kept the title and the
spirit of the original magazine and, in 1992, with more modest means, "Missi
Synthese" came out. Even when no longer with the MISSI, Pere Naidenoff would
remain a writer almost to the end of his life. In 1986, the very year the Living
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aricot’ with a preface by the Cardinal DeDourtray. At the same time he diligently
began work on an exhaustive biography of Pauline ]aricot. All the archives were
placed at his disposal. Until illness interrupted his work in 1995, more than 500
pages of the manuscript had already been typed. He then went to Chauderaie.
Father suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in the limbs of his right side. His speech
was affected as well. He never again was able to hold a pen or pencil, to continue
his work. This never affected his morale or his sweet manner. Even though loyal
friends often visited him, he was left alone for long periods, yet he suffered
patiently and never complained.
When at his communal meals, he would communicate in a loud voice without the
ability of inflection, but with a jovial tone, he happily called out to others with a
jest, or a dialogue punctuated with "Ah, ah", accompanied by a mischievous
smile. The manner in which he expressed himself revealed a lucid mind at peace
with the diminished state in which he found himself. It was in this way he was found
ready when the Lord called him to Himself.
"Well done, good and faithful servant of God!"

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The Origin of the Rosary

“The Highest himself hath founded her.”
Ps. Ixxxvi.
My dear brethren, in our consideration on the rosary let us to-day reflect upon its
origin. Its origin and age bestow on this devotion a great dignity. From the
earliest times of Christianity it has been the custom of the Christians to observe
in their prayers method and perseverance. Thus it was the custom of the hermits
of the Orient, as far back as the fourth century, to devise a sequence of certain
prayers, which they counted on pebbles. We also know that long ago in England
a so-called Paternoster-cord was used for this purpose. St. Gregory, at the end of
the fourth century, spoke of such a method of devotion in veneration of the
Blessed Virgin Mary. This pious bishop thought a wreath of spiritual r6ses would
be more pleasing to the blessed Virgin than the natural roses with which the
faithful adorned her altar. He selected, therefore, a number of prayers, in praise
of the blessed Virgin, and united them into a wreath. And this was the origin of
the rosary, woven by pious hands for the veneration of Mary, the mystical rose.
In the fifth century, St. Brigid urgently commended the devotion of the rosary,
and she chose as its prayers the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Creed, and
united them into a wreath of prayers. In order to count their recital she strung
little beads of stone or wood and made a wreath of them. This custom
subsequently spread through all Christian lands, and through the centuries, to
our own days. That this devotion was always in great favor and esteem among
pious Christians may be concluded from the fact that in the grave of St. Norbert,
who died in 1134, a rosary similar to ours was found. We have proof, then, that
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days of Christianity. And it was practiced not only by monks and nuns, but found
adherents among all the faithful.
The particular manner in which we now pray the rosary was brought into vogue
by St. Dominic. This is attested by the tradition of six centuries. Twelve Popes
bear witness to this fact. We will now speak of the introduction by St. Dominic,
and will also refer to the great efficacy of this devotion since its inception. May
our reflections contribute to the greater honor of God, and of the glorious Queen
of the rosary.
The devotion of the rosary in its present form dates its origin from the thirteenth
century, and St. Dominic was selected by God as the instrument of its
introduction. Spain was the home of this great saint. In one of the valleys of
Castile there is situated a humble little village named Calarunga, where his
parents possessed a small estate. He was born there in the year 1170. While
being baptized his sponsor saw, as if in a vision, a brilliant star over the
forehead of the future saint, shedding its brilliant light through the church. As
Dominic advanced in years he increased in wisdom, virtue and piety. In due time
he devoted himself to theology, believing that in this pursuit alone he could
find the wisdom of God. Not in the pleasures of this world, but in the knowledge
of God, he sought his pastime. His favorite place was the church and the solitude
of the sanctuary. Two incidents from his schooldays throw a light upon his
character. At the time of a famine Dominic gave all that he possessed to the
poor, even all but the necessary clothes, and when he had nothing more to give,
he sold even his beloved books and gave the proceeds to the poor. When berated
by people for his excessive generosity, he said:
“How could I dare indulge in these lifeless books, when human lives are in
danger of starvation ?”
At another time St. Dominic met a woman who was weeping bitterly because she
had no money with which she could release her brother, who had been
imprisoned by the Saracens. Dominic offered to sell himself into bondage to
release this brother ; but since God had destined him to release sinful mankind
from the bondage of sin, of error and unbelief, He did not permit Dominic to do
as he offered.
At the age of twenty-five he was appointed upon the chapter of the cathedral at
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holiness, and zeal for prayer.
He spent nine years in Osma, during which time divine Providence prepared him
for his important and great vocation. This vocation became plain to him when, in
the year 1204, he went to France and saw the terrible devastation which the
prevailing heresies had wrought against the Church of Christ. The sight of this
disaster nearly broke his heart. The poison of heresy had spread among the
faithful with great rapidity, and principally in southern France. From the city of
Albi the heretics had assumed the name Albigenses.
These Albigenses discarded the doctrines of Christianity and constructed new
doctrines that played havoc with morality and social order. They were violent
enemies of Church and State, and preached disobedience and rebellion against
spiritual and temporal authority. An enemy of the Church is invariably also an
enemy of the State ; history and experience prove this. In southern France the
Albigenses secured the support of Prince Raimond, of Toulouse, a wealthy and
mighty, but, at the same time, a most godless and immoral prince of that time.
He had several wives; associated with heretics, and even gave his children to be
educated by them. This prince undertook the leadership of the heretical
Albigenses, and with them, and other rabble by which France at that time was
overrun, scoured the country, robbing and plundering wherever they went. This
lawless band, under the direction of this godless prince, robbed churches of their
treasures, murdered priests, even tore open the tabernacles and desecrated the
most holy Sacrament. A messenger of Pope Innocent III was murdered by one of
these knaves, who then found the protection of this depraved prince. Under
these conditions the Pope finally saw the necessity of preaching a crusade
against these heretics, who surpassed even the Saracens in the outrages
committed. A terrible war then ensued, in which these enemies of Church and
State were subdued, but not converted. For this there was necessary an
extraordinary spiritual effort, and divine Providence had already prepared the
instrument. St. Dominic was the tool in the hand of God to introduce and apply
an efficacious remedy, and this remedy was the rosary.
Dominic had for many years taught the doctrines of the Catholic Church to the
heretics, and had converted a number of them, but not enough to satisfy his holy
zeal. He often turned with humility to God and besought Him with tears, and
deeds of penance, that He might let him know how to accomplish better results.
Since childhood he had been a faithful servant of Mary, and had often said that
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Finally his prayers were heard in a miraculous way. One day, while on his way
from Toulouse, Dominic threw himself down on his knees and resolved not to
cease praying until his prayers were heard. Then, so the legend tells us, the
glorious Queen of heaven appeared to him, spoke words of encouragement, and
taught him how to pray the rosary, assuring him that this would be the right
weapon to conquer error and sin. With joy Dominic arose and returned to
Toulouse, and began to spread the use of the rosary, as Mary had taught him
and in the way we now recite it. He preached this devotion, explained it, and
taught the people how to pray it. It proved indeed a most efficacious means for
the conversion of apostates, heretics, and sinners. Since the lack of knowledge in
matters of faith had been the real cause why heresy so quickly spread, the
principal truths of faith and morals were now communicated to the people
through the rosary, and the principles of a Christian life were taught them in this
most sublime prayer of the Church. This was bound to bring results, and we will
give now some thought to these results.
According to the historians of those ages the effects of the rosary sermons of St.
Dominic were truly wonderful. In all cities where he preached, the people
gathered in great numbers to hear his heaven-inspired words and to pray the
rosary with St. Dominic. Sinners were converted, the faithful were strengthened
and fortified, and many thousands of those who had been led into heresy opened
their hearts again to the true faith and returned to the holy Church. The inspired
words of St. Dominic met with such splendid results that, even if the tradition did
not tell us so, the miraculous effects of this devotion would prove its heavenly
inspiration, and Pius IX, Leo XIII, as many Popes before them, have publicly
avowed their belief that St. Dominic received the rosary from our blessed Mother.
The promise which Dominic received was fulfilled. Where all other means had
failed, the humble prayer of the rosary accomplished the victory over heresy.
Thus divine wisdom and infinite power make use of humble things to effect great
achievements. Of this the great work of the redemption gives us an example.
God made the Cross the instrument of the redemption. The despised Cross, once
a shame and disgrace, was raised on the height of Calvary and became the
instrument of the redemption for all the world, the fountain of grace, a blessing
for time and eternity, the symbol of victory and glory.
St. Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians, writes:
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wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ. For I judge not myself to
know anything among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And my speech
and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the
showing of the spirit and power. That your faith might not stand on the wisdom
of men, but on the power of God. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews
indeed a stumbling block, and unto the Gentiles foolishness: But unto them that
are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of
God; for the foolish ness of God is wiser than men; but the foolish things of the
world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong. That no flesh should
glory in his sight”;
(I Cor. i and ii).
And so did God choose the rosary, this humble prayer, to work such great things,
that human effort had not been able to accomplish. What an incentive to put all
our trust in God, rather than in our own strength ! The devotion of the rosary
soon spread from southern France to all other Catholic lands, and all peoples
welcomed it with joy and prayed it with great zeal. Rosary societies were formed
and approved of by the Popes, and were richly endowed with many “indulgences.
Ever since there has been no other prayer practiced so diligently as the rosary.
And often there have been recorded miraculous effects of this devotion, no less
miraculous than the conversion of the heretics in the south of France. The
devotion as now practiced is therefore in use over seven hundred years. The
wonderful origin, its great age and the remarkable miracles that were wrought by
its use at all times, bestow a great dignity on this devotion. When we consider
the conditions that prevailed at the time of the origin of the rosary, and for the
betterment of which divine Providence provided this devotion, we can not fail to
realize a similarity of conditions in our own times. Materialism and unbelief,
connected with widespread immorality, are now prevalent as they were then.
They are causing great injury to Church, State, and homes, and will become
more destructive if not checked by the right weapon. Pope Pius IX, as also Pope
Leo XIII, have declared the rosary to be that weapon, and have exhorted
Christianity to resort to the zealous use of it. If all Christians would follow the
advice of these supreme Pontiffs, we should soon see the Catholic faith and good
morals come into their own again, and ample blessing would, through this
devotion, be bestowed upon private and public life. All the insistent endeavors of
world-wise scholars and reformers will be of no avail if God s blessing does not
rest upon their work. Only then, when the true faith and a life of faith are made
the standard of public and private merit and ethics, will the temporal, no less
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Let us, through the rosary, call to Mary for her powerful intercession in the battle
of the Church against the enemies of faith and morals, and with her intercession
we shall be sure of victory. Amen.
THE POWER OF THE ROSARY
“Lo, here is the sword of Goliath. . . . There is none like that, give it me.”; I
Kings xxi, 9.
SYNOPSIS. David, ivith God s assistance, his only weapon a pebble, slew the
giant. God gives us, as our weapon, the rosary. This has proven efficacious in the
battles of the Church against heretics and heathen armies. Examples:
Albigenses; Turks at Lepanto and Belgrade; many epidemics abated or averted
by the power of the rosary. This devotion is just as powerful for the individual
and for the family. God has shown us that He wishes many to co-operate with
the Church and with the Christian in their fight for faith and salvation. Let all use
this weapon. My dear brethren, in the first book of Kings we read how the
Philistines went forth to battle against the Israelites. The Philistines arrayed their
forces on a mountain, and the Israelites occupied a mountain on the opposite
side, so that the valley was between them. Then there went out from the hordes
of the Philistines a man named Goliath, a giant of enormous strength, who
challenged the Israelites to let one of their men fight him hand to hand, the
result of this contest to decide the victory or defeat of either army. A youth
named David, inspired and urged by the spirit of God, went forth with a few
smooth stones and a sling to meet this Philistine, and as Goliath rushed toward
him David cast the stones with the sling and struck the Philistine in the forehead,
and he fell upon his face to the earth. David then ran and stood over the
Philistine and took his sword and slew him. Israel thus gained the victory over
the Philistines. But when for this victory exceeding praise was given to David,
King Saul became angry and sought the life of the youthful hero. In his flight
David came to Nobe. Not having any weapon, he said to the high priest
Achimelech : “Hastthou here at hand a spear or a sword ?”; The high priest
answered : “Lo, here is the sword of Goliath, whom thou slewest in the valley of
Terebinth, if thou wilt take this, for there is no other but this”; And David said,
“There is none like that, give it me.”; These last words, which I have made the
text for my address to-day, we may fitly apply to the holy rosary. For the rosary
has ever since its origin proven itself a conquering weapon for the Church, as
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God and of His Church. Let us consider the fact for the greater glory of God and
of the Queen of the rosary.
Since the introduction of the rosary by St. Dominic, for more than six hundred
years therefore, the great victories of Christianity against the many and ferocious
enemies of the Church are ascribed to the devotion of the rosary. The Church has
at all times had enemies, who with all their power and in all their evil ways have
opposed and persecuted her. Nor is this surprising. Ever since Satan succeeded
in beguiling our first parents into sin, he has continued to sow dissention among
mankind. Beginning with Cain and Abel, there have been children of God who
obeyed God's commandments, and, on the other hand, children of Satan, as
Holy Scripture calls them, who seek their salvation in the pleasures of this life.
Since the time of Cain and Abel, mankind has been split into two divisions, one
seeking the kingdom of God, the other the kingdom of the world, the kingdom of
Satan. When our Savior conquered Satan He left him power over those who
make themselves slaves to the sensual pleasures, and thus there exists an evil
force against the Church, and it will exist to the end of time. This is a fact that
we must keep in view in order to fully understand and judge the conditions. The
realm of darkness, Satan s realm, stands opposed to the realm of Christ. Satan
and his adherents carry on the warfare against the Church of Christ, as they
assaulted Christ Himself. “As they have persecuted me, they will also persecute
you”; so did Christ prophecy. The Church of Christ demands the subjection of the
flesh; she preaches against luxury, pride and selfishness. She preaches chastity
and submission to the commandments of God ; she preaches penance alike to
those of high and low station in life. This angers all those who would indulge in
the evil things of this world. They cry: “Let us break her bonds asunder; and let
us cast away her yoke from us”; But as Christ foretold the persecution of His
Church, so He also foretold that the gates of hell would not prevail against her.
The Church of God will in due time conquer all her enemies, some will be
converted, while others who are obstinate will perish in the battle. In all these
battles and victories of the Church, Mary, blessed mother of her divine Founder,
co-operates with the Church through her intercession. Mary was already spoken
of in paradise as the one who would come to tread upon the head of the serpent,
the spirit of darkness. This she has done by becoming the mother of God, by
bringing forth the Redeemer. And as Jesus through Mary's cooperation came into
this world, so He desires her cooperation in ruling the world. The history of the
contests and victories of the Church verify this throughout the centuries. The evil
spirit has a twofold weapon with which he assails and combats God s Church ;
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authorities of the world Satan has endeavored since the beginning to crush the
Church; through heresy he attempts to destroy the Church by internal
dissension. Both weapons are used together, for heresy and calumny can not
prevail without substantial support, and heretics seek worldly power and
assistance. On every page of Church history we find recorded the clashes
planned by these evil forces, from which the Church always came out not
conquered, but a conqueror. The history of the veneration of Mary tells us that
the Blessed Virgin Mary helped to win these victories. During the early times,
when fierce battles against the Church were raging, bishops and priests knew of
no more efficacious means to avert these dangers than to exhort the faithful to
pray to the Blessed Virgin. Thus we read in history that the holy bishops and
martyrs Ignatius and Irenaeus did this in the second century, and in the third
century it was Pope Calixtus who advised the faithful to take refuge with the
Blessed Virgin in time of persecution of the Church. And so on through all
Christian times.
Since the introduction of the rosary by St. Dominic all great victories have been
credited to the devotion of the rosary. The first great conquest of the Church
effected by the rosary was the victory over the Albigenses, who had spread
heresy in southern France and had caused great havoc in Church and State. St.
Bernard complained in those times : “The churches are empty, the people
without priests, the Sacraments without reverence. People on their deathbed
refuse the assistance of the Church, ridicule penance.”;
How the weapon with which this heresy was conquered was the rosary we have
related in a previous sermon. This was the first glorious victory through the
devotion of the rosary. It was the sword with which the Church slew the proud
Goliath of heresy. Another wonderful victory through this miraculous weapon of
Christianity was the defeat of the Turkish navy at Lepanto, on October 7, 1571.
The so-called reformation, of which Martin Luther was the originator, had spread
over the whole of Europe, bringing in its trail destruction, dissension and war.
The Turks, who had long thirsted for vengeance upon the Christians, found
conditions favorable for their plans. They gathered all their forces to assail the
Christian lands. The princes of Europe were either indifferent, or were besieged
with difficulties in their own lands, and Luther even said he preferred the Turks to
the papacy. Pope Pius V alone realized the great danger that threatened
Christianity, and he called upon the Christian people to defend country and
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The Christian forces which could be assembled were very small compared with
those of the Turks. Nevertheless Pius V knew of another power which he realized
would be a mighty ally. With all his energy he exhorted his people to implore the
Blessed Virgin and glorious Queen of heaven, through the rosary, to come to the
assistance of the Christian army. It was, as Leo XIII said in his commendation of
the rosary, an ennobling sight, which drew the eyes of the whole world; on one
side, not far from the Corinthian Sea, the Christians prepared to sacrifice life for
religion and country ; while gathered on the other side, imploring through the
rosary Mary s assistance for the fighting Christians, were many Christians unable
to take up arms. The small army of Christians attacking the great force of the
Turkish fleet was an undertaking similar to the assault of David upon the giant
Goliath. On October 7, 1571, the deciding battle was fought, in the Bay of
Lepanto. The battle raged from six o clock in the morning until six o clock at
night. It was one of the most terrific battles ever fought. And, lo! In the evening,
toward six o clock, the battle ended in the victory of the Christians over their
powerful enemy. This wonderful victory of the Christians was undoubtedly due to
the assistance of the Blessed Virgin. Pope Pius V so declared, and in memory of
this wonderful achievement he added to the litany of the Blessed Virgin the
supplication : Help of Christians, pray for us ! “ He also ordained that the
anniversary of this victory be celebrated as the feast of “;Our Lady of Victory,”;
which Gregory XIII subsequently styled the “Feast of the Rosary”; In the annals
of the Church there is another great victory over the Turks recorded which once
more demonstrated the power of the rosary. It was the great victory in the
campaign against the Turks at the beginning of the eighteenth century. After the
Turks had been defeated at sea, they endeavored to conquer on land. They
forced their way to Hungary, and had taken possession of eight provinces, when
Emperor Charles VII sent an army against them under the command of Prince
Eugene. This army was composed of only seventy thousand men. With this
meager force Prince Eugene defeated two hundred thousand Turks and laid siege
to Belgrade, their stronghold. Prince Eugene, before engaging the enemy,
implored the help of the Blessed Virgin, through the rosary, and then with
confidence in God s assistance went to battle and to glorious victory. Thirty
thousand Turks were slain on the battlefield; the others fled. The rosary again
had won the victory, and on the feast day of the Blessed Virgin.
In the same manner as the rosary was a successful weapon against heretics and
other enemies of the Church, it has demonstrated its wonderful efficiency in
individual cases of stress, and of such I will mention a few instances. In the year
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public vow to build a chapel to our Blessed Lady of the Rosary if the epidemic
would cease. And the very day the vow was made the epidemic did abate. A
similar case happened in Cologne, where people were saved from an epidemic
after such a vow had been made. That cases like these are innumerable is
manifested by trie many chapels built as a result of such vows, and by the votive
tablets in pilgrimage churches dedicated to Mary. Sight is restored to the blind,
hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, the use of their limbs to the crippled,
diseases of all kind are cured, by invoking the intercession of the Blessed Virgin
by means of the devotion of the rosary.
The conversion of a hardened sinner is, after all, a greater miracle than all cures
of disease. And such conversions to this day are as numerous as they were at
the time the rosary was introduced. Entire nations, provinces and cities have
been converted to God through his devotion. Blessed John, a companion of St.
Dominic, wrote a book about the miraculous power of the rosary. The blessed
Alanus de la Roche tells of a bishop, in whose diocese morality was decadent,
who finally took up the devotion to the rosary, explained it to his people, prayed
it with them, and had it introduced in all parishes. Soon the people abandoned
their evil ways.
St. Clement Hofbauer assures us : “When I am called to a sick man of whom I
know that he is averse to making his peace with God, on the way I pray my
rosary, and when I reach him I am sure to find him desirous to receive the
Sacraments.; “The holy doctor Alphonsus of Liguori relates from his experience:
“;The walls of Jericho did not collapse more quickly at the trumpet call of Josue
than false teachings disappear after the earnest praying of the rosary. The
swimming pool of Jerusalem was not as healing for the bodily sick as the rosary
is as remedy for the spiritually diseased.”;
• REFERENCE: The Excellence of the Rosary Conferences for Devotions in Honor
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The Great Devotees

Pope Leo XII Declared Saint Philomena, The Great Thaumaturgist of the 19th century.
Leo XII, over and over again, expressed the highest admiration for the extraordinary power confered by the
Almighty on this hitherto unknown child Saint, and listened with delight to the accounts given him of the wonders
she worked. So authentic did he account the information he received and so irrefutable the facts related to him
that, notwithstanding the extreme care which the Church usually takes in such matters, he had no hesitation
in allowing alters to be dedicated and chapels to be erected in her honor.
Pope Gregory XVI Named her Patroness of the Living Rosary and conceded to her the Universal cult.
Gregory XVI was himself a witness of the great miracle of Mugnano, the cure of Pauline Marie Jaricot. He visited
her in Rome before her departure for Mugnano and verified for himself the desperate condition in which she lay.
On her return to Rome Miss Jaricot was received by the Sovereign Pontiff with the warmest affection. He did
not conceal his amazement exclaiming: "Is this indeed, our daughter or is it a vision from the other world?"
Thought profoundly touched by what he himself declared to be a "miracle of the first class" he in nowise relaxed
the rigorous laws of the Roman tribunals. On the contrary he commanded the Sacred Congregation of Rites
to proceed at once to a thorough investigation of the cause. The difficulties that had arisen were carefully
analyzed, the doubts that had been raised were sifted to the utmost. All the facts from the discovery of the relics
in 1802 to the latest miracles worked by the Saint were subjected to the minutest scrutiny, and this by the
most experienced and keenest experts in Rome. After a protracted examination the Sacred Congregation gave a
full and favorable decision in favor of the cult of the Saint. Yet the Holy Father, notwithstanding his own personal
love for Saint Philomena, spent two more years in prayer and deliberation before making his final renouncement.
At last to the great delight of the Saint's devoted clients, among whom were numbered several
distinguished Bishops, Archbishops and Cardinals, the Solemn Approval of the Church was made public. This was
so complete and conferred so much glory on the Saint that it most amply compensated for the delay which
had occurred.
The Pope was not content that Saint Philomena should be resided to the honors of the altar, and that her feast
be established and her office given to the Church, he went much further and declared her to be "the Great
Wonder-Worker of the XIX century" thus giving the Church's solemn sanction to those marvelous prodigies alleged
to have been worked by the Saint, and effectually silencing the self-constituted critics who had taken on
themselves to ridicule her cult in face of overwhelming evidence.
Not long after the same Holy Father gave the Saint the new title of Patroness of the Living Rosary.
As a last act of devotion and with the object of manifesting his personal affection for the Holy Virgin, the Pontiff
sent a magnificent gold and silver lamp to her Sanctuary in Mugnano.

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Pope Pius IX Miraculously cured by the Saint. When he became Pope, he made a pilgrimage to her sanctuary
on November 7, 1849.
Pius IX was, perhaps, of all the Popes, the one who showed most special devotion to the Saint. When Archbishop
of Spoleto he was already her devout client and earnestly spread her devotion. Later on, when Archbishop of
Imola he fell dangerously ill and the greatest fears were entertained for his life. Near his bedside stood a
beautiful image of his dear Saint who was heard to rap distinctly as she sometimes does, when about to
perform some great miracle. Immediately favorable symptoms were noticed in the patient and these
speedily developed into rapid convalescence. Years rolled by and the Archbishop became the immortal Pontiff of
the Infallibility and the Immaculate Conception.
Far from forgetting his dear patroness when raised to the throne of St. Peter, this great Pope availed himself of
his supreme power to shed still greater lustre on the name of Saint Philomena.
To the intense joy of the inhabitants of Mugnano, he went on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of his Benefactress where
he was solemnly received by the Bishop of Nola, the King, Queen and all the members of the Royal Family of
Naples. He said mass on the alter of the Saint and afterwards publicly venerated her relics. He also declared her
to be secondary Patroness of the Kingdom of Naples. In the year 1849 he named Saint Philomena Patroness of
the Children of Mary.
He granted her, later on, a proper office, which is such an extraordinary privilege that rarely or never has it
been granted to any other Saint under similar circumstances.
When dying the aged Pontiff sent a most beautiful offering to Mugnano, the last touching tribute of his love
and gratitude.
Pope Leo XIII While Cardinal, made two pilgrimages to the Sanctuary.
Leo XIII before becoming Pope made two pilgrimages to Mugnano. Later on when Vicar of Christ he sent a
valuable cross to the Sanctuary. He approved the Confraternity of the Saint and raised it to the rank of an
Arch confraternity, enriching it with important indulgences.
St. Pius X Elevated the Pious Archconfraternity of Saint Philomena on May 21, 1912, into a Universal
Pious Archconfraternity.
St. Pius X was no less devout to the Little Saint, to whom he sent by special envoy a magnificent gold ring and
other costly presents. He was always pleased to hear of the wonders she worked.
The Servant of God, Sister Maria Luisa of Jesus. A fervent devotee of the Saint. She founded in Naples
the religious order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows and Saint Philomena.
The Holy Curé of Ars. A great devotee of Saint Philomena, he diffused devotion to her throughout France.

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Francesco De Lucia’s presentiments had not deceived him, as he soon saw for himself. A movement of faith
and fervor resulted wherever the name of Filumena was spoken. The little that was known about her reminded
people of the early Christians’ resistance and the ambient corruption, the heroism of children and virgins,
the chastisement of their persecutors, the failure of brute force against ho9ly weakness.
Rome distinguished itself among all cities for its enthusiastic devotion. The young Saint had lived and suffered
within its walls. Long buried with her tomb, her name returned to it hallowed with exceptional glory. Wonderful
cures would later increase popular confidence in the little martyr. In December 1833, for example, a Franciscan
nun, Sister Maria Jesualda Garelli, was virtually resurrected after arriving at the end of her agony. About the
same time, in a poor house deep in an alley of the city, a little girl was healed; her grandmother, Anna Maria
Taigi, now Blessed, was a devoted servant of Saint Philomena.

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The husband of Blessed Anna
Maria Taigi related a miracle during her process of beatification: “I recall that Peppina, Sofia’s little girl (Sofia was
the couple’s eldest daughter), had damaged one of her eyes. The surgeons said the pupil was torn, and they held
out no hope of that cure…The Servant of God made the sign of the cross with some of Saint Philomena’s oil,
placed her hand on the child’s head and sent her to bed. Peppina slept very well, without any pain; the next
morning her eye was so perfectly healed that she was able to go to school with the pious Schoolmistresses of
Jesus. The surgeon could not believe it; he insisted on making several tests to be sure that she could see.” I
the same book, Anna Maria Taigi’s biographer declares that the saintly mother daily invoked the little martyr of
the catacombs and had her family invoke her. She placed her picture in their home; it is probable, judging from
the miraculous event related above, that a lamp burned in front of the picture from time to time. As she lay
dying, Anna Maria Taigi, a model of Christian mothers, having given her last recommendations to her
children, “placed them especially under the protection of Saint Philomena whose devotion she had
always propagated.”
The list of ecclesiastical and lay pilgrims is almost endless, as the registry at the Sanctuary proves. A few of
the names include; General Pietro Vial, Duke of Marigliano; Father Antonin Monnin, S.J., first biographer of the
Cure of
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Melanie
Calvat, seeress of La Salette , who was Sister Mary of the Cross a the time of her visit; Father Alexandre
Vincent Jandel, superior general of the Dominicans and one of the first disciples of Lacordaire;

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Father Louis
Petit, director of the Archconfraternity of Saint Philomena and an ardent apostle of the Saint; Dom Sebastian
Wyart, abbot general of the Reformed Cistercians; and many, many more.
Kings and queens were not the last ones to come and venerate the victim of the pagan Caesars. King Ferdinand
of the Two Sicilies made frequent visits to the shrine and favored it with generous donations and privileges. It is
said that the wife, Blessed Marie Christine of Savoy, who was to die in the odor of sanctity obtained the birth of
King Francis II through her prayers to the Saint of Mugnano. King Ferdinand later established a daily Mass at
the reliquary altar for the deceased princess. Depositions made at her process of beatification clearly demonstrate
her deep devotion to Saint Philomena. She was beatified by Pius IX.
Maria Teresa of Austria had the wax statue clothed with a sumptuous robe. The Queen of Naples gave an
even greater honor to Philomena; imitating the Roman matrons who, after the execution of the holy victims,
had gone to wash their wounds or gather up their blood with sponges or cloths, she had the glass vial that
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of which a little blackened dust remained, was from the start especially venerated by pilgrims who
sometimes claimed to see mysterious coloration within it. In 1835 Queen Marie Amelie, wife of King Louis Philippe
of France, donated a royal mantle to Flumena.
A whole array of literature on Philomena began to appear. In 1824, Don Francesco di Lucia wrote his two-
volume Historical Relation of the Translation and the events resulting from it. Then, the rector of Our Lady of
Grace church, Monsignor Gennaro Ippolito, devoted almost eighty pages of his Memoirs to relations of
miracles worked by the Saint’s intercession. Besides narrating a great number them here and there throughout
the book, he included a hundred others in chapter 25, especially reserved for that purpose.
And then the liturgists came onto the scene. Attempts were made to obtain official approbation for this
devotion which had begun in the catacombs. In 1833 a pious prelate, Bishop Anselmo Basilici of Sutri and
Nepi, asked the Holy See to institute a special feast in honor of Saint Philomena, and the Bishop of Nola prepared
a lesson for the Beviary,.. Most of the bishops of Italy, seeing the confidence of the people, supported
their colleagues’ request. This was a realization that had been virtually unheard of previously, in favor of a Saint
not mentioned in any martyrology, and whose name was not to be found in any hagiography but had been
revealed solely by a simple sepulchral inscription. Yet the miracles that were occurring pleased this cause
more eloquently than the most scrupulous annalists.
Never the less, the head of the Church makes no haste in such serious and extraordinary matters. He decided to
wait longer, to submit the dossiers for further examination and base his personal conviction on evident proofs - in
a word, to allow experience, time and Heaven to continue their work of undeniable demonstration.
Homage of the Popes
The relation of an amazing event with tremendous repercussions made an impression on Leo XII. This event
occurred on August 10, 1823.
At Mugnano the annual novena had been inaugurated to commemorate the Translation of Filumena. A
wooden statue, the gift of the Cardinal-Archbishop of Naples, was to be carried in the procession in the
customary manner. No new ornament had been added except for a light reliquary containing a piece of
bone, suspended from the neck by a ribbon. But after only a few steps, the porters declared that the pious image
had become so heavy they could go no further. Many of those attending hastened to lend the men a hand, but to
no avail. They were obliged, and with great difficulty, to return the statue to the church. This is precisely what
had happened previously in 1805 when the relics had arrived.
The statue immediately drew everyone’s gaze and attention. The face appeared to take on the expression of a
living person and was a rosy red color. Such events at the start of the novena did not fail to excite people’s
curiosity and provoke many comments.

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The following day pilgrims began flocking in from distant places, and they kept coming throughout the nine
days. Three of them knelt before the statue; they had not been able to venerate the holy remains, which
were covered by a veil. One of these men, a native of Monteverdi, thought he could see on the face a tiny
globule that he said shone like crystal at the point of the chin. He reached out to touch it. This pearl melted
between his fingers like a spreading drop of oil. Intrigued, his companions gazed more carefully at the statue and
saw a sort of perspiration exuding from the head. This was so abundant that after wetting both sides of the face,
it flowed down to the breast.
These pilgrims immediately called to the people who were present in the church. Don Francesco di Lucia and
the pastor of Mugnano hastened over and, greatly moved, observed the singular prodigy. The mysterious
effusion localized at the head and breast of the venerable statue, left the rest of the body in tact. It was like
an unctuous manna.
News of this wonder quickly made h6te rounds. Local people and strangers alike filled the shrine. To satisfy
their pious curiosity, the statue was set on the church floor and surrounded with candles. The people expressed
their astonishment in acclamations, tears and prayers. The bells were rung to proclaim the event to the
entire countryside. The crowd was still growing when another particularity, no less surprising, was noticed. The
pink ribbon from which the reliquary was suspended, and which did not touch the moistened part in any
way, was now also impregnated with a fragrant liquid. Everyone breathed in this delightful scent, more
precious than the finest perfumes.
When the first moment of surprise had passed, spectators who wished to verify things more seriously (including,
no doubt, a few good-hearted skeptics) made several little experiments. They moistened the parts of the statue
that had remained in tact and saw them dry immediately. Then they persistently wiped off the strange sweat, but
it was unceasingly renewed beneath their hands. The experts succeeded one another, numerous and
attentive. Seeing that the wonder persisted, no purely natural explanation seemed possible.
For three whole days the wonder was visible an accessible to everyone. And it did not stop after the octave was
over and the statue had been returned to its pedestal. On several occasions, the mysterious perfume continued
to exude and to fill the entire church with its fragrance.
There were countless witnesses of this event at Mugnano, but only the signatures of the most noteworthy and
the most learned people were requested. The names form a long list in the old register of Our Lady of Grace,
which cannot be read without a certain emotion. Although the means of information were less rapid an especially
less multiplied than they are today, the news spread quite promptly throughout Italy and far beyond. It
contributed in great part to the unexpected popularization of devotion to Saint Philomena.
Was it for the purpose that Providence had acted in such a manner? With such exceptional occurrences, was it
God’s way of directing the attention of a spreading rationalism to human science’s incapacity to explain
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manifests Himself when He wishes in the wor4ld, which is His handiwork. The confidence of the faithful was
increased by those events, and critics - always intrigued by tangible proofs - were able to look, touch, discover
to their heart’s content.
Extraordinary multiplication
Saint Philomena’s bones produced another phenomenon several years later. Bishop Ansemlmo Basilici of Nepi
and Sutri and great devotion to the young martyr. He had asked the Holy See for a feast and an office in
her honor. Devotion to Filumena was spreading throughout his diocese; but to encourage it even further, he
asked his colleague from Nola for a fragment of the famous relics. Don Francesco di Lucia wrote on the subject,
“In execution of my bishop’s orders, I sent the Bishop of Nepi a reliquary containing a bond of the Saint, and also
a little paper containing dust from her bones, so that he might give some to the churches in his diocese in
which Saint Philomena was most revered… This was a pinch of dust, rather less than more, an is proven by
the authority of numerous witnesses, quoted in the transcript of the events.”
The happy bishop decided to send the desired little parcels at once to various parishes in reliquaries which
he personal sealed. For this pious labor the prelate called his vicar general into the bishopric, along with the
grand cantor, two canons of the cathedral, various ecclesiastics, and several house servants. One hundred and
thirty reliquaries had been made, but it was noticed with stupefaction that the pinch of dust sent from Mugnano
did not decrease in size as it was being distributed. It seemed to remain completely whole in the little container
in which it had been deposited at the moment of its reception.
Was this some kind of illusion? It would be assay to find out. Very attentively, they proceeded with
another distribution. This time there was no doubt possible. An undeniable wonder was occurring before the
very eyes of the bishop and his assistants. Many parcels had been taken, but the sacred ashes
remained inexhaustible in their container. Those present were deeply moved.
Monsignor Basilici, recognizing this as an intervention of a supernatural power, decided to make a third test
for further proof. He convoked other members of the clergy and some of the notables of his diocese. On
the prescribed day they all went to the bishop’s palace, where Monsignor had also brought in another local bishop
to verify the experiment with him. This time they employed a simple, straightforward procedure. They set
two envelopes in front of the witnesses: in one of them was the dust sent from Mugnano; in the other, but in
slightly smaller quantity, was dust of the bones of various martyrs.
The distribution began. Parcels were taken in equal quantities from both envelopes and then placed in
different reliquaries. Naturally, all eyes were wide open; and intense curiosity immobilized the spectators.
The delicate, meticulous work went on until the ashes of the various martyrs had run out. When the
envelope containing them was empty, it was observed that the contents of the other one were the same as they
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Was his not a miracle? Most of the witnesses thought so, and the people proclaimed it so. From then on, the
Bishop of Nepi favourably welcomed all the requests addressed to him. They arrived more numerous with
each passing day, as fame of the wonder spread. The number of parcels expediad was so great that, accounting
to the prelate’s testimony, it could be qualified as “incredible.”
Prudence of Gregory XVI
In the presence of such extraordinary events, Monsignor Basilica deemed I his duty to inform the Sovereign
Pontiff. He wrote to Gregory XVI as follows: “Most Holy Father, although request for relics of Saint Philomena
have been countless, arriving from all over the world - Russia, Belgium, Poland, Greece, France, Armenia,
America, etc. - satisfaction has been given to these requests.” The desire of possessing a speck of that
venerable dust was so ardent, he added, that the highest influences ere called upon by those who did not
address themselves directly to him.
The Bishop of Nepi also mentioned that when he had gone to Mugnano on May 31, 1835, to venerate the
sacred remains from which a few parcels had multiplied so wonderfully before his very eyes, he had related
the incident to the Apostolic Nuncio from Naples, Monsignor Ferretti. That prelate had confided to him, “It must
be the same multiplication that occurred in my hands, since the dust from the relics of the holy martyr that I
too received from Mugnano was only a very little quantity; nevertheless, after distributing it among many
persons, there was still some left.”
To his report the bishop annexed the list of distributions made at Nepi in June and July, with the dates and names
of the witnesses. There had been five hundred such distributions. He carefully noted the canonical formalities
that had been observed under such delicate circumstances.
Leaving Mugnano and Naples, Monsignor Basilici went to Rome where the Holy Father awaited him. The
virgin martyr’s fame was already great in the city of the Popes. On June 16, 1835, he was received by Gregory
XVI, who wished to learn the facts directly from an authorized eyewitness. He explained the case himself. The
Holy Father listened attentively to the prelate’s exposition, down to the slightest details, and questioned him on
the circumstances surrounding various proofs. Monsignor Basilici presented Gregory XVI with the casket
containing the relics, the documentary evidence, and the transcripts of all that had occurred during the
multiplication of the ashes.
Deeply moved, the Pope mandated the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation of Rites to examine the casket and
study the bishop’s narrative and the body of testimony in order to proceed with a new test which would not omit
any guarantee of authenticity.
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was solemnly gathered. Since Cardinal Pedicini, the prefect, was absent, Cardinal Galiffi, vice prefect, presided.
All the witnesses were put under oath. The moment had come for a final, decisive test. The cardinal
personally removed the parcels, taking out forty-five. The prodigy continued.. The experiment was conclusive.
The documents had told the truth! And so it was that in this hall of the Apostolic Palace, just as in Sutri and
Naples, just as in Rome itself two days before, Philomena’s relics “returned to life from their resting place.”
How could anyone explain such things without taking the hand of God into account? But Gregory XVI did not wish
to make a declaration yet.
When the Congregation of rites gathered in the Quirinal Palace to examine, “with all the accustomed attention,
the various motives exposed by the Most Reverend Bishop of Sutri and Nepi, in conformity with the orders of
the Most Holy Father, so as to obtain from the Holy Apostolic See an Office with the Mass of the Common of a
Virgin and Martyr in honor of Saint Philomena, whose devotion, which has spread to every corner of the world,
had inclined other prelates to make the same request,” the members of that venerable gathering left no
stone unturned in their discussions. An official document bears witness to the fact that after having
“submitted everything to an in-depth examination (and) deliberately weighed certain special circumstances in
the case in question,” the Congregation was of the opinion that “there was reason to give a favorable response
for the Office3, Mass of the Common, and Fourth Lesson proper to the double minor rite.” The rescript
mentions some exceptional events relative to devotion to the virgin and martyr.
This approbative deliberation is dated September 6, 1834. But it was no easy matter to obtain the signature
of Gregory XVI, even after the Cardinal-Prefect had informed him of the discussion. The Pope waited three years;
he followed the movement of the growing devotion attentively, then had the facts examined and discussed
once more. Moreover, he wanted proofs that would touch him personally, as it were. Indeed, up to that point
the Holy Father was sympathetic to the devotion to the young saint, but no more. In March 1834 he had deigned
to give a personal blessing to a picture of Saint Philomena that was to be exposed in a shrine in Rome; he also sent
a superb chalice and a precious medallion bearing his effigy to Mugnano
Other Notable Devotees

Some of the most enlightened servants of God are devotees of the young virgin-martyr – all distinguished for
sanctity or renowned piety. God continues to perform numerous miracles through St. Philomena’s
powerful intercession. Among the most memorable apostles devoted to her include:
Fray Andresito (Andres Garcia Acosta) – Affectionately called the “Beggar Saint,” he was known in Chile for
his tireless spreading of devotion to St. Philomena and was dedicated to working the streets of Santiago on behalf
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Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat – She was foundress of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart and a great devotee of
St. Philomena. In September 1866, Barat layed her hands on the wounds of one of her postulants before she was
to have an operation, and to the doctor’s astonishment, the patient was miraculously healed. She attributed
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Saint Peter Chanel – The first martyr of the ocean was known for his missionary work and for his simple
baggage of a crucifix on his breast, rosary in his pocket, and pictures of the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph and
St. Philomena in his breviary.

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Saint Francesca Cabrini – Mother Cabrini was the first saint canonized from the United States. She left Italy
for the United States in 1899. She was named the Saint of the Immigrants and always carried a statue of
St. Philomena.
Maria Cristina di Savoia – Servant of God and a noted benefactor of the Sanctuary, she conceived the heir to
the throne of Naples, Francis II, through the intercession of the Saint. For the grace received, she donated a
baby made of silver to the Sanctuary.
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church and home on the island to St. Philomena. He gave his life to care for lepers and was particularly concerned
for children segregated in the colony.
Saint Peter Julian Eymard – A French Catholic priest and Apostle of the Eucharist, he always kneeled before
a Sacred Relic of St. Philomena and was cured in 1854 after having recited a novena in her honor.
Blessed Bartholomew Longo – A devotee of the Little Saint and apostle of the Rosary, he placed the Shrine
of Our Lady of the Rosary in the Valley of Pompeii, visited daily by nearly 10,000 pilgrims, under her patronage.
Sister Maria Luisa of Jesus – A fervent devotee of the Saint, she founded the religious order of the Sisters of
Our Lady of Sorrows and Saint Philomena in Naples. She received details of the historical background of
St. Philomena through private revelations in August 1833 which were approved by the Holy Office in December
of that year.
Saint Maria Magdalen of Canossa – Founder of the Institution of the Daughters of Charity and dedicated to
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Saint John Neumann – He was a devotee of St. Philomena from Philadelphia and in 1846 completed the
St. Philomena Church in Pittsburg. He was appointed bishop of Philadelphia in 1852 and was the first to organize
a diocesan Catholic school system.
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) – Ordained in the priesthood in 1910, he experienced a
mystical phenomenon in 1918 when he received the visible marks of the crucifixion, making him the first
stigmatized priest in the history of Church. He was known for his ability to read the hearts of penitents and
was proclaimed a saint by Pope John Paul II in 2002. Distressed by the rumors about the cult of the Saint, Padre
Pio told an Irish devotee of the Little Saint, Mary Philomena Mulcahy: “Saint Philomena is in Paradise, the confusion
is the work of Satan.”
Blessed Anna Maria Taigi – She achieved her sanctification by living an ordinary life of wife and mother
and through her total surrender to God, help of those in need, and as an active member of the Third Order of
the Most Holy Trinity. She was known for her supernatural gifts to see present or future events as well as the state
of grace of individuals, living or dead. She witnessed the healing of her granddaughter’s damaged eye after it
was rubbed with the Holy Oil of St. Philomena. Anna Maria was greatly devoted to St. Philomena and invoked
her daily. At the time of her death, she placed her children under the saint’s protection.

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The Patronage
PATRONAGE of Saint Philomena
Patroness of the Youth with predilection for babies and children.
Confront of the afflicted and imprisoned.
The solace of the suffering and sick.
Consoler of afflicted mothers who invoke her for material or spiritual help for
their children.
Great helper of students and those who sit examinations.
Protectress of young married couples, with many times given the joys of
motherhood.
Assists and protects expectant mothers.
When invoked she encourages many conversions.
Conversion of sinners and return to the sacraments.
Assists priest in their work.
For all Spiritual and temporal problems.
There is no case too trivial or unimportant to concern her.
She exhibits her greatest patronage towards her devotees by leading them to the
love of Our Lord and Our Lady.
Patroness of the Living Rosary
Protectress of the Children of Mary

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St. Philomena, Patroness and Protrectress of the Living Rosary
Credited with countless miracles and intercessions since discovery of her tomb in the most ancient catacombs of
St. Priscilla in Rome in 1802, St. Philomena is prayed to by people of diverse ages, culture and social standing
around the world. The young virgin who was martyred at age 13, willingly traded her earthly life for
heavenly salvation and continues her work today promoting the virtues of purity and sanctity among the
world’s youth and bringing the faithful closer to our Blessed Mother and Jesus Christ. It would seem she was held
in quiet reserve by God for nearly seventeen centuries and summoned at a time when so much uncertainty
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On August 10, 1835, Pauline received a miraculous cure of a severe heart ailment at St. Philomena’s shrine
in Mugnano del Cardinale, Italy, during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Immediately following,
she appealed to Pope Gregory XVI to begin an examination for the beatification of “Filumena,” daughter of light.
And on Jan. 13, 1837, Pope Gregory XVI named St. Philomena Patroness of the Living Rosary, and declared her to
be the “Thaumaturga,” the “Great Wonder-Worker of the nineteenth century.” In a solemn decree, he raised her
to the altar of the Church, granting her a special feast day (August 11) and a Mass in her honor.
The name Philomena (fee-lo-MAY-nah) is of Latin origin. The inscription on the

original loculus tiles, is Filumena. The word filia is Latin for daughter. The word, lumena,
is Latin for, light, lamp, lantern; light of day; the eye; clearness; understanding.
Pauline promoted St. Philomena as the Supporter of Missionary Priests. Upon her return to France from Mugnano,
she was eager to recount the story of her miraculous cure with her dear friend, the Venerable Cure of Ars, St.
John Vianney , and offered him part of the precious relics she brought from the Sanctuary. Immediately,
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St. Philomena
Virgin, Martyr and Wonder Worker
The very name of Philomena contains the words: filia luminis, daughter of light. She is the enlightener of a dark
and corrupt age confounding the sneers of materialism. She is the Patroness of the Children of Mary. Her
mission today is to draw us to the Immaculate Heart of Mary through imitation of her heroic virtues of
purity, obedience and humility. Saint Philomena is an anchor of HOPE in this dark age of despair.
The Story of St. Philomena
It is said that St. Philomena revealed Her story to three people who did not know one another and who resided
in different parts of the world. These private revelations unveiled the story of St. Philomena’s life in great detail
and were amazingly identical accounts.
"Filomena" [Ital.] "Philomène" [Fr.] "Philomena" [Eng.]
One of the most well-known recipients of this revelation was the Foundress of the Oblates of Our Lady of
Sorrows, Mother Maria Luisa di Gesù, a Dominican Tertiary.
On August 3, 1833, after having received the Eucharist, the nun Maria was praying before St. Philomena’s statue
and at that moment felt a strong desire to know the true date of the Saint’s martyrdom. August 10 was the day
St. Philomena’s relics had arrived in Mugnano, Italy. This date was significant to the people of Mugnano, but not
to those who lived elsewhere. As Maria contemplated this, she closed her eyes and suddenly a gracious and
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“Dear Sister, August the tenth was the day of my rest, my triumph, my birth into Heaven, my entering into
the possession of such eternal goods as the human mind cannot possibly imagine. That is why my Heavenly
Spouse disposed, by His most high decrees that my coming to Mugnano should be on the day which had seen
my coming to Heaven! He prepared so many circumstances which should make my arrival at Mugnano glorious
and triumphant; giving joy to all the people, even though the priest who brought me had absolutely decided that
my translation should take place on the fifth of the month very quietly in his own house. My omnipotent
Spouse impeded him with so many obstacles that the priest, although he did all he could to carry out his plan,
could not do so. And so it came about that the said translation was made on the tenth, the day of my feast
in Heaven.”
The statue of Saint Philomena in the Ars Shrine, France
Mother Maria was overwhelmed by this and thought she had fallen as prey to this illusion. She took refuge in
the Sacrament of Penance, confessing the whole event to her spiritual director. He was not so hasty in disposing
of the matter. He proceeded to write to Don Francesco de Lucia in Mugnano and inquired about the truth of whether
or not he originally intended to have the translation on August 5. Don Francesco’s reply confirmed that he
indeed encountered many obstacles which detained him from carrying out his plan to arrive in Mugnano on the fifth.
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At that, Mother Luisa’ director granted her obedience to ask St. Philomena other details of her life and
martyrdom. Again, Mother Luisa went to the Saint, and begged her not to take any notice of her unworthiness, but
to consider that it was a matter of holy obedience, and to reveal more about her life. After that time, there came
a day when Maria was alone in her cell and felt her eyes being closed. She heard the gracious voice of St.
Philomena. The following account of the life of St. Philomena is taken from the official account of Fr. Di
Lucia’s Relazione Istorici di Santa Filomena and subsequent annals from locutions received by Sr. Luisa di Gesu
in August of 1833. These revelations received approval by the Holy Office, (presently the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith) on December 21, 1833.
“My dear Sister, I am the daughter of a Prince who governed a small state in Greece. My mother is also of
royal blood. My parents were without children. They were idolaters. They continually offered sacrifices and prayers
to their false gods.
A doctor from Rome named Publius lived in the palace in the service of my father. This doctor professed
Christianity. Seeing the affliction of my parents, by the impulse of the Holy Ghost, he spoke to them of
Christianity, and promised to pray for them if they consented to receive Baptism. The grace which accompanied
his words enlightened their understanding and triumphed over their will. They became Christians and obtained
the long desired happiness that Publius had assured them as the reward of their conversion. At the moment of
my birth, they gave me the name of “Lumena,” an allusion to the light of Faith of which I had been, as it were,
the fruit. The day of my Baptism they called me “Filumena,” or “Daughter of Light,” because on that day I was
born to the Faith. The affection which my parents bore me was so great that they had me always with them.
It was on this account that they took me to Rome on a journey that my father was obliged to make on the
occasion of an unjust war with which he was threatened by the haughty Diocletian. I was then thirteen years old.
On our arrival in the capital of the world, we proceeded to the palace of the Emperor and were admitted for
an audience. As soon as Diocletian saw me, his eyes were fixed upon me. He appeared to be pre-possessed in
this manner during the entire time that my father was stating with animated feelings everything that could serve
for his defense.
As soon as Father had ceased to speak, the Emperor desired him to be disturbed no longer, to banish all fear,
to think only of living in happiness. These are the Emperor’s words, ‘I shall place at your disposal all the force of
the Empire. I ask only one thing, that is the hand of your daughter.’ My father, dazzled with an honor he was
far from expecting, willingly acceded on the spot to the proposal of the Emperor.

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When we returned to our own dwelling, Father and Mother did all they could to induce me to yield to
Diocletian’s wishes and theirs. I cried, ‘Do you wish, that for the love of a man, I should break the promise I
have made to Jesus Christ? My virginity belongs to him. I can no longer dispose of it.’
‘But you were young then, too young,’ answered my father, ‘to have formed such an engagement.’ He joined
the most terrible threats to the command that he gave me to accept the hand of Diocletian. The grace of my
God rendered me invincible, and my father, not being able to make the Emperor relent, in order to disengage
himself from the promise he had given, was obliged by Diocletian to bring me to the Imperial Chamber.
I had to withstand for some time beforehand a new attack from my father’s anger. My mother, uniting her efforts
to his, endeavored to conquer my resolution. Caresses, threats, everything was employed touce me to compliance.
At last, I saw both of my parents fall at my knees and say to me with tears in their eyes, ‘My child have pity on
your father, your mother, your country, our country, our subjects.’
‘No! No,’ I answered them. ‘My virginity, which I have vowed to God, comes before everything, before you,
before my country. My kingdom is heaven.’

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My words plunged them into despair and they brought me before the Emperor, who on his part did all in his power
to win me. But his promises, his allurements, his threats, were equally useless. He then flew into a violent fit of
anger and, influenced by the Devil, had me cast into one of the prisons of the palace, where he had me loaded
with chains. Thinking that pain and shame would weaken the courage with which my Divine Spouse inspired me,
he came to see me every day. After several days, the Emperor issued an order for my chains to be loosed, that
I might take a small portion of bread and water. He renewed his attacks, some of which would have been fatal
to purity had it not been for the grace of God.
The defeats which he always experienced were for me the preludes to new tortures. Prayer supported me. I did
not cease to recommend myself to Jesus and his most pure Mother. My captivity had lasted thirty-seven days,
when, in the midst of a heavenly light, I saw Mary holding the Divine Son in her arms.
‘My daughter,’ she said to me, ‘three days more of prison and after forty days you shall leave this state of pain.’

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Such happy news made my heart beat with joy, but as the Queen of Angels had added that I should quit my
prison, to sustain, in frightful torments a combat far more terrible than those preceding, I fell instantly from joy
to the most cruel anguish; I thought it would kill me.
‘Have courage, my child,’ Mary then said to me; ‘are you unaware of the love of predilection that I bear for you?
The name, which you received in baptism, is the pledge of it for the resemblance which it has to that of my Son
and to mine. You are called Lumena, as your Spouse is called Light, Star, Sun, as I myself am called Aurora,
Star, the Moon in the fullness of its brightness, and Sun. Fear not, I will aid you. Now nature, whose
weakness humbles you, asserts its law. In the moment of combat, grace will come to lend you its force, and
your Angel, who was also mine, Gabriel, whose name expresses strength, will come to your aid. I will
recommend you especially to his care, as the well beloved among my children.’
Honoring Saint Philomena we proclaim the power of God in the strength of His Martyrs,
and His Infinite Goodness in the favors He concedes to the prayers of His Saints. This was
the theology of the Holy Curé of Ars, and this will be ours also.
Father Luis Petit, founder of the Universal Archconfraternity of Saint Philomena, Paris, France, 1859
These words of the Queen of virgins gave me courage again, and the vision disappeared, leaving my prison filled
with a celestial perfume. I experienced a joy out of this world. Something indefinable.
What the Queen of Angels had prepared me for was soon experienced. Diocletian, despairing of bending me,
decided on public chastisement to offend my virtue. He condemned me to be stripped and scourged like the Spouse
I preferred to him. These are his horrifying words.
‘Since she is not ashamed to prefer to an Emperor like me, a malefactor condemned to an infamous death by his
own people, she deserves that my justice shall treat her as he was treated.’
The prison guards hesitated to unclothe me entirely but they did tie me to a column in the presence of the great
men of the court. They lashed me with violence until I was bathed in blood. My whole body felt like one open
wound, but I did not faint.
The tyrant had me dragged back to the dungeon, expecting me to die. I hoped to join my heavenly Spouse.
Two angels, shining with light, appeared to me in the darkness. They poured a soothing balm on my
wounds, bestowing on me a vigor I did not have before the torture.
When the Emperor was informed by the change that had come over me, he had me brought before him. He
viewed me with a greedy desire and tried to persuade me that I owed my healing and regained vigor to
Jupiter, another god that he, the Emperor, had sent to me. He attempted to impress me with his belief that
Jupiter desired me to be Empress of Rome. Joining to these seductive words promises of great honor, including

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the most flattering words, Diocletian tried to caress me. Fiendishly, he attempted to complete the work of Hell
which he had begun. The Divine Spirit to whom I am indebted for constancy in preserving my purity seemed to fill
me with light and knowledge and to all the proofs which I gave of the solidity of our Faith, neither Diocletian nor
his courtiers could find an answer.
Then, the frenzied Emperor dashed at me, commanding a guard to chain an anchor around my neck and bury
me deep in the waters of the Tiber. The order was executed. I was cast into the water, but God sent me two
angels who unfastened the anchor. It fell into the river mud, where it remains no doubt to the present time.
The angels transported me gently in full view of the multitude upon the riverbank. I came back unharmed, not
even wet, after being plunged with the heavy anchor.

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When a cry of joy rose from the debauchers on the shore, and so many embraced Christianity by proclaiming
their belief in my God, Diocletian attributed my preservation to secret magic. Then the Emperor had me
dragged through the streets of Rome and shot with a shower of arrows. My blood flowed, but I did not
faint. Diocletian thought that I was dying and commanded the guards to carry me back to the dungeon.
Heaven honored me with a new favor there. I fell into a sweet sleep, and I found myself, on awaking, perfectly cured.
Diocletian learned about it. ‘Well, then,’ he cried in a fit of rage, ‘let her be pierced with sharp darts a second
time, and let her die in that torture.’ They hastened to obey him. Again, the archers bent their bows. They
gathered all their strength, but the arrows refused to second their intentions. The Emperor was present. In a rage,
he called me a magician, and thinking that the action of fire could destroy the enchantment, ordered the darts to
be made in a furnace and directed against my heart. He was obeyed, but these darts, after having passed through
a part of the space which they were to cross to come to me, took a quite contrary direction and returned to
strike those by whom they had been hurled. Six of the archers were killed by them. Several among them
renounced paganism, and the people began to render public testimony to the power of God that protected me.
These murmurs and acclamations infuriated the tyrant. He determined to hasten my death by ordering my head to
be cut off. My soul took flight towards my heavenly Spouse, who placed me, with the crown of virginity and the
palm of martyrdom, in a distinguished place among the elect. The day that was so happy for me and saw me
enter into glory was Friday, the third hour after mid-day, the same hour that saw my Divine Master expire.”

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What is noteworthy from a historical perspective is not only that this revelation was confirmed by two
other individuals unknown to each other (one a priest, the other a historian), but these other historical facts: 1)
The Third Century Roman Emperor was known for executing Christians by the use of arrows, exemplified by
St. Sebastian; 2) The Third Century Roman Emperor was also known for killing Christians by tying anchors
around their necks and throwing them into the water; 3) The reference to “Lumena” -- the name given to her
at birth, “Light” -- and then at Baptism, “Fi Lumena,” “Daughter of Light,” may explain the arrangement of the
tiles found at the grave as “Lumena,” her first given name, was on the first tile.
The Facts of St. Philomena
In spite of much research, little is known of the life of St. Philomena before the discovery of her celebrated tomb
in the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome. Details about her are derived from the revelation that she herself made to
the Servant of God, Sister Maria Luisa of Jesus, her fervent devotee, on August 3, 1833.
The following are historical facts beginning with the discovery of St. Philomena’s tomb in 1802.
May 24, 1802 - A Tomb Is Discovered

Revolution, war, famine, atheism, and persecution had plagued Europe during the eighteenth century, and
the Jansenist heresy had touched and withered the spiritual vigor of Catholics. Men cameo believe in their
own abilities and the right of any man to think as they did.
In these fierce days of persecution, the primitive Christians were obliged to perform the sacred rites of their
holy religion in the subterranean caverns (cryptœ) which extend on every side of the Eternal City, but clustered
most thickly at the south-east corner, near the Appain Way and the Ardeatine Way. These caverns, long-believed
to have been originally mere sand-pits, arenaria, out of which sand was dug for building purposes, are now
proved beyond all doubt to have been constructed at great expense by noble and wealthy Christian families as
places of burial. During three consecutive centuries, the Catacombs, as they are called, were places where the
faithful had their temples and altars; where they met to pray in common and where the Pontiffs celebrated
“The Gathering,” or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. They were in constant use also up to the cessation of
persecution, and even to 410 A.D as the last resting-place of the Saints and martyrs. In the terrible irruptions of
the Goths and Lombards, many of these cemeteries, especially of the Via Salaria, were sacrilegiously plundered
of their sacred treasures, and in part destroyed. When happier times ensued - at the commencement of the
eighth century and culminating with Pope St. Paschal - all the relics of the Popes and principal martyrs and
confessors which had hitherto lain in the Catacombs were removed for greater safety to the churches of Rome.
As time passed, the Catacombs were abandoned and in great part closed, and the knowledge of them was
lost altogether, until they were accidentally re-discovered by some laborer in the year 1578. Even then they seem
to have been left unguarded, and permission was given to the faithful to take away whatever relics they chose.

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Painting of Saint Philomena commissioned by Saint John Vianney and is housed in the Shrine of
Ars, France. Vianney reported that this is the exact likeness of Saint Philomena, who said that
she appeared to him.
By a special providence of God, the sacred tomb of St. Philomena was left unnoticed and undisturbed until it
pleased Him in these later days to reveal Her glory to the entire world.
However, the story begins quite plainly, though and perhaps sadly. On May 24, 1802, workers had just returned
to the excavations begun earlier in a tufa pit in an underground cemetery dedicated to the family of Priscilla
(the ancient Catacomb of Saint Priscilla), underneath the soil on the road that goes out of the Porta Salaria
from Rome to Ancona.
Laboring in the darkness, a fossor reached the center of the Catacomb not far from the Greek Chapel, and very
close to the largest luminaries where he was clearing loose sand which had fallen from one of the galleries on
the upper level from a loculus when his pick struck a cemented surface.
Upon closer examination the concrete surface appeared to be some tiles which would normally enclose a loculus
and, as previously instructed by Msgr. Ponzetti, Custodian of the Holy Relics, he immediately ceased the excavation.
May 25, 1802 - The Tomb Is Revealed

Fr. Filippo Ludovici, Vatican overseer of the excavation was informed, and on the following day, May 25, 1802,
Fr. Ludovici, accompanied by several observers, descended into the Catacomb, and witnessed the full uncovering
of the loculus, whereby with the removal of sand, three brick funeral tiles (the tiles were given to the Sanctuary

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on August 14, 1827 by Pope Leo XII) were revealed which bore an epitaph painted in lead. Each tile
measured approximately 50 centimeters long and had a total length of 1.74 centimeters (5 feet 9 inches).

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The painted inscription on the three funeral tiles appeared as follows: tile one - LUMENA; tile two - PAXTE; tile three
- CUM FI. The loculus was documented by Msgr. Ponzetti, Custodian of the Holy Relics, as bearing “FILUMENA,”
an interpretation of the epitaph consistent with both the ancient custom of beginning inscriptions from the second
tile and the logical etymological context. The result is a full reading of the epitaph as “PAX TECUM FILUMENA.”
This funereal inscription presents the distinctive characteristics of apostolic times, rarely found in other
cemeteries more recent than the Priscilla.
The name of “Filumena” is officially granted to the sacred remains examined on May 25, 1802, as recorded in
the document issued by Ponzetti as Custodian of the Sacred Relics which released the remains of this
Christian martyr to the Diocese of Nola on June 8, 1805:
8 Iunii 1805
Dono dedi Ven. Ecclesiae Archipresbyterali terrae Mugnano Dioecesis Nolanae corpus Sanctae Christi Martyris
FILUMENAE
Nominis proprii sic picti in tribus Tabulis laterariis cinabro
LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI
in pulverem et in fragminaactum per me infrascriptum Custodem extractum cum vasculo vitreo fracto ex
Coemeterio Priscillae Via Salaria Nova die 25 maii 1802, quod collocavi in capsula lignea charta colorata cooperta
et consignavi Illmo Dominico Caesari pro Illmo et Rmo D. Bartholomaeo de Caesare Epo Potentino.
HYACINTHUS PONZETTI, Custos.
Symbols of Martyrdom
In addition to the inscription, so eloquent in its simplicity, the sepulchral tiles exhibited certain symbols,
including tokens of martyrdom. There were an anchor and arrow pointing upwards, a palm, and under the
palm another anchor, a javelin pointing upwards, another arrow pointing downwards, and a lily.
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Students of Christian symbols generally agree on the interpretation of these figures on the tiles. The
emblems breathe the language of faith and hope.
In the anchor there is a resemblance to the cross, the sign of faith in Christ. In both Greek and Roman antiquity
there is mention of the sacred anchor. The anchor also connotes hope, refuge, and preservation of life. In the
legend of the martyred Philomena there is a passage about the Roman emperor’s wrath when an anchor he
had fastened to the girl’s neck wedged in the mud of the Tiber River. Other Saints, including Pope Clement,
suffered martyrdom by having an anchor tied to the neck and being dropped into the sea. Emperor Trajan as well
as Tberius decreed this form of brutality.
The two arrows pointing in opposite directions signify torment similar to that which Tiberius exercised on
St. Sebastian.
On the removal of the tiles in the cavity, were disclosed the remains of an interment, which competent
authority pronounced to be those of a young girl from thirteen to fifteen years of age. The head was small and
very much fractured, but the principal bones were entire. Surgeons ascertained the type of wounds
inflicted. Physicians examined the skeleton - its small unbroken bones, fractured skull, and eye sockets. The
maiden had been lanced.
At the end of the loculus was a small glass vial or vase with half-broken sides of which were encrusted within with
a dust of blackish color indicating blood clinging to glass fragments, and with the lower portion of the vial still
intact and firmly embedded in the cement . It was undoubtedly blood which had been collected at the death of
the martyr, according to the custom of Christians during the persecutions, and placed with the remains as
a testimonial to her death by martyrdom. As early as 1668, the Congregation of Indulgences and Relics had
decided that the genuineness of a true relic of a martyr hinged somewhat on the finding of the vial or vase filled
with the martyr’s blood. The same congregation renewed the decision in 1863.

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This blood was loosened from the broken pieces of the vial to which it adhered, and was carefully placed in a
crystal urn. Those present, among whom were men of great learning of the Court of Inquiry, were startled by
a strange chemical reaction. As soon as these little particles of blood fell into the sun, they glittered like
burnished gold or silver, or shone like diamonds and precious jewels, or, again, were resplendent in all colors of
the rainbow. The chemical change of the blood convinced the Church dignitaries that a new star had arisen
among the Blessed. Cardinal Ruffo Scilla renewed the seals on the new reliquary after the blood of the Saint had
been safeguarded in the crystal vial, and deposed in the authentication: “And we have seen her blood change
into several brilliant little precious stones of various colors; also into gold and silver.”
This extraordinary phenomenon continues to the present day. The precious remains were reverently placed in
a wooden case, lined with silk and stuffed with fine cotton and transferred to the Custodia Generale, or treasury
of Sacred Relics, where they remained there for three years.
August 10, 1805 - Transfer Of the Relics from Rome to the Sanctuary of St.
Philomena, Mugnano del Cardinale, Av., Italy
The remains of Filumena departed from Rome on July 1, 1805 and arrived at Mugnano on August 10, 1805
where they have remained since the transferal.
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French Army which invaded and conquered Italy, was now Emperor of the French.
That summer, the Bishop-elect of Petenza went to Rome to be consecrated, and also to congratulate Pope Pius VII
on his return from France, on behalf of the King of Naples, the Spanish Don Carlos. He took with him as his
chaplain, a holy missionary priest, Don Francesco de Lucia , who was serving the parish of Mugnano north of
Naples. Don Francesco, a cultured and pious priest, was born in Mugnano del Cardinale on September 19, 1772.
He completed his studies in the Congregation of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Lucera. Ordained a priest
on September 19, 1796, he opened a school of philosophy and literature in Naples. He quickly gained the esteem
and affection of distinguished Neapolitan people in education circles. Amongst these was the Venerable Jesuit
Servant of God, Guiseppe Maria Pignatelli.
Don
Francesco had a heavy heart. His parish was infested with impurities of revolutionary ideas, resentment against
the authority of the Church, unbelief, and immorality. His secret hope was to get the Bishop to use his authority
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knew exactly what he wanted - a virgin martyr whose name was known.
The Guardian of the Custodia Generale, which Don Francesco soon got permission to visit, was evidently taken by
this devout and humble priest, and said he would help him acquire what he desired, and told him to choose
among the relics in the Custodia. In mid-May, Don Francesco was taken to the Treasure House of Relics, which
was under the care of a worthy guardian, Monsignor Don Giacinto Ponzetti. There were those of thirteen martyrs,
but only the names of three were known - one was a child, one an adult and then there was ‘Filumena.’ He
had wanted a virgin martyr from the start, but what was more, when he stood before the case containing
Filumena’s relics, he felt alive with spiritual joy, and it was as though She instantly took away the heaviness of
his heart. This was undoubtedly the helper he wanted! The Guardian promised to arrange for this. Imagine
his disappointment, then, when the official reply came that bodies of martyrs whose names were known were so
few, that such as were found must be kept for special churches or dioceses.
His sadness doubled. Rome is not the best place in which to spend the summer - or at least it was not in those
days, when the marshes of the Campagna had not been drained. As a result of the intense heat, and his
considerable worry and disappointment, Don Francesco’s health began to decline. A friend offered him the relics of
an unnamed martyr to comfort him, but he would not accept it. He was convinced that only Filumena could help
him convert his parish. One night when he was burning with fever, he promised that if Filumena would grant
him sleep, he would do everything possible to take her as his patron to Mugnano. Miraculously, his fever was
gone and he fell asleep awakening in perfect health.
This confirmed to him that Filumena wanted to come with him to Mugnano just as much as he did. This time he
went to the newly consecrated Bishop, and asked him to use his influence. When the Bishop heard the story,
he agreed that the Saint appeared to want to go to Mugnano, and added his request to Don Francesco’s.
The Guardian gladly acted on this permission to entrust the relics to Don Francesco and felt certain that
Filumena would perform miracles in Mugnano.
Delighted, the good Bishop and Don Francesco took possession of the precious casket, and proceeded to
bring Filumena to Naples. With many prayers and every honor, the casket was placed in the front of the
Episcopal carriage.
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The cortege was due in the little town on Sunday, August 10, and on the vigil, bells were joyfully rung to
announce the event. At dawn, a messenger was sent by Don Francesco to proclaim that the sacred body was
coming. Soon an unusual excitement reigned, and crowds were seen proceeding from all directions to meet
and welcome Her. The day was to be noted as a memorable one in the archives of Mugnano. More than forty
priests in their richest vestments, the members of the various confraternities and representatives from
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and exquisite flowers. When the body came into sight, all the bells were heard “sprinkling air with holy sounds,”
and heavenly music, sounds of bomb and gun fire, and groups of young men and young girls united in
song welcomed Her in the most honorable way.
After entering the town the cortege took fully two hours to reach the church of the Madonna del grazie. Upon
arrival of the sacred body, it was deposited under a triumphal dias near the Gospel side of the high altar, and
Solemn High Mass was sung.
Don Francesco de Lucia , to give a solid and profound base to the devotion to the Saint, founded the Association
of the Children of St. Philomena. He was the first rector of the sanctuary and most vigilant guardian of the
holy remains of the Saint. He dedicated his priestly life for the glory of God and for souls. After 41 years of
untiring apostolate in the propagation of devotion to Saint Filumena in all the Kingdom of the Two Sicilys,
acquiring the regard of cardinals and bishops, he rendered his great soul to God on April 9, 1847.
January 30, 1837 - Pope Gregory XVI Confirmed the Feast of St. Philomena Established
as August 11
For
thirty years miracles continued to increase in number at Mugnano, and the glory of the

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“Thaumaturga” (Wonder-worker) filled the Universe. Various appeals were addressed to the Holy See so that
a feast day might be established, and an Office and Mass permitted in her honor.
In 1835, Pauline Jaricot, Foundress of the great French lay social institution in aid of the missions, Propagation of
the Faith, and also foundress of the Association of the Living Rosary, and of other good works, was close to
death. She suffered from a heart disease which had affected her health for some years and had left her
suffering from frequent heart attacks. She had been unable to walk for the previous year and a quarter. The
slow deterioration was leading to death. Doctors had given up on her case and deemed it hopeless.
Drawn by an irresistible attraction, she wanted to visit Rome and the Holy Father. When she arrived at Rome after
a terrible journey, her state was such that she could not go to the Vatican, and it was the Holy Father who went
to visit her in the convent of Trinita dei Monti. The young lady asked Pope Gregory XVI if he would approve the cult
of Saint Filumena, if she was cured by the Saint.
“Surely, my child,” replied the august Pontiff, “for that would indeed be a first class miracle.” This miracle
indeed took place at the Sanctuary of Saint Filumena. On her return to Rome, the Sovereign Pontiff wanted
Miss Jaricot to stay a full year there until all doubts about the completeness of the cure were quashed. Then, in
a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, confirmed by the Pope on January 30, 1837, the feast of St.
Philomena was established as the eleventh of August.
A recount of the miracle:
Toward the evening of Saturday, August 9, 1835, vigil of the feast of the Translation of Saint Filumena, during
the Solemn Vespers, a French lady was seen to arrive accompanied by her chaplain, a maid and a servant. These
last two, with much trouble, lowered their mistress from the coach onto a chair, and carried her through the crowd
to the foot of the altar of the Reliquary where she remained in prayer until the end of the function.
After 15 months of suffering, the lady was pallid, wasted and weak. Being in the final stages of heart disease,
she resembled more a corpse than a live person.
The next day, on August 10, she was taken to the Sanctuary a number of times to participate in various Masses
and to receive Holy Communion. She attended the Evening Office as she had on Monday. Her sad state was
observed by a number of doctors from Naples who had come for the feast day celebrations.
Up until that evening, she gave no sign of improvement though she later revealed that she had felt herself
healed soon after Communion, but was afraid to announce it because of the commotion the people would
make. However, after the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, when the people had left, she rose and walked
back to her lodging without help. She had truly been cured. When they quickly found out, the enthusiasm of
the public was indescribable. At the second hour of the night, 9:30 p.m., the church bells pealed, and the shouts
of joy of the crowds replied. Miss Jaricot had to show herself to satisfy the wishes of the people.

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Out of gratitude she took the haven of the daughters of Saint Filumena: The Little Sisters of St. Philomena,
and added to her name those of Philomena-Maria. The same gratitude brought her back to Mungano in 1839 for
a four-day visit. After cruel trials, borne with the resignation and serenity of the Saints, she entered into the sleep
of the just on January 9, 1862. Her body rests in the Church of Saint Polycarp awaiting the honor of being raised
to the altars. The process of her beatification has been under way for a number of years.
On January 30, 1837, Pope Gregory XVI issued a solemn pontifical decree confirming the rescript of the
Congregation of Rites authorizing St. Philomena’s public cultus and approving the office, Mass of the Common of
a virgin and martyr with a proper fourth lesson at Matins in honor of St. Philomena, virgin and martyr on August
11. This papal approval of public liturgical devotion was first granted to the clergy of the Diocese of Nola, and
later extended to other dioceses, including Rome itself. The fourth lesson officially inserted into the Breviary
in liturgical honor of St. Philomena on August 11 acknowledges the finding of her remains in the Priscilla
catacombs, her martyrdom status, the rapid spread of her extensive popular devotion amidst the faithful due to
her miraculous intercession, and the permission of the Pope to celebrate liturgically the office and mass in her
honor (as here presented):
DIE XI AUGUSTI
IN FESTO S. PHILUMENAE
Virginis et Martyris
In II NOCTURNO - LECTIO IV
Inter cetera martyrum sepulcra, quae in coemeterio Priscillae ad viam Salariam reperiri solent, illud exstitit
quo repositum fuerat sanctae Philumenae corpus, uti ex tumuli inscriptione, tribus laterculis apposita,
perlegebatur. Licet vero inventa fuerit phiala sanguinis, et alia descripta conspicerentur martyrii insignia,
dolendum tamen est res ab eadem gestas actaque ac genus martyrii quod ipsa fecit obscura perstitisse. Ceterum
ubi primum sacrum hoc corpus, ex beneficentia Pii septimi initio pontificatus ejus acceptum, cultui fidelis
populi propositum fuit Mugnani in Nolana dioecesi, ingens illico famae celebritas ac religio erga
sanctam martyrem percrebuit, praesertim ob signa quae ejusdem praesidio accessisse undique ferebatur.
Hinc factum est ut complurium antistitum cultorumque martyris postulationibus permotus Gregorius decimus
sextus pontifex maximus, universa rei ratione mature perpensa, festum ejusdem cum Officio et Missa in
memorata Nolana dioecesi et alibi agendum benigne permiserit.
C.M Episcop. Praenest. Card. PEDICINIUS;
S. R. E. Vice- C. S.R.C. Praef.;
V. PESCETELLI S. Fidei Promotor.
In summary, Pope Gregory XVI in a papal decree, granted official approbation of the liturgical cultus and,
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aware of the absence of any historical account of the martyr Saint “Filumena,” granted to her the privileges of
public liturgical veneration based upon the foundation of the great quantity of miracles ecclesiastically
documented and recognized as having occurred through her direct intercession.
The official positive decree of Pope Gregory XVI in papal recognition of St. Philomena’s status as deserving
of liturgical cult reinforces the deeper truth that far more important than the historical account of Philomena’s
earthly life is the historical and documented account of her powerful intercession for the Church as sanctioned by
God himself. Whoever this early Christian martyr is and whatever constitutes the particular circumstances of her
life and death, God is pleased with prayers of petition offered in the name of “St. Philomena,” to which He
has responded generously to the Christian faithful in granting an abundance of heavenly favors.
he historical abundance of miracles attests to God’s desire to encourage devotion to the person behind the name
of Filumena, regardless of the absence of a recorded history of her earthly life. This primacy of importance of
her actual intercession for the people of God in our own times, over the details of her earthly life in ancient times,
is what the Pope and the Church confirmed in the raising of St. Philomena to the level of public liturgical
veneration, the beginning of the process of her public recognition as Saint and martyr.
Magisterial Decrees Pertaining To Devotion to St. Philomena
From the liturgical approval of PopeGregory XVI to the papal decrees of St. Pius X, Nineteen acts of the Holy See
in the course of five successive pontificates were issued in positive promotion of popular devotion to St.
Philomena expressed in the form of elevations in rank of liturgical cultus, the erection of confraternities
and archconfraternities, and the granting of plenary and partial indulgences.
Several acts of the Holy See particularly display the Magisterium’s approval and encouragement of ecclesial
devotion to this Christian Saint and martyr. Beyond the elevation of the rank of the mass and office
previously granted by Pope Gregory XVI, Bl. Pius IX approved a proper mass and office dedicated to St.
Philomena with the papal confirmation of the previously submitted decree, Etsi decimo on January 31, 1855,
a significant liturgical elevation, even though her name was never entered into the Roman Martyrology. The
granting of a proper mass and office to St. Philomena, which took place following the return of Bl. Pius IX from
a papal pilgrimage to Mugnano during his forced exile from Rome, was an unprecedented act in honor of a
Christian martyr known only by name and evidence of martyrdom. Bl. Pius IX also granted plenary and
partial indulgences to devotions in honor of St. Philomena at the Sanctuary in Mugnano.
Pope Leo XIII granted papal approbation to the Cord of St. Philomena with several plenary indulgences in
association with its wearing, and accorded the title and privilege of “archconfraternity” for the respective
Philomenian devotion and work in France. Pope St. Pius X continued the papal succession of encouragement for
public Church devotion by approving the extension of the Archconfraternity of St. Philomena to the universal Church.
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the nature and growth of ecclesial devotion to St. Philomena, in official recognition of her status as a Saint, in
public liturgical and devotional sanctions which extended to the universal faith and life of the Church, and
thereby manifesting official and essential liturgical and devotional characteristics of her status as a Saint as
defined by the Church.
Hagiographical Testimony
St. John Vianney, beyond any other Saint or Blessed, manifested an expansive testimony of faith and
documented witness toward the reality of St. Philomena and her profound intercessory efficacy. The Curé,
as recorded in the canonization process, attributed all the miracles documented at Ars to have been affected
through St. Philomena’s intercession; repeatedly spoke of having received apparitions of St. Philomena; and
directly attributed his own personal miraculous cure from grave illness to her intercession.
The testimony and cure of Ven. Pauline Jaricot through the intercession of the young martyr Saint has been
noted. St. Peter Julian Eymard was cured from serious illness after having been instructed by St. John Vianney
to pray a novena to St. Philomena. St. Peter Channel, the first Oceanian martyr, preached of St. Philomena
and referred to her as his “auxiliary” in his missionary apostolate.

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Blessed
Joseph Damien de Veuster of Molokai dedicated his first chapel in Molokai to the young Saint. St. Madeleine
Sophie Barat consistently invoked Philomena during difficulties in the establishment of her societies, and
attributed the miraculous cure of a dying novice to her intercession.
Bl. Anna Maria Taigi, as related in her beatification proceedings, applied oil burned before the tomb of St.
Philomena to the eye of her grandchild who had been medically diagnosed with an incurable pupil tear of the eye,
and the eye was immediately healed. Other Saints and Blesseds who manifested veneration to St. Philomena
include St. Magdalene of Canossa, Bl. Bartolo Longo, Bl. Annibale Da Messina, and Bl. Pius IX, who, shortly before
his death, sent to Mugnano the chalice presented to him by the Belgian Federation of Catholic Circles on his
golden Episcopal anniversary as one of several papal votive gifts sent in honor of and gratitude to St. Philomena.
The wisdom inherent in sanctity as personified in the lives of the aforementioned Saints and Blesseds provides
a substantial confirmation of the decrees of the ordinary Magisterium which granted public ecclesiastical devotion
to the martyr Saint. Worthy of particular mention is the significant number of Saints and Blesseds who
immediately participated in veneration of Philomena within the same half century of the discovery of her
sacred remains, some before any certain statement concerning her public veneration was issued by Rome.
Note also the predominant importance of the supernatural intervention of miracles in the Church process
of canonization. Without the documented miracles, an individual cause does not typically advance past the status
of “Servant of God,” even with extensive historical evidence of an earthly life of heroic virtue. The Church places
its greatest emphasis for canonization, along with an essential historical basis, upon God’s witness to the sanctity
of the candidate through the manifestation of miraculous intercession by the person. It was therefore
most appropriate for Pope Gregory XVI to give far greater importance to the miracles documented to the
intercession of Philomena, rather than to the history of her earthly existence beyond the Church approved criteria
of historically establishing her martyrdom. The present inquiry into the case of St. Philomena should follow the
same criteria as those followed by Popes Gregory XVI, Bl. Pius IX, Leo XIII and St. Pius X.
Papal Approbation of the devotion to Saint Philomena
This solemn approbation of the Church was not bestowed upon the devotion to St. Philomena until after many
and frequent supplications to that effort had been sent to Rome from both faithful and bishops; in fact, from
almost the entire episcopate of Italy. The Pope treated this affair with the maturity and prudent circumspection
which presides over all the decisions of Rome; because it was an important matter, requiring being carefully
and deliberately weighed, on account of its novelty in the Church, and the marvelous circumstances accompany it.
Accordingly he desired that this matter, namely, the promulgation of a decree authorizing the publics worship of
St. Philomena, should be debated by the Congregation of Rites, and moreover, after that august assembly had
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a definite judgment on the subject when he had prayed much, had seen with his own eyes the extraordinary
cure worked by the Saint o Pauline Marie Jaricot and had heard authentic reports of the many prodigies of the Saint.
The Decree authorizing the devotion and granting leave to the clergy of the diocese of Nola to say in honor of
St. Philomena the Office and Mass of the Common of a Virgin Martyr with the prayer Deus qui inter caetera, and
a proper fourth lection, was published to the world on the thirtieth of January, 1837. This lection, which had
been revised and corrected by Cardinal Pedicini, Prefect of the Congregation of Rites, and P. Pascetelli, Promoter
of the faith, was officially introduced into the Roman Breviary in the Supplement, Pro aliquibus locis. It forms
the whole of the first and a portion of the second of the three lections afterwards granted in honor of the Saint.
Shortly after this, many other bishops obtained for their own dioceses the same favor that had been granted to
that of Nola, and, moreover, the feast of St. Philomena was inserted in the calendar of the Roman clergy, and
her office place din the Proper Pro clero uris, for August 19th.
In March, 1839, the same Pontiff, Gregory XVI, by a decree of the Congregation of Rites, gave leave to the clergy
of Mugnano to keep her feast as a greater double; and in like manner on January 1, 1841, he raised it to a double
of the second class.
A later set of the Holy See has consecrated in a still more solemn manner the public worship of St.
Philomena; namely, the Decree Elsi decimosexto issued by the Sacred Congregation of Rites, and approved by
the Sovereign Pontiff Pius IX., on the 11th of January 1854; granting leave to the clergy of Mugnano to celebrate
the feast of the Saint with a proper Office and Mass, which was also approved by the Sovereign Pontiff.
It should be noted that this is the only instance of a proper Office being granted in honor of a Saint from
the Catacombs, of whom nothing was known except her name and the fact of her martyrdom. The three
Lections granted for the Office will be found at the end of this Chapter.
With regard to the private acts of the Sovereign Pontiff; Leo XII., after reading the account of her written by
Don Francesco di Lucia, was filled with admiration for his holy martyr: he blessed God for the power He had
bestowed upon her, and authorized the creation of chapels in her honor. He gave his blessing to the holy women
who devote themselves to good works under the invocation of this Saint and are known as the Monacelle, or
Little Sisters of St. Philomena. Seeing the strict rule under which they lived, their uniformity of habit, &c.,
he imagined that they must live in the seclusion of monasteries; but when he heard how great was their number,
and that they led this holy life in the bosom of their own families, and spread abroad their salutary example
wherever they went, in church, in the streets, or in the fields, he was delighted, and said these words
spontaneously: - This miracle is greater then any other miracle worked by the Saint. What! In an age of
universal corruption, in a kingdom so lately subjected to so many vicissitudes of religion, these pure souls
have arisen to thread publicly underfoot the world and the flesh! I now bless them all!” And raising his right
hand making the sign of the cross, he repeated, “May they all be blessed!” The order of the Little Sisters of

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St. Philomena was founded by Don Francesco in honor of St. Philomena – and for the consolation of the many
should who longed to dedicate their lives to the service of God by imitating the purity of their beloved Saint.
Gregory XVI never called St. Philomena anything by, “The great Saint,” or, “The Thaumaturga of the
nineteenth century.” He blessed a picture of her to be exposed to public veneration at the Caravita in Rome,
where she had a chapel. He also named her patron of the Living Rosary. When Mgr. afterwards Cardinal, Feretti
paid his second visit to Mugnano, he was the bearer of a large silver and gold lamp presented to the Saint by
Pope Gregory XVI.
Pope Pious IX., who credits Saint Philomena of his miraculous cure while Archbishop of Imola, himself introduced
the devotion to the Saint into his Cathedral city; he assisted at the triduo held on the occasion, celebrated Mass
and preached on the last day of it.
During his exile from Rome after he was Pope, he made a pilgrimage in person to the shrine of St. Philomena.
The Holy Father arrived at the railway station of Nola at nine in the morning of the seventh of November,
1849, accompanied by his usual suite, and also by Cardinal Antonelli, and the Apostolic Nuncio at the Court of
Naples, Mgr Garibaldi, Archbishop of Myra in partibus. He was received with all due formality by the authorities
and he walked to his carriage between two files of young men belonging to the Congregation of St. Aloysius,
who with olive branches and lighted candles in their hands, changed Hosanna to the Representative of the Son
of David. All the streets of the town were thus lined by two rows of the laity distributed in the various
confraternities of the town and the vicinity, who had hastened to do honor to the Holy Father and to receive
his blessing.
Although he had given no certain notice of his intention and nothing was known about his visit save an
uncertain rumor that had reached them two days before all the villages through which he passed during the six
miles drive to Mugnano vied with one another to welcome him and show him honor. Triumphant arches were
erected with appropriate inscriptions, bands of music were stationed beneath them, flowers and myrtles were
strewn along his road, the clergy in their sacred vestments, with the confraternities and their banners, came forth
to meet him, the young men with green boughs in their hands shouted Evviva! And all decked their houses as
best they could; the rich by adorning them with splendid hangings, the poor by showing what they deemed their
best pieces of furniture.
Thus amid the tears of joy of the devout populace, the Holy Father arrived at the foot of the steps leading to
the church of St. Philomena at Mugnano. Here he was received by the Bishop of Nola, who had come thither to
meet him, and by the King of Naples, who knelt on the bare ground to assist him to alight, and who, when the
Holy Father offered him his hand, begged for and obtained leave to kiss his gout. The Queen with her seven
children, the princes and princesses of the Royal gamily, were kneeling on the steps leading up to the Church,
to implore the benediction of the Holy Father.

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The Sovereign Pontiff entered the church to the tones of the Ecce Sacedos Magnus, sung by the orphans educated
by the Sisters of Charity in their convent adjoining the sanctuary. The Holy Father then celebrated the Holy
Sacrifice at the altar where the relics of the Virgin Martyr are preserved, and afterwards heard another Mass said
by his chaplain, according to his custom. He then received into his hands from the Bishop of Nola the
reliquary containing the blood of St. Philomena, singed his own august forehead with it, and held it for the King
and Queen and the princes who were present to kiss.
A throne had been prepared for him in the schoolroom of the Sisters, and the Holy Father repaired thither
preceded by the clergy and accompanied by the Royal Family and his suite. Here he deigned to admit to the
kissing of his feet the Rector of the sanctuary, the clergy of the parish the Fathers of the Congregation of St.
Peter from Cesarano, the Sisters of Charity, the municipal authorities, and the gentlemen of the neighborhood.
He then partook of some refreshment, and after imparting his blessing from a balcony to the immense crowds
who filled the square, the front of church, the neighboring windows, and even the roofs of the houses, he returned
to Naples.
In memory of the event he granted permission to the Rector of the Sanctuary to wear the dress of prelates, and
to officiate in Pontifical. He also granted many indulgences to those who visit the shrine of ST. Philomena,
and various other privileges.
This Papal pilgrimage contributed not a lintel to augment and propagate the devotion to St. Philomena.
During his sojourn at Naples, Pope Pius IX. Appointed St. Philomena one of the secondary patrons of the
kingdom; and in 182, he named her patron of the Enfants de Marie, and confirmed her title of protector of the
Living Rosary.
Leo XIII., also, whilst Apostolic Administrator of the diocese of Benevento, made two pilgrimages to Mugnano;
and after he became Pope, he sent a valuable cross from the Vatican Supposition to the Rector of the church
where the Saint lies. He also enriched the various Confraternities of St. Philomena with numerous Indulgences.
A solemn feast is kept in Rome in honor of St. Philomena on the second Sunday in August, in the church of
Santa Maria della Vittoria, and at the Filippine on the 19th of the same month. She is venerated also in various
other churches in Rome.
The following are translations of the proper Lections granted for the Office of St. Philomena:
I - Among the different sepulchers of Martyrs which were accustomed to be discovered in the cemetery of Pricilla,
on the Via Salaria, there appeared that one wherein the body of St. Philomena had been laid; as was stated in
the inscription of the tomb, place upon three tiles. Yet, although a phial of blood was found there, and other tokens
of martyrdom were to be seen inscribed thereupon it is nevertheless to be regretted that her life, her acts and,
the kind of martyrdom which she suffered have remained in obscurity.

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II - As soon as the sacred body, which was obtained from the munificence of Pius VII., at the commencement of
his Pontificate, was exposed to the veneration of the faithful at Mugnano, in the diocese of Nola, an immense
celerity of renown and devotion towards this holy Martyr was spread abroad in those parts; especially on the
account of the miracles which were said on all sides to have been worked through her patronage. Hence, not
only holy prelates and distinguished ecclesia.
Listen to the Story
Part I
This WaysideAudio file relates the events leading to the discovery of the remains of the child martyr Philomena in
the catacombs of Rome. A vile of dried blood is discovered which to the amazement of all present, transforms
its appearance to that of sparkling diamonds. So begins a series of events.
Part II
The relics of the child martyr, now clothed in fine silks and honored in the parish church of Mugnano, become
the centre of many miracles. One miracle bears special significance however, that of the cure of the now
venerable, Pauline Jaricot.
Part III
Following the prayers of a holy nun, Saint Philomena reveals the details of her martyrdom. Her imprisonment
and torture at the hands of the Emperor Diocletian, and of her final demise.
Part IV
The fourteen Holy Helpers lead us to the children of Fatima and on to the present day. We hear from Father
Luke, Spiritual adviser to the living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena. We hear some of the testimonies of
those who's lives have been touched by the child martyr, Saint Philomena.
Song by Michael John Poirier

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Peace Be To You Philomena
Peace be to you
Peace be to you
Peace be to you... Philomena
You did not die in vain, no the beauty of your sacrifice
shines brighter in this world with every passing day
Philomena pray for us
You made the Father smile by your willingness to lay aside
a life of wealth and ease to live eternally
Peace be to you
Peace be to you
In a world that's lost its vision for truth and purity
where the lowly and the humble are still trampled underneath
its just like the Father to raise up those bowed down
until all the lost are found.
And as the world learns your name
it will never be the same.
Peace be to you
Peace be to you

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Prayers for Saint Philomena

The Rosary in Honor of Saint Philomena
The rosary also known as the chaplet or Little Crown of Saint Philomena is made
up of red beads to signify her martyrdom and white beads; a token of her
virginity and purity.
This Rosary is one of the simplest ways of praying to the Saint. First the creed is
recited on the Crucifix or medal of St Philomena to ask for the gift of faith. Three
Our Fathers on each of the white beads to thank the Blessed Trinity for the gifts
given to the Holy Virgin, for in whose honor, laid down her life. The red beads are
thirteen in number and signify the 13 years our martyr lived on earth and this
prayer is recited on each bead:
Hail, O Holy Saint Philomena, my dear patroness. As my advocate with thy Divine
Spouse, intercede for me now and at the hour of my death.

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Saint Philomena, beloved daughter of Jesus and of Mary, pray for us who have
recourse to thee. Amen.
(This prayer may be substituted for 13 Hail Mary’s each followed by : Saint
Philomena, pray for us.)
At the end say:
Hail, O Illustrious Saint Philomena, who so courageously shed thy blood for
Christ, I bless the Lord for all the graces He has bestowed upon thee, during thy
life, especially at thy death, I praise and glorify Him for the honor and power with
which He has crowned thee, and I beg thee to obtain for me from God the graces
I ask through thy intercession. Amen.
This prayer may be substituted for 13 Hail Mary’s each followed by: Saint
Philomena, pray for us.
Listen to the Chaplet of Saint Philomena
Performed by Kurt & Juli Carrick
Litany to Saint Philomena
(please click here to download and print the Litany)
Composed by St. John Vianney
Lord,have mercy on us.
Lord,have mercy on us.
Lord,have mercy on us. Christ hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of Heaven,
have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
have mercy on us.

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God the Holy Spirit,
have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God.
have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, Queen of Virgins
pray for us.
Saint Philomena,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, filled with abundant graces from your birth,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, faithful imitator of Mary,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, model of virginity,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, temple of perfect humility,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, inflamed with zeal for the glory of God,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, victim of love for Jesus,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, example of strength and perseverance,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, invincible champion of chastity,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, mirror of most heroic virtue,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, firm and intrepid in the face of torments,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, scourged like your Divine Spouse,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, pierced by a rain of arrows,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, consoled in chains by the Mother of God,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, miraculously healed in prison,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, comforted by the Angels in your torments,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, who preferred torments

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pray for us.
Saint Philomena, who converted witnesses by your martyrdom,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, who wore out the fury of your tormentors,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, protectress of the innocent,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, patroness of youth,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, refuge of the unfortunate,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, health of the sick and infirmed,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, new light of the Church Militant,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, who confounds the impiety of the world,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, who rejuvenates the faith and courage of the faithful,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, whose name is glorious in Heaven and feared in Hell,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, made illustrious by the most splendid miracles,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, powerful with God,
pray for us.
Saint Philomena, who reigns in glory,
pray for us.
Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world;
spare us, O Lord.
graciously hear us, O Lord.
have mercy on us.
V. Pray for us, O Worker of Wonders, Saint Philomena,
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray.
O Lord, through the intercession of Saint Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, whose
eminent purity and practice of every virtue was most pleasing to you, pardon our
sins and grant us the grace of_______________

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(add your special intention), through the same Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
Composed by St. John Vianney
Novena Prayer to Saint Philomena
(please click here to download and print the Novena)
(Composed by St. John Vianney , Cure d’ Ars)
Listen to the Novena of Saint Philomena
Performed by Kurt & Juli Carrick
The Solemn Novenas are from 17th to 25th May, 3rd to 11th August, 7th to 15th
December. The Monthly Novena begins on 3rd and ends on 11th of each month.
Prayer for Each Day during the Novena.
O Glorious Virgin and Martyr, beloved of God, Saint Philomena! I rejoice with
thee in the power which God gave thee for the glory of His Name, for the
edification His Church, and to reward the merits of thy life and death. I rejoice to
see thee so great, so pure, so generous, so faithful to Jesus Christ, and to His
Gospel, and so splendidly rewarded in Heaven, and on earth. Attracted by thy
example to the practice of solid virtue full of hope at the sight of thy
recompense granted to thy merits. I resolve to follow thee in avoiding all evil
and in fully obeying what God commands. Help me, O great Saint by thy
powerful intercession. Obtain for me particularly, a purity inviolable forever, a
strength of soul always invincible in every kind of assault, a generosity which
denies no sacrifice to God, and a love as strong as death for the Faith of Jesus
Christ, for the Holy Roman Church and for Our Holy Father, the Father of all the
Faithful, the Shepherd of shepherds and of their flocks, the Vicar of Jesus Christ
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With all the fervor of my soul, I implore these graces from thee, and, in addition,
I ask these other benefits from thee with equal confidence in obtaining them
through thy powerful intercession. (Here tell Saint Philomena what you need,
with simplicity, confidence and humility).
Surely that God so good for Whom thou didst give thy blood and thy life that God
so good Who is so generous to thee and through thy mediation, so generous with
gifts and favors to us, that God so good Who has loved me even unto dying for
me, even unto giving me Himself under the Eucharistic appearances, surely He
will never be deaf to thy prayers, nor to my appeals, unless it be that He Himself
is in some different way seeking to do me good. Full of confidence, I place all my
trust in Him and in thee. Amen
FIRST DAY
1. Consider that Saint Philomena was a virgin… A virgin in such a world and in
such an age… A virgin in spite of persecution… A virgin until death… What an
example! Can I meditate upon it without blushing? What is the cause of my
confusion? What is the remedy for it?
2. Humiliate yourself many times for the reason that has made you blush,
remembering her virginal purity.
3. Assist at Holy Mass in her honor and visit one of her statues or pictures, if you
can do so conveniently.
SECOND DAY
1. Consider that Saint Philomena was and did not cease to be a virgin… Because
she knew how to control the corrupt desires of the flesh… How to preserve, in
the use of her senses, the modesty of Jesus Christ, holding aloof from a
deceitful world and from dangerous occasions. Do you imagine her in all that?
What are the sources of your temptations… of your weaknesses… of your
anxieties… of your falls? Try to eliminate these sources.
2. Fly from everything that has injured you. Practice what you have had the
misfortune to neglect with regard to purity.
3. As on the first day.
THIRD DAY
1. Consider that Saint Philomena preserved and increased the love which she had
for chastity by means of prayer which is the abundant source of spiritual life… by
means of the Sacraments, wherein the soul is washed in the Blood of Jesus
Christ, and is nourished with His Sacred Body, divine gem of Christian chastity…
by remembering that her members were the members of the Body of Jesus
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Christ, and that her body was the temple of the Holy Spirit… It is not true that
you have these same means at your disposal? What use do you ask of them?
2. Redouble the fervor of all your prayers… Say to yourself from time to time. My
members are those of Jesus Christ… the temple of the Holy Spirit.
FOURTH DAY
1. Consider that Saint Philomena was a Martyr… that she had to suffer… to suffer
much… to suffer even unto death, and that she showed an invincible patience in
these torments…Are suffering and patience invariably found together in you? You
have to suffer rarely… to suffer a little… never to suffer to the extent of dying
from it. Now whence is the reason for so much weakness on your part? Do you
not want to remedy that weakness? What sort of remedy will you choose?
2. Suffer patiently those few sorrows oppositions and pains which the Lord may
be pleased to send you this day.
FIFTH DAY
1. Consider that Saint Philomena suffered martyrdom for Jesus Christ… They
wanted to wrest her Faith from her… they wanted to make her violate her
Baptismal vows, to persuade her to follow the example of idolaters and
apostates. And what does the devil, the world; the flesh and your own heart
want from you on so many occasions but the same sort of unfaithfulness? All
forms of it are an offence against God. Are these not vain fears, indeed, which
make you lacking something in your duties, or which cause you to betray your
faith?... O my God, what a shameful slackness!...Take courage at last…
2. To overcome human respect, say to yourself from time to time: It is better to
please God than men.
SIXTH DAY
1. Consider that Saint Philomena, is dying for Jesus Christ, had to put into
practice the maxim of the Savior. “He who does not despise his father, his
mother and even his own life for the love of Me, cannot be called disciple.” She
did not hesitate… She sacrificed everything, no matter how her blood and her
nature raised their voices in protest. In far less difficult circumstances do we
show ourselves to be worthy of Jesus Christ. If at some juncture we were called
upon to choose between God and creatures, between grace and nature, between
the love of God and the affection of creatures, to whom would we give our
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sons of God and disciples of Jesus Christ.
2. Let us endeavor during this day to please only God, or to please creatures
solely for God’s sake. Let us remove far from us all disordered affection.
SEVENTH DAY
1. Consider that Saint Philomena, in dying for Jesus Christ, had to endure the
jeers, the sarcasms, the outrages of her persecutors, of her executioners and of
the majority of the witnesses to her torture… She was none the less generous,
none the less constant, none the less joyous in the public confession of her
faith… If the world gave you a similar chalice to drink would you have enough
courage to drain the bitterness of it with the same kind of sentiments? Oh! What
do the jokes, the scorn, or the most unjust or bloodiest persecution of the world
matter?... Can anything ever dishonor a soul that is honored by God? Fear
nothing… Follow out your road… It is leading straight to the possession of eternal
glory.
2. Do not allow your heart to be changed if abrupt words are spoken to you, or
rough, biting and offensive words, are hurled at you.
EIGHT DAY
1. Consider that when Saint Philomena died, for love of Jesus Christ, to all the
things of this wretched world, she entered into the joy of eternal life… Yes I am
certain, she said in her heart: “the supreme Judge will give me the crown of
justice which He has promised me in return for all the fleeting goods which I
sacrifice to His Love.” She dies… and behold her in the tabernacle of God, with
the Saints who follow the Lamb… Are these the thought which I try to have when
I find myself confronted with some sacrifice?... What impression do they make
on my spirit?... To what side do they make the balance fall?... Ah! in order to
gain all, the Saints used to say: “Let us lose it all”... and what shall I say?
2. To-day let us decide on some voluntary sacrifice… Let us do readily and with a
good heart everything in connection with our duties.
NINTH DAY
1. Consider that Saint Philomena, having sacrificed everything in this miserable
world for Jesus Christ, received back from Himself in this world more than the
hundredfold of what He had given! What renown! What power! What glory! What
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What festivities in her honor. What tributes of reverence have been paid to her!
What an ardent longing to get possession of her relics! Thus precisely does God
fulfill His promises. Ah! If only we maintained our promises to Him with the same
fidelity! But when we deprive Him of His glory, do we not perhaps deprive
ourselves of great merit and favor both in this world and in the next?... Courage,
therefore… Be faithful in order that God may be faithful with you.
2. Today do some little work of mercy in honor of the Saint. Prepare yourself! By
a good Confession to receive Our Lord Jesus Christ in a fitting manner in Holy
Communion
Let us Pray
O God, who in Thy great might didst raise up martyrs even from among the
weaker sex, grant, we beseech Thee, that we who celebrate the feast of Thy
blessed Virgin and Martyr, Philomena, may be led by her example and brought
by her to thee: Through Our Lord Jesus Christ Who, with the Father and the Holy
Spirit, liveth and reigneth one God, in perfect Trinity, for ever and ever. Amen.
How To Pray Your Assigned Decade

of the Living Rosary
(please click here to download and print "How to Pray Your Decade" instructions.)
Restore the Family to Christ

Through the Immaculate Heart
of Mary!
Let us unite with all the members of the Living Rosary Association throughout the

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world, and offer this Decade of the Most Holy Rosary for the Triumph of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary and in honor of St. Philomena, Venerable Pauline
Marie Jaricot and St. Therese of the Child Jesus; for all the Bishops, priests and
religious enrolled; for the sick and the suffering; for those who will die today that
they may be given the grace of a final perseverance and a holy death, and for
peace in our Family.
While holding the Crucifix in the hand, make the Sign of The Cross.
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Call to mind the Mystery you are assigned; then on the large bead, pray the
Our Father.
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come;
Thy Will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day, our daily
bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against
us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen.
On the ten small beads, pray the Hail Mary.
Hail Mary! Full of Grace; the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst
women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Close your Decade with the Glory Be.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the
beginning, is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

I am very happy that you came back to the work after the hurricane and I am able to
communicate with you and to receive your letters. The first of all I would like to inform you
that Today I come back from Poland.
Today I defended my master thesis and was admitted to study PHD program in Poland. I will
study by computer from Ukraine and will need from time to time to come to Poland to take my
exams. It gives me the possibility to stay in Lviv and work for the Living Rosary full time and I
will be able to continue my work without any problems for four years. Today I come back to
Ukraine to work for the Living Rosary.
Also I have very good news. Our center is going to publish the Novena to Virgin Mary from
Lourdes. Also in this book was put information about the Living Rosary Association and how to
enroll to ULRA and information about our devotion. Therefore I hope that more new people
will join our organization. Also this is very tremendous news. One of the most important
bishops from Ukraine asked the ULRA to publish his reflections upon the Rosary. He is very
smart bishop and good preacher. His reflections are very traditional and many people ask us
to publish this book I think it will be very good idea to publish this book. At the end of the
book I am going to add the information about our organization and mission. Recently I met
with the bishop Sofron Mudriy and he told me that he gives official permission to publish this
book and he thanks the Living Rosary Association and you for our work and sacrifice. I think it
is very important step which will help us to extend our mission and get the recognition from
the bishops of Ukrainian Greek - Catholic Church. What do you think? Please let me know but
I ask your permission for publishing this book and Novena to Virgin Mary from Lourdes. I ask
you the official permission and will wait until you will let me know.
More new members are enrolled and I am going to send you more pictures and new members
list this week.
Dear Mrs. Patti This month we will need to increase the copies of the newspaper for 10,000
because more people are willing to receive the newspaper and more people enroll to Living
Rosary Association by reading of our newspaper. I thank you very much and May God Bless
you.
All the Sacred Masses are arranged and I am going to send the notes tomorrow morning to
you via - regular post mail.
I am looking forward to hear from you and May God bless you.
Faithfully yours with the prayers and respect father Ivan Kolodiy
Father Ivan Kolodiy
Sunday, September 28, 2008

How are you? I hope everything might have been restored and put into function after your
terrible Hurricane.
But still I am worried as I have not received any note from you. Can you please write a few
lines?
I want to tell you today about my visit to Hasilpur (about eight hours travel from faisalabad). I
went there on 25th in the morning and reached there at about 7:00 p.m. On 26th Bishop
Andrew Francis (Bishop of Multan Diocese) also came there. He offered Holy Mass. Fr. Francis
was there from Larkana for lecture. You might have heard about the series of bomb blasts in
Pakistan. Almost everyday, there is a blast somewhere in Pakistan. Even in Islamabad (Capital
city of Pakistan) is not safe where last days Marriot hotel has been ruined taking lives of
many including some foreigners and Pakistanis. So, likewise while Bishop was giving thanks
after Mass, news were heard about a blast in Hasilpur. Fr. Asif the parish priest immediately
tightened security. When the news came on media my daughter and my mother contacted me
and asked me if I was safe. They all were very worried. At night, before I returned back we
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on the railway line which blasted while train was passing over it.
So, this is the condition here. It is very dangerous these days to travel, no body knows what
will happen where the bomb is; in the bus, train, van, hotel or bus stand railway station etc.
Therefore please always keep me especially in your prayers.
After waiting a lot, I have ordered to print banners of St. Philomena. Because I am going to
Jhelum on Wednesday and Sr. Iffat asked me to bring it. Then I will go to Mianwali, Sialkot
and Nowshera. I think I will cancel the Nowshera because it is in N.W.F. Province and there
the security condition is very worse. Please send two airlifts as soon as you can.
I am sending you some new lists and pictures.
OK, Good Bye and God Bless You,
Yours in Christ and Holy Mother,

AFZAAL ANWAR KHOKHAR
Thursday, September 25, 2008

ULRA Mission in the Ukraine
Fr. IVAN KOLODIJ
Representative
ULRA – UKRAINE
Sr. Mateiya is the local leader of the Living Rosary in Dolyna City and enrolled many new
members.
These children belong to Saint Philomena. They pray very often to her.

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This family was saved from a divorce by Saint Philomena. They became very devoted to the
Living Rosary and Saint Philomena as they received many graces.

News sent to us from Monica Opris, Romania

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Dearest Patti,
I and family were very shocked to hear of the Ike cyclone that hit your area. All of us were
very very sorry to hear the news. Last night after we heard the news, we right away entered
our prayers room and prayed for you and your family, your mom, you’re staffs, all
benefactors, The Slater's, and all ULRA members in your area, and those who are living in the
disaster area. We keep on praying for all of you and hope that all of you are safe and haven't
been hurt of suffered any damage. We pray and hope that your house and the Philomena
Center will not be destroyed by the worst cyclone. We also hope that all you loved ones are
well. After praying for you, I tried and tried to send you the e-mail news but unfortunately it
failed. I think the connection was probably temporarily unavailable or something mechanical
error. So now I am here at the internet cafe to write you and hope that you'll get the news.
Today is Sunday here and we will write your names and the intention for your safety and put
it on the Holy Altar to be prayed by the priest and also by the people who attend the Holy
Mass which will be scheduled this afternoon at the Cathedral. I also have tried all I can to
contact some members of Living Rosary to pray for all of you. May God protect you, and Our
Blessed Virgin Mary and our loving Saint Philomena, The Angels and all Saints be with all of
you. All of us here would be grateful if you are able to inform us how all of you are now.
Dearest Patti, I and family would like to thank you heartily for your prayers that I am still
alive. But I still have to be very careful as it is still very painful when I walk or when I sneeze
or cough. I hope I wouldn’t have the second operation for this. This pain made me unable to
write you sooner as I expected after I checked out from the hospital. Consuming medicines
might have caused some side effects to my health. But now it seems much better and for me
this cure was a miracle one. I keep on using Holy Oil, wearing Cord and I thank to our Blessed
Virgin Mary and Saint Philomena for their intercession that I am still alive at the moment. I
also would like to let you know that the boxes (three) boxes of sacramentals and a letter sent
from you have arrived me safely. Thank you very much for few Angus Dei and other

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sacramentals for the people here. They have been well distributed to the members awaited for
them. They were very happy to have the sacramentals and they told me that they were very
happy to recite their Decades daily. I keep on spreading Living Rosary, I often got the phones
from those who wanted to ask information about Living Rosary, and some came to see me at
my home. My sons and my wife helped me a lot in spreading. Being stronger and stronger I
plan to see some schools to introduce Living Rosary to the students and the teachers there. At
the moment I have enrolled many new members and I will send the names to you very soon.
If possible I will send them to you after the Holy Mass. Now I have to go back to my home to
prepare my self to attend the Holy Mass. I will do it on my way home after Holy Mass at the
Cathedral. I will write and tell you more about a lady whom miraculously healed from his bad
disease.
I think that is all for now, and our heart and prayers are with you and family, with all of your
Staffs, with all benefactors, and with The Slater’s. Our very best wishes to all of you from me
and family.
Our love and our union in prayers,
Milkier Kari and family

Timor, NTT, Indonesia.
Saturday, September 13, 2008

The love and peace of our lord Jesus Christ be with you and with the entire living Rosary
group. How are you? I hope you are doing great for the sake of our loving Father. I came back
to Jerusalem after long summer activity in Ethiopia specially I have been in the poor Christian
area. It was my great joy to be there and to teach them about our heavenly Mother Mary and
for our patron St. Filomena.
After teaching them I gave for all young people and children the Rosary and Medal which you
send me last time they where very grateful for you and for all those whom support you in
different way to reach them.
Dearest Patti, Whenever I kiss the altar for the celebration of Mass I remember you. Just I
sent you some photographs of the children.
Mary, pray for us!
Fr. Fikremariam...

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Friday, September 12, 2008

No doubt you are overwhelmed with mail and the need to respond to everyone - sounds like a
humanly impossible task. Your booklet, Dedicated Decades, was, for me, a wake-up call that
there are so many others out there in this big world who are suffering and yet manage to keep
the faith.
Thank you for your work, thank you for your effort, thank you for doing that which others
should, but don't do.
I will remember you and your staff in my prayers - and will continue to send donations for the
simple reason that they're needed and not necessarily for an answered prayer. I mentioned in
my note to you that St. Philomena had stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the ball
park ... you, undoubtedly, do that every time a new issue of Dedicated Decades arrives in my
mailbox.
Continued success to you and your staff.
Sincerely, Ann Badach
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Regarding the request from Bishop Bosco Robelo Vivas of Leon, Nicaragua
Good afternoon! I wanted to give you an update on the generous shipment of religious
materials, Rosaries and Scapulars. We have 70% of what you sent in one box. We are waiting
on the shippers to come and to pick it up. We are sending it by private company Medrano.
Sister Laura is raising funds now for the shipment. She just began the school year and was
quite busy at the end of August. We are really blessed to have your help and the help of St.
Philomena! And I just want you to know that we are grateful. As Sister Laura has time, she
will be packing a second box with the remainder of the materials and we will be getting that
off. I helped with the first box, but am now on my regular job, which is a ship doctor - I am
writing from the ship - we are in St. Petersburg, Russia, now. May our gracious Lord and Lady
bless you - may the lay apostolate be blessed - I bless you for bringing me the devotion of St.
Philomena and for all that you do.
Sincerely, Debra (The Blue Army)

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Thank you so much for touching my heart with your thoughtfulness. I was really praying to
receive the rosaries, scapulars and medals on Mama Mary's birthday (I am too much, but I
just to be sincere). What really a blessings! I didn't receive the religious articles but I got your
letter exactly after the Eucharistic celebration in honor of her birthday, confirming of the
package you have sent....THANK YOU SO MUCH. I will write you soon when I receive them...
I promise to live "OUR COMMITMENTS" (The decade, intention, hour, duration, spread the
devotion, one decade for each member, and to pray for one another) for the greater glory o
God and for the salvation of souls.
May the Lord will continue to bless the association and all the members with His love and
mercy.
AVE MARIA.
With all my prayers,

Sr. Maria Corazon A. Lendio, DVMI
Daughters of Virgin Mary Immaculate
Muntinlupa City
Philippines
Monday, September 8, 2008

From The Universal Living Rosary Mission in the Philippines

My mission was wonderful! You will see how people are thirsty for the decade of the Rosary
and God! They lined up for registrations, to become a new member of the Living Rosary
Association! The priest was so happy that he left the masses to me! And I used their native
language in saying masses as I have the gift of languages, I got them!
Mum you know there is a need to rekindle the spirit again on the members! After the crises
here in Kenya, many problems, and the priests are ignorant of the devotions, they need
somebody to explain to them what the devotion is all about IN PERSON!
Thanks to God the new Cardinal John was appointed as the head of pontifical mission for the
propagation of faith! There we are!!! Venerable Pauline Jaricot is everywhere in Kenya, the
Photos, the pontifical childhood mission, all with the life of Venerable Pauline Jaricot with
seminars for priests, so many priests in Kenya are coming to know more about Pauline Jaricot
and all that he had done! It is a divine providence!
Now mum I have many invitations!!! And I am almost free now! So I want to visit all the
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You are trying mum bravo! Keep up the spirit! I will post about 5,000 names this week!
-in next message I will talk about the duties of a superior!
Ave Maria
Fr Patrick Mary Filomena

Kenya, Africa
Saturday, September 6, 2008

Satanic Rites at Bizana - Eastern Cape, Africa
Since January 2008, we have been hearing of Satanism in this area of Bizana. People from the
Roman Catholic Mission have been reporting to us that there are some people who go around
hunting for women and girls whom they can kill and remove some parts of their body viz.
breasts, uterus, etc. Seemingly, they give these things to people who promise them a lot of
money.
We were told that these people are able to open the locked doors of houses by simply twisting
their index and middle fingers and when the door falls down, they are able to get inside the
house. People say that this was happening between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. when the family
members were just relaxing, having their supper or watching TV. It is said that when they get
into the house like that, people try to run away to save their lives. Some would hide under the
beds or somewhere inside the house if they cannot manage to get out of the house.
The eye witnesses have reported that, when the culprits get hold of a woman, they knock her
on the head with a hammer and she gets dizzy and falls down semi-conscious. The culprits
then draw out some blood from the jugular vein in the neck with a big syringe and fill 1 liter or
2 liter containers with the fresh blood while the victim is still alive. After that they knock the
shoulders of the victim with a hammer again, so that the victim cannot lift her arms while they
are removing her breasts. The culprits then cut out the uterus and other private parts and
leave the victim to die, as they make their way out.
During the Holy Week, it was reported that, at least, 19 people had been killed. To our
greatest surprise, none of our Catholics in that area of Luhrolweni near Port Edward was
attacked and killed. They all believe that it is because they were wearing the Sacramentals:
the Rosary, Mm and St. Philomena/St. Michael medal. They tell us that the blessed oil of St.
Philomena is so powerful. They bless themselves with it, anoint their family members and
smear it on their doors. Anyone who seems to be possessed by the evil spirit becomes well
again after being anointed with this precious oil. Even non-Catholics do come to the convent
to ask for Medals and holy pictures saying they believe that they evade the devil.
Our sincere thanks goes to our Blessed Mother Mary, St. Philomena, St. Michael and all the
promoters of the Living Rosary. Prayers and Sacramentals have driven away the evil spirits.
May God bless and reward you all!
Sr. Consolata
Bizana R.C.C. Mission
Eastern Cape - AFRICA
Friday, September 5, 2008

Fr. Levi Supriyadi, SVD
Parish Pries of Mariant
Papua New Guinea
September 5, 2008
Please click here to download and read the letter >>>

News from Thailand from December 2007 to present.
Bishop Abraham Than

Mons. Abraham Than Bek
Fr. Martino Ai Han
Sr. Teresa Musa
Sr. Alphonsa Agnese
Maesai Chiangrai, Thailand
Please Click Here to Read the Whole Newsletter

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The 15 Promises Made by the Blessed

Virgin to St. Dominic and Blessed Alanus
1. To all those who shall recite my Rosary devoutly, I promise my special
protection and very great graces.
2. Those who shall persevere in the recitation of my Rosary will receive some
signal grace.
3. The Rosary will be a very powerful armor against Hell; it will destroy vice,
deliver from sin and dispel heresy.

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4. The Rosary will make virtue and good works flourish, and will obtain for souls
the most abundant Divine mercies; it will substitute in hearts love of God for love
of the world and elevate them to desire heavenly and eternal goods. Oh, that
souls would sanctify themselves by this means!
5. Those who trust themselves to me through the Rosary will not perish.
6. Those who shall recite my Rosary piously, considering its mysteries, will
not be overwhelmed by misfortune, nor die a bad death.
7. Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the consolations of the
Church or without grace.
8. Those who shall recite my Rosary will find during their life and at their death,
the light of God, the fullness of His grace and will share in the merits of the
blessed.
9. I will deliver very promptly from purgatory the souls devoted to my Rosary.
10. The true children of my Rosary will enjoy great glory in Heaven.
11. What you shall ask through my Rosary, you shall obtain.
12. Those who propagate my Rosary will obtain through me aid in all their
necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Son that all the members of the Rosary
Confraternity shall have for their intercessors in life and death the Saints of
Heaven.
14. Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are my beloved children, the brothers
and sisters of Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of predestination.
Imprimatur: Most Rev. Clarence G. Issenmann, STD,
Bishop of Cleveland

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The Rosary
& The Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena
Your Role in the Living Rosary Today
The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful.

– James 5:16
The Living Rosary Association began its revival on December 8, 1986, with 30 local members. Blessed 1000-fold
by Our Lady and under the powerful patronage of St. Philomena, the membership is now over 11,000,000 and
has been planted in every continent of the world. Over 3/4 of the membership lies in foreign and Third World
countries. Each member is asked to voluntarily give a small monthly donation. There is no other financial
support other than from its members. The funds received are placed directly back into the work to spread the
devotion, mail sacramentals to the missions and maintain the Center. For those who are unable to contribute a
monetary donation, we ask for your fervent prayers that our material needs are met.
Let us reach all souls with the spiritual remedy of the Living Rosary!
To register as a member of the Living Rosary, please click here. A list of 15 names will be assembled, and when the Rosary
is complete, the decade you have been assigned and the day to begin will be sent to you.
Let us unite with one purpose, spirit and prayer. The intentions of the Universal Living Rosary Association are:
The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and in honor of St.

Philomena our patroness and protectress.
Membership Obligations
The Living Rosary is a “perpetual" Rosary! That is, you accept the obligation to pray your daily Mystery faithfully
for the remainder of your life. These obligations do not bind under pain of sin, but your effort and desire to
remain faithful are necessary. If you should decide that you can no longer fulfill your obligation, we do
understand. Our only concern is to keep the Rosaries complete. Please do let us know if you can no longer
participate so that we may reassign your Mystery.

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Have courage, my dear children! I exhort you to fight against the

persecution of the Church and against anarchy, not with the sword, but
with the rosary, with prayer and good example.
– Pope Pius IX, on May 23, 1877
A regular Spring and Winter newsletter, “Dedicated Decades", is posted to each member in an effort to
encourage all to persevere and remain faithful. The individual devotion of isolated souls is often a spark in the
middle of darkness without the influence of a flame. Through our union of charity in prayer and intention, this
spiritual remedy is 'injected' into the souls of all who participate as "spiritual medicine". In this way, those who
are strong uphold the weak; those who are fervent inspire the lukewarm and the spiritually rich enrich the poor:
BRING THEM TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE A FURNACE! One who prays the Rosary alone receives the grace of one
Rosary but, if he is united with many, he gains the graces and merits of the whole. Your Decade may be offered
at any time of the day or night.

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The Living Rosary Associates must pray daily one OUR FATHER, ten HAIL MARY’s and one GLORY BE,
accompanied by meditation on the Mystery assigned. It is recommended that this be done during the morning
hours. The graces of this great union of prayer will fortify and strengthen you for the many difficulties and duties
of your busy and demanding day.

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Our Commitment:
1. THE DECADE:
One Our Father
Ten Hail Mary’s
Meditation on the Mystery
2. THE INTENTION:
Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
In Honor of Saint Philomena
3. THE HOUR:
Any time of the day or night and in any place – no need to gather in a group.
4. THE DURATION:
Daily until death!
5. VOLUNTARY DONATION:
$1.00 a month will help us meet the expenses of the Apostolate.
6. SPREAD THE DEVOTION:
Bring in new members
7. ONE DECADE FOR EACH:
List your first and last name
8. PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER:
Pray for deceased members
Pray for us
The indulgences granted to this simple devotion include all those of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary and
more! The 15 Promises >>>
The Rosary
The Rosary is our greatest weapon – the rampart against which the forces of evil have no defense. It is the most
highly indulgenced and recommended prayer. It is a weapon “without equal” that will crush the enemies of Holy
Mother the Church, and finally, bring peace so needed in our world! The Rosary is the Bulwark of the Church:
“Many Christian nations seek the protection of the Mother of God with an ardor that grows greater every day;
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but as the very badge of Christian piety! The Rosary is the protection of the Mother of God against the
enemies of the Catholic Church. To Mary we must fly. We wish to see it offered more widely in all places and
at all times! The great virgin of the Rosary is the most potent help of Christians."
Mary worked through St. Dominic and now works through us to pray the Rosary to rescue Her children from the
powers of Satan and into the abundant life found in Christ our Savior.
Audio Presentation about the Rosary
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May Christ dwell in our hearts through faith, and may charity be the root
and foundation of our life.
– cf. Eph 3:17
Following the example of the Venerable Pauline Jaricot, who founded the work of “a penny a week” for the
Propagation of the Faith, you and your family may also consider dedicating monetary support equivalent to a
meal a month or other offering to the Living Rosary.
The majority of the members of the Living Rosary are in third world countries. Every donation received goes
directly back into this universal and heroic missionary effort through the distribution of Catholic literature, holy
cards and sacramentals such as the holy oil of St. Philomena.
Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena is a nonprofit Corporation 501(c)(3) charitable organization
and as such we automatically give "Tax Receipts" to all those who make a financial donation. For those who
donate $100 or more, a “TRIDUUM of MASSES” will be arranged for the donor and his/her family. Thirty dollars
of every $100 donated supports the missionary who will offer these masses. Through your help, the prayers of
the missions will continue to work miracles in the lives of all of its members and families, thus strengthening the
Mystical Body of Christ.
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missions abroad. God bless you for your generosity.
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Whosoever dies wearing this Scapular Shall not suffer eternal fire!
Our Lady of Mount Carmel to Simon Stock
July 16, 1251
No matter how extraordinary this promise may appear to be, the Blessed Mother made it and She will keep it. At
the word of Her FIAT, She conceived by the Holy Ghost and the Incarnate Word became Man. If Almighty God,
in obedience to the word of the priest every day at Holy Mass, comes down upon our Altars Body, Blood, Soul
and Divinity, will He refuse His Mother this grace for Her children!
To save souls from Hell, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my
Immaculate Heart. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you
to God.
– Fatima. 1917
True devotion to Mary consists in three things: Veneration, Confidence and Love. Without saying to Mary that
we venerate Her, love Her and trust in Her protection, we tell Her all these things every moment of the day by
simply wearing Her Brown Scapular.
The Scapular will be for all The Sign of our Consecration to The Immaculate Heart of Mary.
– Pope Pius XII
The Scapular is a Prayer
Mary's Motherhood is not limited to Catholics; it is extended to ALL MEN. Many miracles of conversion have
been obtained through the devout wearing of the Scapular. The Scapular is a great missionary Sacramental. After
the Rosary, the Scapular is the most highly indulgenced Sacramental in the Church.
Love the Scapular!

Wear it Always!
Venerate it Often!
What a terrible shame that so many ignore Our Blessed Mother's request and, even more, have never heard of
it. What a great loss of grace for mankind! Become an apostle of the Brown Scapular!
The Brown Scapular is a Sacramental!

A Sacramental is anything set aside by Holy Mother the Church to excite pious thoughts and increase
devotion. Through these movements of the heart, venial sin is remitted and grace imparted. The possession of
grace is the FOUNDATION OF PEACE. Let everyone wear the Scapular!
The first Scapular worn should be blessed by a priest and imposed by him (if possible). Any priest may bless
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and enroll in the Confraternity. After having received the initial blessed Scapular from a priest, no other
Scapular need be blessed before wearing. The blessing and imposition are attached to the wearer for life. Every
priest has the privilege of enrolling in the Scapular Confraternity.
The Scapular is 'Mary's Mantle.' made of wool, and MUST be worn over the shoulders so that one piece falls in
front, the other in the back. Each time the Scapular is kissed with devotion, 500 days indulgence is granted to
those in the state of grace. The Scapular Medal was created only for those who would suffer grave inconvenience
in wearing the cloth and the indulgence of 500 days does NOT apply to the Medal. To obtain the graces and
promise of the Scapular, it must be worn constantly. It should be worn day and night in sickness and in health.
When the Scapular is worn-out, being a sacred object, it should not be thrown in the regular garbage but should
be burned or buried.
The Sabbatine Privilege consists of Our Lady's promise to release from Purgatory, through her special
intercession, on the first Saturday after their death, those who meet these three requirements:
(1) You must wear the Scapular;
(2) You must observe chastity according to your state of life;
(3) You must recite daily the Little Office of Our Blessed Mother. (The Rosary or some other pious work may
be substituted for the Office. ALL CONFESSORS were given faculty to make this substitution by Pope Leo XIII in
June of 1901.
Am All Thine. O Immaculate
Heart of Mary,
Save Me!
Scapular wearers share in the daily prayers of the Carmelite Order and the worldwide good works of some
two hundred million members of the Scapular Confraternity.
A Sign of Salvation!
A Protection in Danger!
A Pledge of Peace!

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Sweet Heart of Mary, Be My Salvation!
Man cannot be saved without prayer. Only one thing can release the graces necessary to bring about world peace
and that is prayer. The Scapular is the Promise of Mary's prayer. By wearing the Scapular, we offer the
perpetual prayer that everything we do is done in God's eyes through Mary. At the same time, we become apostles
of Our Mother because all that She requires to save the world is to make our daily actions a prayer in union with
Her. The Brown Scapular is the masterpiece of the love of the Heart of Mary. An attack on the Scapular is an
attack on the Church and the Mother of God. Let us defend it and explain its value to all. It is our sign of belonging
to the universal family of Her Immaculate Heart. Mary, O my Mother, I am Thine!
O Mother of Carmel, when my last hour shall sound and I take Thy holy Scapular into my trembling hands, fill
my heart with confidence in thee, and do thou, my loving Mother, receive my Soul and order it to the Sacred Heart
of Jesus. Amen.
(Hail Mary - three times)
Sweet Heart of Mary, Be My Salvation!
(An indulgence of 300 days)
The Blessing of the Scapular of Mount Carmel
O Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of mankind, by Thy right Hand sanctify this Scapular which Thy servant will

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devotedly wear for the love of Thee and of Thy Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel, so that, by
her intercession, he/she may be protected from the wickedness of the enemy and persevere in Thy grace until
death: Who livest and reignest forever and ever. Amen.
Sprinkle the Scapular with Holy Water.
Investiture for Enrollment Into The Confraternity
Receive this blessed habit and ask the most holy Virgin that, by her merits, it may be worn with no stain of sin;
that She may guard thee from all evil and bring thee to life everlasting. Amen.
Investiture for Enrollment Into The Confraternity.
By the power granted me, I admit thee to the participation of all the spiritual works performed, with the merciful
help of Jesus Christ, by the Religious of Mount Carmel; in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Ghost. Amen.
May Almighty God, Creator of Heaven and earth, bless you whom He has been pleased to receive into
the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel! We beg her to crush the head of the ancient serpent
in the hour of your death and, in the end, to obtain for you the palm and the crown of your everlasting
inheritance. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Sprinkle the person with Holy Water.
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Sightings
A Section of Images of Statues and Stained Glass Windows around the World you Have Sent Us.
Please send photos of your "Sightings" to, filomena@philomena.org

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Saint Paul's Catholic Church, Portsmouth, Virginia,

United States
Saint Paul's Catholic Church, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States

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Santo Domingo Church and Convent, Oaxaca, Mexico

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San Gabriel Mission Parish, San Gabriel California, United States

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Sacred Heart Church, Pondy, India

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The chapel of St. Philomena next to the gate of the Neerhof to the castle in the Vaartstraat Hansbeke
(Nevele), Belgium. The chapel was commissioned by the lord of the Woestyne d'Hansbeke built in 1848 in a
dark empire style. Rectangular brick chapel vijfzijdig completed apse under leiendak. Open portal formed by
two Tuscan columns plastered with a classical head system and triangular pediment. Framed door with round
arch and open range with gilded iron openwork. Marbled interior plastered with half columns. Painted wooden
altar on which image of saint. On the altar statue of H. Philomena and accompanying nisjes, images of H. John
the Baptist and Our Lady, all of the sculptor Vigne.

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Immaculate Conception Catholic Church , Monrovia, California, United States
In the San Martin Caballero Chapel, Guadalupe, Nuevo León, México

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In the San Martin Caballero Chapel, Guadalupe, Nuevo León, México
Saint Clement Church.

Images of eight
women saints
(including this one of
Saint Philomena)
appear in mosaics with
a golden background
on the piers that
uphold the dome.
Images of eight women saints (including this one of Saint Philomena) appear in mosaics with a golden background
on the piers that uphold the dome.
Saint Clement Church
Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Stained Glass Window of St. John Vianney and St. Philomena, Saint Nizier, Lyon, France
Stained Glass Window of St. John Vianney and St. Philomena, Saint Nizier, Lyon, France

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Photo taken by João Paulo Esperança in Ilhavo, Portugal.
Produced for Father Gibas at Saint Clement Church, Navarre, OH - Saint Philomena mosaic

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Vauxrenard Church, Paris, France

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Saint Filomena`s Roman Catholic Church at Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.

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Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel, Monroe, Connecticut, United States. Saint Philomena Painting Inside Chapel.

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Courtesy of Milton Micallef
“It was taken in a private Mass chapel in the chapel of the Sacred Heart Monastery (St. Paul's National
Seminary—Missionaries of the Sacred Heart) in Kensington, Sydney, Australia. It is not a public church but
one may visit by knocking on the door.”

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A stained glass window in St. Anne's' Church, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

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A Statue in the Saint Philomena Church in Detroit Michigan, United States.

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A Statue in the Saint Philomena Shrine in Italy
Santa Filomena, patron saint of children of Maria - San Francisco Church, Lima, Peru

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Immaculate Heart of Mary, Valparaiso, Chile

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St. John Baptist Church (chiesa San Giovanni Battista)

Calibria, Italy
St. John Baptist Church (chiesa San Giovanni Battista) Calibria, Italy
St. John Baptist Church (chiesa San Giovanni Battista)

Calibria, Italy
St. John Baptist Church (chiesa San Giovanni Battista) Calibria, Italy
Church Of Santa Filomena, Pallagorio, Italy
The church of S. Filomena is the only one that has a precise date. A plaque inside testimony that was completed
in 1859. This church has its own unique legend. It was erected by the will of the spouses Vitetti who, not
having children and heirs, gave all their property to the church of S. Filomena. In their building would be a
miracle happened. The statue of St. Filomena, in the absence of Mr Vitetti would have responded to a woman
who was looking for the lady, saying, "Mommy's not." Following this strange event was erected the church of
S. Filomena, and all properties Vitetti (including the palace, which corresponded to the town hall), were given to
the Church.

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Church of Santa Filomena - Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil

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Saint Clement Church, Navarre, OH - Saint Philomena Custom Statue - Conrad Moroder
Sightings - Mugnano del Cardinale, Italy

The following series of slide shows were sent to us with descriptions written by Henry
Bludau . These were taken on his pilgrimages to Ars , La Salette , Loreto ,
Lyon , Mugnano , Paris and Rome .
Mugnano del Cardinale, Italy

Images around the streets in front of St. Philomena's sanctuary in Mugnano during the
days of her feast in August 2007. The lights stay up year round, having been set up for
St. Philomena's bicentennial celebrations in 2005. They are only turned on for her feast
days, though.
Band plays in town square under the lights on the anniversary feast of her translation
and arrival in Mugnano in 1805.
The next day begins at dawn with a cannon shot echoing across town as a wakeup call.
I caught this little four-man band playing as I walked to St. Philomena's shrine through
the quiet early morning streets of the town.
Arriving at the shrine a few minutes before it opened meant a short wait on the porch,
but an excellent chance to photograph the bronze outer doors. The panels depict the
translation of the relics to Mugnano; the cure of Pauline Jaricot; and the Popes who were
devoted to St. Philomena.
Pictures of the miraculous wooden processional staue of St. Philomena, 200 years old
and still carried out and through the town every year. The reliquary at the foot of the
processional statue contains 1) a piece of bone from St. Philomena; 2) a piece of the
clothing which the papermache figure built around her bones inside the glass-sided urn
had worn; 3) a strand of the miraculous silk hair from the figure which had grown out 27
inches.
There is also in the church at Mugnano a beautiful statue of St. Philomena and the Cure
of Ars. He once had been praying to her for an answer to what he should do with a
substantial sum of money he had received -- whether to use it to begin building the new
church he had always wanted to dedicate in her honor, or use it in his favorite cause of
paying for other priests to go and preach missions at different churches. He said he was
praying at the foot of the altar at Ars when he saw St. Philomena, all beautiful, coming
down from heaven to stand before him. She solved his dilemma by telling him that
"Saving souls is the most important."
This is a St. Philomena cake, part of the party, mostly of people of a pilgrim group from
Northern Ireland that took place inside the Pilgrims' House one night.
The rest of the pictures were taken over the course of ten days, all of our beautiful
princess-sister herself, in her Snow White like casket. You don't think of this image as a
statue at all, it is St. Philomena. She so radically changed this figure over the years since
it was first built around her bones and arrived at Mugnano, that you can't help but feel
you are looking at a self-portrait of St. Philomena. The figure may have been unattractive
when it was first made, but now it is beautiful beyond words. You just want to sit and
stare and talk to her all day, which is why I stayed ten days there, way beyond the feast
days, when it again became quiet and peaceful in there, and it was just you, a few
others, and the dog lying just inside the open front door.

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In the PREPARATION folder are pictures of the processional staue inside the church being
prepared for the procession that evening. This is the same wooden statue that once
became so supernaturally heavy that the men of the village had to do all they could just
to get her back inside the church. This was followed the next day by the statue sweating
the miraculous crystalline manna down its face for two days. Notice in the pictures that it
is the men of the town who take sole responsibility for dressing up our saint for her night
on the town. The tapestries they hang from her hand and on either side are sewn in with
gold jewelry -- rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, even watches -- all gifts of St.
Philomena's devotees in the town and elsewhere. The girls of the town are responsible
for carrying the red canopy ahead of St. Philomena, I guess in case it rains. They never
actually carry her under the canopy, but it is easier to spot sometimes than the statue
from way down the street. Finally the priest incense the staue and it is ready to be
carried forth to the crowd waiting outside.
In the actual PROCESSION folder itself, are pictures of St. Philomena coming out to the
people. Unlike Ars, where a week before I had taken part in another procession on the
Cure's feast day of August 4th -- in which his heart reliquary was solemnly carried along
a road accompanied by a cardinal, several bishops and about 70 priests, the rosary
prayed over the entire route -- the procession of St. Philomena was a loud joyous
celebration. A brass band, with 5 tubas and other horns of all sorts, fifes, and a huge
bass drum, started up as soon as she started down the steps of the church, and we were
off, with St. Philomena, decked out like a glorious warrior princess in the lead. the band
played evrything they knew, even "Stars and Stripes Forever", which is just the kind of
fun-loving saint Philomena is. It took 6&half hours to tour every street in the town, even
though it would only take you about twenty minutes to walk straight across it, and
everywhere people were waiting for her to come, out on their apartment balconies and
along the narrow streets, waiting to bless themselves upon her arrival and short stop
before their dwellings. In several spots, people shot off fireworks into the air so loud that
they seemed to reverberate through the town, and at one particular courtyard off the
narrow street, the fire works went off so close to us that hot ashes rained down upon us
and the statue itself without anyone even batting an eye.

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Sightings - Wisconsin Shrine

The following set of images is of a lovely St. Philomena shrine in Briggsville
Wisconsin. These photos were taken by and generously shared with us by
Richard L. Kittel.

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John Baptist Vianney (Curé d'Ars), Priest (RM)

The Curé of Ars and Saint Philomena.
On her return to France from Mugnano, Pauline Jaricot went to visit her dear friend, the Venerable Curé of Ars,
to whom she recounted the whole history of her miraculous cure. Mdlle. Jaricot bestowed upon the Curé a portion
of the relics she had obtained from Mugnano, uttering these prophetic words; "Have full confidence in this
great Saint, she will obtain for you all that you ask."
The holy priest whilst listening to her with rapt attention felt a burning love for the Little Saint kindle in his
heart. Intense was his joy when Pauline offered him a part of the precious relics which she had brought with her.
A chapel was immediately erected in his church in honour of the Virgin Martyr where the relic was duly placed.
This chapel soon became the scene of innumerable cures, conversions and miracles. M. Vianney dedicated himself
by special vow to Saint Philomena, and a marvelous intimacy became evident between the good priest and her
whom he now considered his Celestial Patroness. He did everything for her and she did everything for him.
She appeared to him, conversed with him and granted everything in answer to his prayers. He called her by
the tenderest names and she delighted in bestowing on him the most wonderful favors. His gift of miracles
was extraordinary, yet, far from producing in him the slightest notion of vanity, it was the greatest cross he had
to bear. He was wont to throw all the blame on Saint Philomena. “It’s Saint Philomena. I wish she would work
her miracles away from here” he would say with a laugh. But all the same the Little Saint seemed to take
keen pleasure in teasing her holy friend by performing her wonders by his very hands. On one occasion a
poor woman in the midst of a crowded church besought him to bless her sick child. The venerable Curé could
not resist the supplications of the poor mother. He blessed the child and it was instantly restored to health. “Oh!
Oh!” said the holy man, full of confusion, making off in haste to the sacristy: “I wish Saint Philomena would
have cured the child at home.”
In season and out of season he spoke of his “dear Little Saint.” In a short time all France rang with her name.
Every diocese has altars and chapels and churches dedicated to the Thaumaturga. In Langres alone there were
no less than twelve churches consecrated to her honour. Her three feasts the 11th, August, her principal festival,
the 25th. May the Finding of her Relics and the Sunday within the octave of the Ascension, the feast of
her Patronage, began to be celebrated with great pomp and attracted immense crowds.

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The Painting that depicts Saint Philomena appearing to Saint John Vianney. The painting is
housed in the Shrine of Ars, France.
A new bond of love.

Of the many marvels to be seen at Ars during the life of its saintly pastor, none was greater than the daily life of
the holy man himself. His frail body was too extenuated with such rigorous fasts and penitential exercises that
his emaciated appearance struck the visitors to Ars with awe. Notwithstanding his extreme weakness, the
incessant labor which he took on himself each day were enough to exhaust the most herculean strength, were
he endowed with it. Day followed day and crowds thronged to Ars not only from all parts of France, but from
England, Ireland, Germany and the other countries of Europe. The sick, the sorrowful, holy souls as well as the
most abandoned sinners flocked round him besieging his confessional. They spent long hours, even days,
awaiting their turn to poor out their sorrows into his loving heart, or to ask for the solution of some subtle
difficulty, or to tell him of the sins and wickedness of a life-time. One glance from him went straight to the heart
of the most hardened reprobate. His angelic smile brought comfort to the most distressed. A word -
seemingly inspired - resolved the most intricate doubt. But how he lived! That was the miracle of Ars.
Every evening during the month of May, it was his wont to give a short Instructional. On the third day, just as he
had begun to speak, he was taken so ill, that he was obliged to quit the pulpit and go to bed. He was found to
be suffering from a serious attack of pneumonia. During the next few days he was much worse; the fever never
left him, and syncope after syncope followed each other in quick succession. Three doctors met in consultation,
and pronounced that there was scarcely any hope.
The whole parish was in tears. “You cannot form any idea,” wrote Mme. La Comtesse des Garets, in a letter
dated May the 10th, 1843, “of the touching and pious spectacle, that has been before our eyes ever since
the beginning of the saintly man’s illness.

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One sees nothing but tears hears nothing but prayers and sobs. The church, which seems desolate without him,
is nevertheless continually filled with weeping crowds, imploring Heaven with heart and should, by prayers, and
acts of naïve faith, and touching piety. …Candles are burning on every altar, rosaries are in every hand. During
the first few days guardians were obliged to be placed at the presbytery door, to keep back the eager crowd
that besieged it, entreating to see the venerable Curé once more, and receive his last benediction. They could
only calm his fervor, by giving notice each time the saint, rising in his bed of suffering, would give a
general benediction.”
M. Vianney’s Confessor was of opinion that the last Sacraments ought to be administered. As the doctors
had recommended hat he should be spared all strong emotion, the priests who were present at Ars, agreed that
the bell should not be rung. The Curé overheard their conversation, and turning to the person at his bedside
said: “Go, and have the bells rung; ought not the parishioners to pray for their Curé?”
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accompanied the Viaticum to the threshold of the presbytery. The priests, Count Prosper des Garets, entered the
sick-chamber, whilst the crowd knelt in the court-yard of the house, and in the village square, weeping and
praying. When M. Vianney was asked if he believed all the truths of religion, he answered: “I have never
doubted one”; if he pardoned his enemies: “Thanks be to God, I have never wished evil to any one.”
As this ceremony is described in the letter to the Countess de Garets just quoted, bearing the date of the 10th
of May, it no doubt took place upon that or the preceding day.
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The next morning the doctor approaching the sick man felt his pulse, and then, believing him to be past hearing,
said aloud,” He has only a few minutes to live.”
The dying man distinctly heard the flat that condemned him; and, being seized with awe and terror of the
Judgment, earnestly prayed to God that He would grant him a reprieve, and delay the awful moment yet a little while.
Four months later he himself described the anguish of this tragic moment to his family, when he was once
more at Dardilly, in their midst. “Be sure, cousin, “he said to Mme. Fayolle of Ecully, “When you assist the dying
by fortifying and preparing them to appear before God, that you never cease your exhortations until they
have actually departed. For this is what happened a little while ago to me, whom all gave up for dead,
and abandoned, without so much as word of comfort, because they were so certain that my last hour had come.
I was in mortal dread of the Judgment of God when the doctor, after feeling my pulse, said, “He has only a
few minutes more to live.” ON hearing those words I thought, “In a few minutes thou wilt appear before God: and
- with empty hands.” Then, at the remembrance of the many persons, who had come from so far off to make
their confessions, and who were imploring the Holy Virgin and Saint Philomena for me with all their hearts, I
said within myself: “Lord! If thou canst still use me do not yet take me from this world.” And even as I spoke, I
felt my vigor renewed; and all my strength returned.”
At the exact moment that M. Vianney was so miraculous restored to life; a Mass was being said on his behalf at
the altar of Saint Philomena. Pertinent, the parish school master - who never left the sick man night of day - was
at this bed-side, and distinctly saw reflected on his face the emotions - to him inexplicable - of the drama which
was being enacted in his soul. In his deposition, in the process of Beatification, he relates, “Before the priest
had begun to offer the Holy Sacrifice, M. Vianney’s attitude appeared to me to be that of a person in mortal terror.
I noticed something extraordinary in him, great anxiety, and unusual perturbation. I observed all his movements
with redoubled attention, thinking that fatal hour had come, and that he was about to breathe his last. But as soon
as the priest was at the Altar he suddenly became tranquil. It was as if he saw something pleasant and
reassuring; and the Mass was scarcely over when he exclaimed, ‘My friend,! a great change has just been wrought
in me….I am cured.’”
From this moment in fact the disease left him and, little by little, his strength came back, so that on Friday, the
19th, he was able to be carried to church as a convalescent. There he fell on his knees before the Tabernacle,
no doubt consecrating to the Service of God the years of life that remained to him.
Then he went and prayed for a long while, in the Chapel of his favorite little saint, to whom intercession, as
he declared, his recovery was due.
Conversions at Ars and what Saint Philomena had to do with them.

Now more than ever was Saint Philomena to work wonders for her holy friend. When great sinners came to him,
after exhorting them to sorrow and moving them to repentance, he used to send them to the altar of Saint
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A distinguished savant from Lyons, M. Massait, set out on a scientific exploration in the French mountains. One of
his fellow travelers, an old friend, who was going to Ars said to him: “Come to Ars and I will show you a Curé
who works miracles.”
“Miracles, my friend. “He said laughing, “I don’t believe in miracles.”
“Well come and I promise that you will se and believe.”
“If you could make me believe, that would indeed be a miracle. But as Ars is not far from the scene of
my explorations, I don’t mind if I do go.” The rest of the story we shall leave M. Massait to tell in his own words.
“Arrived in Ars, my friend put me up at the house of the Widow Gaillard, where we both shared the same room.
Early in the morning he called out to me: “Massiat, will you do me a favor? Will you come to Mass with me?”
“Go to Mass? Why, man” I answered, “I never went to Mass since my First Communion. Ask me something else”.
“You’ll come, old friend, just to do me a favor. It is there you can see and judge the Curé for yourself. I only ask
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“Well, frankly it’s not much to my liking” I replied, “but I will go simply to please you.”
We got to the church. My friend put me in the seat facing the sacristy. Shortly afterwards the door opened and
the Curé, vested for Mass, made his appearance. His eyes met mine for one instant, but the glance went right to
my heart. I felt myself crushed beneath his glare. I bent my head and covered my face with my hands. All during
the Mass I was immovable. When it ended I attempted to lift my head and got up to leave the church. Just as
I passed the sacristy door I heard the words; “Get out all of you, all out” and a long bony hand rested on my arm
and I felt myself drawn irresistibly into the sacristy as by an invisible force. The door closed on me. I felt
myself attain beneath that gaze that seemed to crush me. I blurted out a few confused words: “Reverend Father
I have a burden on my shoulders that weighs me down.” Then I heard what seemed an angelic voice, such a one
as I had never heard before, so sweet that it did not seem to proceed from mortal man.
“You must get rid of the burden at once. Go on your knees; tell me your poor life. Our Lord will take the burden,
my friend.” Then I commenced my confession, it was the story of all my life since my First Communion, Little by
little I felt relieved, then consoled and finally completely at rest. When I had finished, the saintly priest added:
“Come back tomorrow but now you will go to the altar of Saint Philomena and tell her to ask of God your
conversion.” I did not weep in the sacristy but I confess that I wept abundantly at the altar of Saint Philomena.”
This conversation was one of the most striking that occurred at Ars. M. Massait lived thenceforth a most fervent
life which was crowned by a most happy death.
The following is the account given by a religious of his own conversion.
“Though reared by a Catholic mother I soon became dissolute young vagabond and, after a short absence
from home, contracted scandalous vices. M father paid little or no attention to my conduct but my behavior well-
nigh broke my mother’s heart. Taking offence at a few words of correction, I resolved to become a soldier where
I foresaw that I could thus better enjoy my liberty. Before joining my regiment my mother begged me with tears
in her eyes, as a last proof of love, to go with her to Ars. I laughed outright in her face and scoffed at the idea
of going to confession. She begged me at least to go to Ars, even if I did not confess. Her tears and
supplications overcame me and I consented to go, thought in anything but a pleasant frame of mind. But
again temptation awaited me, for, on my arrival, I met two of my companions who sneered at the idea of the
Curé’s influence. For no other reason than to please my mother I went to the church where M. Vianney was
teaching catechism to the children. His appearance struck me forcibly and as his eyes met mine they seemed to
see into the depths of my soul. I began to believe what I had heard already, that the Curé saw what passed in
the consciences of those who approached him. Yet so frail is hi8man nature that on meeting my friends after
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Once more my mother induced me to go to Church but I was scarcely there than I wished to leave. What was
my amazement when at the precise moment the door of the sacristy opened and the Curé came straight towards
me, making a sign to follow him, which I did without knowing what I was about! I fell on my knees and I
wept. Seeing me moved, the holy priest bade me go to the altar of Saint Philomena and say 5 Our Fathers and
Hail Martyrs. I went. It was the hour of grace. Something strange happened to me which I cannot explain. My
heart began to beat with such violence that I was thoroughly frightened. I did not know how long I remained there.
I lost all idea of time. What I do know is that, in getting up, I was no longer the same man. Tears choked me. I
had to go out and breathe in the open air. My two friends, on seeing me exclaimed: “Oh, how you are changed!
You have all the appearance of being converted.” “Perhaps so,” I replied, and turned brusquely on my heels.
Though they made most deliberate and wicked attempts to prevent me, thank God I was proof against all
temptation and have now been enjoying the bliss of religious life for sixteen years.”

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It would fill a whole volume, where we to recount all the wonders which Saint Philomena worked at the prayers of
the dear Curé. Her chapel was a veritable sanctuary of wonders. Thousands came in pilgrimage to ask
her intercession. Ex-voto offerings of every imaginable type testified to the miracles worked, the favors obtained,
the conversions wrought, the blessings granted, the prayers answered. One favor, however, the holy priest asked
for in vain, and that was that she would work her miracles some place else where people were not likely to
attribute them to him This prayer the little Saint persistently refused to hear, for she delighted in working
her wonders through his instrumentality or in answer to his prayers. With this one exception, a perfect
understanding existed between the two so that the Curé felt her presence as it were at his side.
In reply to some one who repeatedly asked him to Curé a friend, he replied: “No, no, Saint Philomena cured
her once. She did not make proper use of it. It’s not likely that the little Saint will do it again.” If, however he did
not obtain her Curé he obtained for the poor invalid abundant graces, patience, strength and divine consolations.
To a religious who was sent by his superior to solicit the Curé of a member of his order whose death would be a
great loss to his Community, M. Vianney replied: “No, no. He is doing much more for his salvation and for his
order as he is. He will not be cured.”
These were the exceptions, countless miracles, cures and conversions were the rule.
The venerable Curé of Ars was raised up by God to serve as the model and patron of priests. They are not
expected to aspire after his extraordinary gifts or to imitate his extreme rigors. That is not possible without a
special call from God. But they can easily follow his example in other ways. What can be more easy, for
instance, than to imitate his sweet intimacy, his unbounded confidence, his tender devotion to Saint Philomena?
If priests would only place a stature of this great Thaumaturga in their churches and spread her devotion, as
well from the pulpit as in the confessional, there churches would soon become centers of devotion and
abundant graces would flow on pastor and people. The sick, the sorrowful, and, above all, the most hardened
inners would soon reap the benefits of the Saint’s powerful intercession.
Born at Dardilly (near Lyons), France, on May 8, 1786; died at Ars, August 4, 1869; beatified on January 8, 1905,
by Pope Pius IX; canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1925; in 1929, he was declared the principal patron of parish priests.
"We cannot comprehend the power that a pure soul has over God. It is not the soul that does God's will, but God
who does the soul's will." -- Saint John Vianney.

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Over the front entrance of the Shrine of Ars, France.
Without his iron-will, it is very unlikely that John Baptist Vianney would have been ordained. He was the son of
a small farmer near Lyons and raised during the French Revolution and its aftermath. He had to take his
First Communion in secret when he was 13, because the Church was still being persecuted. By the time this
shepherd on his father Matthew's farm reached age 18 and decided that he was being called to the priesthood,
open worship was again permitted. Unfortunately, John's father could not afford to send him to school for the
proper education.
Two years later he managed to get into the presbytery-school of the Abbé Balley in the neighboring village of
Ecully, but he had trouble keeping up with the others because he had received so little previous education (a
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Though a seminarian, through an error he was drafted into the army in 1809. He was ordered to report to the
depot in Loyons on October 26, 1809, but two days after receiving the order he was hospitalized and his company
left him behind. On January 5, while still convalescing, he was ordered to report to Roanne for another draft
the following day. They left without him, because he had stopped to pray in the church. He tried to catch up
with them at Renaison, although the only military equipment he had was a knapsack.
While he was resting at the approach to the mountains of Le Forez, a stranger suddenly appeared, picked up
his knapsack, and ordered him to follow. He found himself in a hut near the remote mountain village of Les Noës.
The stranger was a deserter from the army, one of many hiding in the woods and hills of the area. Vianney saw
that the situation was compromising, and reported himself to the mayor of the commune. Monsieur Fayot was
both humane and sensible; he pointed out to John that he technically was already a deserter, and that of two
evils the lesser was to remain in refuge where he was. The mayor found Vianney a place in his own cousin's
home, where John remained in hiding in a stable for 14 months. Several times he was nearly found by
the gendarmes, once even feeling the point of a sword between his ribs as it was thrust about in the hay.
He was able to return home when Napoleon granted amnesty to all deserters in 1810 on the occasion of his
marriage to the Archduchess Marie-Louise. The following year he was tonsured, then spent a year
studying philosophy at the minor seminary at Verrières. In 1813, John entered the major seminary at Lyons.
He never did master Latin; thus, it he was called "the most unlearned but the most devout seminarian in Lyons."
In fact, his scholarship was so bad that he dropped out after the first term, was privately tutored by Abbé Balley,
and then failed the seminary examinations. In spite of that, his reputation for goodness and holiness was so
strong that the vicar general allowed him to take minor orders on July 2, 1814, and to be ordained to the
priesthood the following year, saying, "The Church wants not only learned priests but, even more, holy ones."
He spent the next years as curate to Abbé Balley at Ecully until his mentor died in 1817. Early in 1818 he
was appointed as the parish priest of the tiny village of Ars-en-Dombes (population: 230). He stayed there until
he died 41 years later, and his effect was extraordinary. Ten years of patience, good example, and the
mysterious outpouring of Divine grace transformed Ars from apathy into a village thriving with Christian spirit.
He began personally visiting every household under his care and provided a regular catechism class for children.
More important were his offering of a personal example of purity and fervor and his boldly attack on the
widespread evils of drunkenness, profanity, immodesty, and slackness in attending Mass and otherwise observing
the Sabbath. He had no fear of uttering from the pulpit words and expressions that offended God in order to
ensure there was no misunderstanding as to what he was denouncing. He was constantly aware of his
responsibility for the souls of his parishioners and gradually there was conversion because his severity in the
pulpit was matched by his extraordinary insight and power of conversion in the confessional. His flock would
say, "Our pastor is a saint and we must obey him."
Two miracles helped the curé to gain the attention of his people. In 1824, John Vianney encouraged
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an institution known as La Providence, a shelter for orphans and deserted children. No one was ever turned
away from its doors and at times there were as many as 60 people living there, so that the alms on which
it depended for its existence were not always sufficient. One time the cook had only a few pounds of flour, but
thanks to the prayers of Vianney, she made ten 20-pound loaves out of them. On another occasion a loft that
had been almost empty was found to be full of wheat.
And soon the humble Curé d'Ars, whose reputation for holiness was augmented by reports of these miracles,
was attracting penitents from all parts of Europe. A shrine he built to Saint Philomena became a place of
pilgrimage. So great was his insight into people's problems that by 1855 the number of his visitors was said to
be 20,000 annually, and a special railroad booking office had to be opened in Lyons. Of course, Vianney's
success prompted jealousy among some of his brother priests, who accused him of being over-zealous, ignorant,
a charlatan, and mentally deranged and began spreading slanderous lies about him. These proved to be
without foundation, and their bishop, Monsignor Devie, answered them, "I wish, gentlemen, that all my clergy had
a touch of the same madness."
The number of visitors also meant a work day that would have crushed those with less spiritual strength. During
the winter months, Vianney spent up to 12 hours daily in the confessional; in the summer this increased to 16
hours. It could take a half-hour for him to move from the church to the rectory because of the density of the
crowd seeking his blessing and asking his prayers. He slept a bare four hours nightly and would go before sunrise
to hear the confessions of those who were already awaiting him in the church.
Countless people testified that Vianney was gifted with a remarkable ability to read souls, discernment of spirits,
and prophecy. The instructions that he gave were often short but they had all the power and insight of his
saintliness. His utter simplicity moved many. His discouraged fussy piety and gave pithy advice. The archbishop
of Auch said that Vianney had told him, "Love your clergy very much." And what more was necessary?
It is remarkable to consider that this man had desired to become a Carthusian and live in quiet contemplation, yet
in following God's plans for him, he drew many back to God and the Church. Three times he left Ars in search
of solitude, but returned each time to aid the sinners who sought him in ever-increasing numbers. The last
time required the diplomacy of the bishop to get him to return.
In 1852, Bishop Chalandon of Belley made Vianney an honorary canon of the chapter. He was invested almost
by force and never again wore the mozzetta. Indeed, he sold it for the 50 francs needed for some charitable
purpose. The French government in 1855 made him a knight of the Legion of Honor. John Vianney was
amazed. "Suppose I die," he mused, "and God says, 'Away you go. You have already been rewarded'." So he
refused to have the medal even pinned on his old cassock.
When the last sacraments were brought to him on his deathbed by Bishop Chalandon, John Vianney said, "How sad
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heavens; nature itself was upset at his passing (Attwater, Benedictines, Bentley, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Walsh).
Two short, very edifying, sermons on temptation by Saint John Vianney, who was often subjected to
diabolical attacks over a 30- year period:
Statue of Saint John Vianney in the Shrine of Ars, France.
We Are Nothing in Ourselves
Temptation is necessary to us to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves. Saint Augustine tells us that
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charity to forgive us. If we have the misfortune to fall so often into the snares of the devil, we set ourselves up
again too much on the strength of our own resolutions and promises and too little upon the strength of God. This
is very true.
"When we do nothing to be ashamed of, when everything is going along according to our wishes, we dare to
believe that nothing could make us fall. We forget our own nothingness and our utter weakness. We make the
most delightful protestations that we are ready to die rather than to allow ourselves to be conquered. We see
a splendid example of this in Saint Peter, who told our Lord that although all others might be scandalized in Him,
yet he would never deny Him.
"Alas! To show him how man, left to himself, is nothing at all, God made use, not of kings or princes or weapons,
but simply of the voice of a maidservant, who even appeared to speak to him in a very indifferent sort of way.
A moment ago, he was ready to die for Him, and now Peter protests that he does not even know Him, that he
does not know about whom they are speaking. To assure them even more vehemently that he does not know
Him, he swears an oath about it. Dear Lord, what we are capable of when we are left to ourselves!
"There are some who, in their own words, are envious of the saints who did great penances. They believe that
they could do as well. When we read the lives of some of the martyrs, we would, we think, be ready to suffer all
that they suffered for God; the moment is short-lived, we say, for an eternity of reward. But what does God do
to teach us to know ourselves or, rather, to know that we are nothing? This is all He does: He allows the devil
to come a little closer to us. Look at this Christian who a moment ago was quite envious of the hermit who
lived solely on roots and herbs and who made the stern resolution to treat his body as harshly. Alas! A
slight headache, a prick of a pin, makes him, as big and strong as he is, sorry for himself. He is very upset. He
cries with pain. A moment ago he would have been willing to do all the penances of the anchorites--and the
merest trifle makes him despair!
"Look at this other one, who seems to want to give his whole life for God, whose ardor all the torments there
are cannot damp. A tiny bit of scandal mongering . . . a word of calumny . . . even a slightly cold reception or a
small injustice done to him . . . a kindness returned by ingratitude . . . immediately gives birth in him to feelings
of hatred, of revenge, of dislike, to the point, often, of his never wishing to see his neighbor again or at least
of treating him coldly with an air which shows very plainly what is going on in his heart. And how many times is
this his waking thought, just as it was the thought that almost prevented him from sleeping? Alas, my dear
brethren, we are poor stuff, and we should count very little upon our good resolutions!"
Beware If You Have No Temptations
"Whom does the devil pursue most? Perhaps you are thinking that it must be those who are tempted most;
these would undoubtedly be the habitual drunkards, the scandalmongers, the immodest and shameless people
who wallow in moral filth, and the miser, who hoards in all sorts of ways. No, my dear brethren, no, it is not
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enough time in which to do evil, because the longer they live, the more their bad example will drag souls into
Hell. Indeed, if the devil had pursued this lewd and shameless old fellow too closely, he might have shortened
the latter's life by fifteen or twenty years, and he would not then have destroyed the virginity of that young girl
by plunging her into the unspeakable mire of his indecencies; he would not, again, have seduced that wife, nor
would he have taught his evil lessons to that young man, who will perhaps continue to practice them until his
death. If the devil had prompted this thief to rob on every occasion, he would long since have ended on the
scaffold and so he would not have induced his neighbor to follow his example. If the devil had urged this drunkard
to fill himself unceasingly with wine, he would long ago have perished in his debaucheries, instead of which, by
living longer, he has made many others like himself. If the devil had taken away the life of this musician, of
that dancehall owner, of this cabaret keeper, in some raid or scuffle, or on any other occasion, how many souls
would there be who, without these people, would not be damned and who now will be) Saint Augustine teaches
us that the devil does not bother these people very much; on the contrary, he despises them and spits upon them.

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Statue of Saint John Vianney in the Shrine of Ars, France.
"So, you will ask me, who then are the people most tempted? They are these, my friends; note them carefully.
The people most tempted are those who are ready, with the grace of God, to sacrifice everything for the salvation
of their poor souls, who renounce all those things which most people eagerly seek. It is not one devil only
who tempts them, but millions seek to entrap them.
"We are told that Saint Francis of Assisi and all his religious were gathered on an open plain, where they had
built little huts of rushes. Seeing the extraordinary penances which were being practiced, Saint Francis ordered
that all instruments of penance should be brought out, whereupon his religious produced them in bundles. At
this moment there was one young man to whom God gave the grace to see his guardian angel. On the one side
he saw all of these good religious, who could not satisfy their hunger for penance, and, on the other, his
guardian angel allowed him to see a gathering of eighteen thousand devils, who were holding counsel to see in
what way they could subvert these religious by temptation. One of the devils said: 'You do not understand this at
all. These religious are so humble; ah, what wonderful virtue, so detached from themselves, so attached to
God! They have a superior who leads them so well that it is impossible to succeed in winning them over. Let us
wait until their superior is dead, and then we shall try to introduce among them young people without vocations
who will bring about a certain slackening of spirit, and in this way we shall gain them.'
"A little further on, as he entered the town, he saw a devil, sitting by himself beside the gate into the town,
whose task was to tempt all of those who were inside. This saint asked his guardian angel why it was that in order
to tempt this group of religious there had been so many thousands of devils while for a whole town there was
but one--and that one sitting down. His good angel told him that the people of the town had not the same need
of temptations, that they had enough bad in themselves, while the religious were doing good despite all the
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"The first temptation, my dear brethren, which the devil tries on anyone who has begun to serve God better is in
the matter of human respect. He will no longer dare to be seen around; he will hide himself from those with
whom heretofore he had been mixing and pleasure seeking. If he should be told that he has changed a lot, he will
be ashamed of it! What people are going to say about him is continually in his mind, to the extent that he no
longer has enough courage to do good before other people. If the devil cannot get him back through human
respect, he will induce an extraordinary fear to possess him that his confessions are not good, that his confessor
does not understand him, that whatever he does will be all in vain, that he will be damned just the same, that he
will achieve the same result in the end by letting everything slide as by continuing to fight, because the occasions
of sin will prove too many for him.
"Why is it, my dear brethren, that when someone gives no thought at all to saving his soul, when he is living in
sin, he is not tempted in the slightest, but that as soon as he wants to change his life, in other words, as soon as
the desire to give his life to God comes to him, all Hell falls upon him? Listen to what Saint Augustine has to
say: 'Look at the way,' he tells us, 'in which the devil behaves towards the sinner. He acts like a jailer who has
a great many prisoners locked up in his prison but who, because he has the key in his pocket, is quite happy to
leave them, secure in the knowledge that they cannot get out. This is his way of dealing with the sinner who does
not consider the possibility of leaving his sin behind. He does not go to the trouble of tempting him. He looks
upon this as time wasted because not only is the sinner not thinking of leaving him, but the devil does not desire
to multiply his chains. It would be pointless, therefore, to tempt him. He allows him to live in peace, if, indeed, it
is possible to live in peace when one is in sin. He hides his state from the sinner as much as is possible until
death, when he then tries to paint a picture of his life so terrifying as to plunge him into despair. But with
anyone who has made up his mind to change his life, to give himself up to God, that is another thing altogether.'
"While Saint Augustine lived in sin and evil, he was not aware of anything by which he was tempted. He
believed himself to be at peace, as he tells us himself. But from the moment that he desired to turn his back
upon the devil, he had to struggle with him, even to the point of losing his breath in the fight. And that lasted for
five years. He wept the most bitter of tears and employed the most austere of penances: 'I argued with him,'
he says, 'in my chains. One day I thought myself victorious, the next I was prostrate on the earth again. This
cruel and stubborn war went on for five years. However, God gave me the grace to be victorious over my enemy.'
"You may see, too, the struggle which Saint Jerome endured when he desired to give himself to God and when
he had the thought of visiting the Holy Land. When he was in Rome, he conceived a new desire to work for
his salvation. Leaving Rome, he buried himself in a fearsome desert to give himself over to everything with which
his love of God could inspire him. Then the devil, who foresaw how greatly his conversion would affect
others, seemed to burst with fury and despair. There was not a single temptation that he spared him. I do not
believe that there is any saint who was as strongly tempted as he. This is how he wrote to one of his friends:

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Statue of Saint Philomena in the Shrine of Ars, France.
'My dear friend, I wish to confide in you about my affliction and the state to which the devil seeks to reduce me.
How many times in this vast solitude, which the heat of the sun makes insupportable, how many times the
pleasures of Rome have come to assail me! The sorrow and the bitterness with which my soul is filled cause
me, night and day, to shed floods of tears. I proceed to hide myself in the most isolated places to struggle with
my temptations and there to weep for my sins. My body is all disfigured and covered with a rough hair shirt. I
have no other bed than the naked ground and my only food is coarse roots and water, even in my illnesses. In
spite of all these rigors, my body still experiences thoughts of the squalid pleasures with which Rome is poisoned;
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desert to which I have condemned myself to avoid Hell, among these somber rocks, where I have no
other companions than the scorpions and the wild beasts, my spirit still burns my body, already dead before
myself, with an impure fire; the Devil still dares to offer it pleasures to taste. I behold myself so humiliated by
these temptations, the very thought of which makes me die with horror, and not knowing what further austerities
I should exert upon my body to attach it to God, that I throw myself on the ground at the foot of my crucifix,
bathing it with my tears, and when I can weep no more I pick up stones and beat my breast with them until
the blood comes out of my mouth, begging for mercy until the Lord takes pity upon me. Is there anyone who
can understand the misery of my state, desiring so ardently to please God and to love Him alone? Yet I see
myself constantly prone to offend Him. What sorrow this is for me! Help me, my dear friend, by the aid of
your prayers, so that I may be stronger in repelling the devil, who has sworn my eternal damnation.'
"These, my dear brethren, are the struggles to which God permits his great saints to be exposed. Alas, how we are
to be pitied if we are not fiercely harried by the devil! According to all appearances, we are the friends of the
devil: he lets us live in a false peace, he lulls us to sleep under the pretense that we have said some good
prayers, given some alms, that we have done less harm than others. According to our standard, my dear brethren,
if you were to ask, for instance, this pillar of the cabaret if the devil tempted him, he would answer quite simply
that nothing was bothering him at all. Ask this young girl, this daughter of vanity, what her struggles are like,
and she will tell you laughingly that she has none at all, that she does not even know what it is to be tempted.
There you see, my dear brethren, the most terrifying temptation of all, which is not to be tempted. There you see
the state of those whom the devil is preserving for Hell. If I dared, I would tell you that he takes good care not
to tempt or torment such people about their past lives, lest their eyes be opened to their sins.
"The greatest of all evils is not to be tempted because there are then grounds for believing that the devil looks
upon us as his property and that he is only awaiting our deaths to drag us into Hell. Nothing could be easier
to understand. Just consider the Christian who is trying, even in a small way, to save his soul. Everything around
him inclines him to evil; he can hardly lift his eyes without being tempted, in spite of all his prayers and
penances. And yet a hardened sinner, who for the past twenty years has been wallowing in sin, will tell you that he
is not tempted! So much the worse, my friend, so much the worse! That is precisely what should make you
tremble--that you do not know what temptations are. For to say that you are not tempted is like saying the devil
no longer exists or that he has lost all his rage against Christian souls. 'If you have no temptations,' Saint
Gregory tells us, 'it is because the devils are your friends, your leaders, and your shepherds. And by allowing you
to pass your poor life tranquilly, to the end of your days, they will drag you down into the depths.' Saint
Augustine tells us that the greatest temptation is not to have temptations because this means that one is a
person who has been rejected, abandoned by God, and left entirely in the grip of one's own passions."
JOHN MARY VIANNEY
Also known as
Cure of Ars; Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney; Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney; Jean-Baptiste Vianney; John Baptist
Vianney; John Vianney

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Farm hand who in his youth taught other children their prayers and catechism. Priest at age 30, though it
took several years study as he was not a very good student, and his Latin was terrible. Assigned to the parish of
Ars, a tiny village near Lyons, which suffered from very lax attendance; he began visiting his parishioners,
especially the sick and poor. Spent days in prayer, doing penance for his parishioners. Gifted with discernment

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of spirits, prophecy, hidden knowledge. Tormented by evil spirits, especially when he tried to get his 2-3 hours
of sleep each night. Thousands came to hear him preach, and to make their reconciliation because of his
reputation with penitents. Spent 40 years as the parish priest.
Born
1786 at Dardilly, Lyons, France
Died
4 August 1859
Canonized
1925
Name Meaning
God is gracious

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Statue of OUr Lady and Infant Lord in the Shrine of Ars, France.
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archdiocese of Dubuque Iowa, confessors, diocese of Kansas City
Kansas, priests
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All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in
the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone - for the good, and for the bad, for the poor
and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good.
Saint John Vianney
If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
Saint John Vianney
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
Saint John Vianney
I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the Cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.

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Saint John Vianney
You cannot please both God and the world at the same time, They are utterly opposed to each other in
their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.
Saint John Vianney
We must always choose the most perfect. Two good works present themselves to be done, one in favour of a
person we love, the other in favour of a person who has done us some harm. Well, we must give preference to
the latter.
Saint John Vianney
We should consider those moments spent before the Blessed Sacrament as the happiest of our lives.
Saint John Vianney
My little children, reflect on these words: the Christian's treasure is not on earth but in heaven. Our thoughts,
then, ought to be directed to where out treasure is. This is the glorious duty of man: to pray and to love. If you
pray and love, that is where a man's happiness lies.

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Prayer is nothing else but union with God. In this intimate union, God and the soul are fused together like two bits
of wax that no one can every pull apart. This union of god with a tiny creature is a lovely thing. It is a
happiness beyond understanding.
My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God.
Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer
never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we
pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.
Some men immerse themselves as deeply in prayer as fish in water, because they give themselves totally to God.
O, how I love these noble souls!
How unlike them we are! How often we come to church with no idea of what to do or what to ask for. And
yet, whenever we go to any human being, we know well enough why we go. And still worse, there are some
who seem to speak to the good God like this: "I will only say a couple of things to you, and then I will be rid of
you." I often think that when we come to adore the Lord, we would receive everything we ask for, if we would
ask with living faith and with a pure heart. from the catechetical instructions by Saint John Mary Vianny
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
Saint John Vianney
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Monday, January 5, 2009

Dearest Patti!
May love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, I am fine and keeping well. Life
here in Israel is not good for so many souls; people are dying each day by war. We have
some Catholic members in Gaza, they are suffering lot.
Please pray for the people of Israel, both Jews and Palestinian.
God loves all people; this is the land where Christ lived. Pray for the people who live in
Gaza, that there would be peace and the peace of Christ in their hearts and lives. Finally,
we have seventy-five new Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena members
if you can try to send us Rosary and Scapular; I will send you their list soon.
Union with Mary our Mother.
Bro. Fikremariam Philiops

Jerusalem
Israel
Dear Patti,
Bravo! Three Forex boxes received last Dec. 31, 2008. What a huge gift we received on this
Christmas season.
We right away turnover these two tabernacles and various vestments to our Episcopal vicar
“Monsignor Jose Wilson Mendoza" together with our St. Philomena chaplain Rev. Fr. Johnny
Lagdamen just this morning Jan. 5, 2008.
They expresses there heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the donors, and the benefactors of
these valuable things, which surely they could not afford.
All they could say are their fervent prayers and thanksgiving masses they could ever offer
to all of you there and most specially to the director of the living rosary your Honorable
Patti Melvin.
Two tabernacles and various vestments were received by them. As soon as they will have
their clergy meeting by the second week of January,2009, they will shared these vestments
and they plan to give these two tabernacles to parishes without these things and other
various vestments.
May Our Lady of the Holy Rosary and St. Philomena, Patroness of the Living Rosary and the
Princess of Paradise shower to us more graces and more abundance of good health that we
can continue our apostolate work and reaches out our mission to every corner of the world.
Love & Prayer
Carmelita G. Baric
San Carlos City
Negros Occidental
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Dear Patti,
Thank you for your prayers for us here in the Holy Land. It is peaceful here in Jerusalem
but we could feel the tension and the uneasiness of the Palestinians and the Israelis. I feel
sorry for the Gazan’s who have been trapped by their Hamas leaders. They have nowhere
to go. There are some 150 Roman Catholic families in Gaza. A few years ago, their school
and church were destroyed by the Hamas. One 16 year old Roman Catholic teenager,
Christine, just died of shock when a bomb hit a neighboring house.
The Apostolic Delegate of Jerusalem and Papal Nuncio in Israel, (two titles but one person)
Msgr. A. F., and our entourage were not allowed to go to Gaza last November and
December. I don't want to comment on politics.
We would appreciate if you could continue praying for peace and justice in the Holy Land.
Prayerful best wishes,

Fr. Ang.
Jerusalem
Israel
Dear Mrs. Melvin,
I am sorry, I could not write you earlier. It was because I went to Karachi; I returned from
there on 22nd. Then I got busy in Christmas preparations. I prepared a crib in the chapel.
After Christmas Apostolic Nunciature in Pakistan Rt. Rev. Adolfo Tito Yllana came to
Sargodha. I went to see him. On 1st of January (in the evening) I went to Jhelum and
returned from there last night. I therefore was very busy.
I sent you some lists before Christmas and then some copies of newsletters. It was printed
late due to certain factors; I got ill many times having hypertension, then there is a
deficiency of electricity, my laptop was also and still is out of order and I had to do the
work again, I was busy in my tours also. Our electricity problem disturbs us a lot; one
cannot say when they will put off or then put on the electricity, we were getting electricity
for about 4 hours in 24 hours.
But now I am preparing the newsletter for Jan-March 2009 and trying to once again make
the routine smooth. So, I will get it printed within this month.
We have arranged our 3rd annual Rosary Conference at Sukkur from 19-21st of February.
Invitations have been sent to all the promoters and some priests. Please pray for the
conference.
OK, Good Bye and God Bless You, with prayers and many happy wishes for this new year
for you, your team, your family and all of the benefactors,

Pakistan
Saturday, January 3, 2009

Dear Patti,
Happy New Year, I have just arrived in Yei town from the Boarder with Congo.
So sad, I wish you could also log on www.bbc.com to hear the suffering in Congo, a combined
army of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan wound up Kony rebels from the North East of
South Sudan in vain! They bombed villages to steam Kony out of his hiding; fleeing rebels
hacked to death and burnt every home along their flight route towards Central Africa
republic!!!!!! Stories of children and women forced into burning bushes! I have got the
opportunity of treating burnt survivors with holy oils, MM and rosaries sent to internally
displaced refuges. Christmas and New Year’s Eve were not good for me, so bad, with sights
of machete girls with missing breasts!! I tell you, satan is hassling heavily!
I cant write much now, I am rushing to another parish 16km on a motorcycle, I cant wait
much because its a dangerous route, beyond this time the motorcycle doesn’t allow to go
there.
I pray that you deposit another part of the funds on Monday, things are expensive. Nearly
doubled costs due to global crisis!
I would wish you to pack some more rosaries about 1,500 of the luminous type, medals
etc. Send to my address, the good man George will pick to send the tings to me and funds!
Hear from you on Monday
E. K.
ULRA Liaison
Uganda
Friday, January 2, 2009

Dear Mother Patti,
On the behalf of the members and promoters of the living Rosary, I wish you and all the
staff of Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena (ULRA) a very happy New
Year.
Here are some photos (see below) taken today at a Mass celebrated by a Carmelite father,
Rev. Fr. Leger Marie.
Below is Fr. Leger Marie's testimony made on January 1, 2009, at the occasion of Mary,
Mother of God.
The Carmelite Father, Rev. Fr. Leger Marie told us that he was saved by the Scapular from
a very serious accident after celebrating a Mass with a Bishop of Ndume-Abong Bang in the
East Region of Cameroon last December 12,2008. He said he was in comma for 3 days.
He continued by saying that there was no doubt in his mind that it was Our Lady of Mount
Carmel that had saved him from such accident.
He went on to say that Our Lady is very much nearer to any of her child wearing the
Scapular. All she needs from us the Fr. continued is to live a chaste life.
Training and formation for those to be invested with the Scapular shall begin in February,
2009.
During the celebration, twenty new members were invested with the Scapular.
I shall send lists and some photos via the post.
Ave Maria!
Paul E.
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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Dear Patti,
I think as St. Philomena obtains and works out the complete healing of the other parts of
my life, she's been giving me little encouraging gifts each year along the way. Notice the
pattern:
In 2006, I wrote a letter to Saint Philomena, and she obtained my congestive heart failure
healing a month later.
In 2007, I gave her relic almost two dozen kisses in gratitude and affection, and she
immediately changed my chaplet to golden.
In 2008, I was thinking of her earthly life and the paucity of evidence associated with it,
suggesting since she knows where it all lays, that she should show us where it is, and 3
months later that 3rd century Greek letter marble inscription with her name on it is spotted
on a church wall in Rome while my sister is standing present.
2009 - Recently I had been wondering what special thing she was planning for me in the
coming year. I even mentioned my thoughts aloud to my sister on Tuesday. Later that
same evening, I was at my parish Christmas party, and this deacon (in training to become
a priest-- the very same one who had been traveling around the country with his exhibit of
a who's who of the saints' relics) comes up and asks me right out if I would be interested in
playing host in my home for a week or two to the first-class relic of St. Philomena that he
has in his collection.
He says it may take him a week or two first to unpack his boxes at our church’s priory
before he will get her to me. I asked him if, with his connections, it would be possible for
him to obtain another first class relic of St. Philomena (a bit of her bone) for me personally,
and he responded very enthusiastically to the idea.
So, it seems that this year St. Philomena is coming to stay with me for a while, if not come
live with me in a very special way in my very own home, if that's her plan (I might have to
start keeping better house). If Saint Philomena is trying to keep me close for life, she's
doing a most excellent job of it.

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Henry Bludau
(Henry is a well-know and much beloved devotee of St. Philomena, long-time member of
the Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena as well as the Universal
Archconfraternity of St. Philomena and you can see the many photos of his world travels to
all places significant to the Blessed Pauline Jaricot, Saint John Vianney and Saint
Philomena, that he has sent us in our Sightings section of this website.)
December 20 - 21, 2007

Visit to Sargodha, Pakistan.
Pakistan
December 10 - 18, 2007

Visit to Jesus Nasri Church at Nasrat
Colony, Pakistan.
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Visit to Stella Mars Church at PAF Creek,

Pakistan.
Visit to Our Lady of Lourdes Church at

Christian Town, Pakistan.

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Visit to St. Francis Church at Qayyumabab,

Pakistan.

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Visit to St. Monica School at Zia Colony,

Pakistan.
Visit to St. Francis Xavier High School,

Qayyumabab, Pakistan.

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Visit to Mariam Magdalene Church at

Haideri Town, Pakistan.
Visit to St. Monica Church Zia Colony,

Pakistan.

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Visit to Arooj-e-Mariam Church at Korangi

No. 1, Pakistan.
Visit to St. James Church at Korangi

(Bhatai Colony), Pakistan.

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Visit to St Francis Xavier High School,

Qayyumabab, Pakistan.
December 8 - 9, 2007
Visit to Shorkot, Pakistan.
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November 16 - 20, 2007

Visit to Karachi, Pakistan, from November 16 through November 20, 2007.

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

This is the picture of the front of St Philomena's Church in Lansdowne, PA - capturing the
main altar & the two side altars (Mary's on the left and St Philomena's on the right. Also,
if you look closely at the mural painted behind the main altar - St Philomena is to the left
of the center crucifixion depiction & St John Vianney is to the right of the center
crucifixion depiction. St John Vianney is painted standing outside his confessional pointing
over to St Philomena.
Ana Pharmat
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Fr. Jojo as working in China and is a Claretian priest.
He has been a member of the Universal Living Rosary Association since his seminary days.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Fifty members of Living Rosary Association from Buchach, Ukraine, came to Lviv in order
to participate in the retreat for the members of Living Rosary. During the retreat 25
visitors were enrolled to the Living Rosary and were happy to join the Living Rosary
Association.
I also send you testimonials of miracles from Ukraine. (see below images, below)
Ivan Koldiji

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Glory to Jesus Christ!

I would like to testify about the great miracle which took place in my life. I had very
terrible health problem with my teeth. After the tooth surgery I felt very terrible pain in
my tooth. I took many strong pills and remedies but everything was in vain. Then I
remained about the oil of saint Philomena. When I oiled the tooth with the oil of saint
Philomena and prayed the chapel to this saint the pain has been gone. It took already half
year after I started to pray to saint Philomena and uses the oil but I don’t feel the pain
and is very happy that I got this oil from the Universal Living Rosary Association of saint
Philomena. Recently I saw my dentist and he was very surprised to hear that I didn’t
remove my tooth but I told him that I am cured!
Also week ago I was traveling by the train to Lviv. One woman approached me with small
child and asked me to help her . The child was crying and had very terrible stress. I
started to pray the chapel to saint Philomena and used the oil of the saint Philomena. Also
at the end of the conversation I gave the mother of the child the cord of saint Philomena
and suggested to pray the Living Rosary decade every day. From this time we became
very good friends and this child is growing very well and is behaving very well. I thank to
God and saint Philomena for giving me and many rosary a lot of blessings and graces.
п. Mariya
city. Morshyn
I am the member of Living Rosary for many years and I want to testify that this is so
wonderful to be the part of Universal Living Rosary and have devotion to saint Philomena.
I had a pain in my back and kidneys. The pills and suggestions of the doctors were
useless until I started to pray the Novena to saint Philomena and used the oil, cord of this
miraculous saint. When I finished the Novena I fell much better and the pain has been
gone. I express the thanks and deepest gratitude for the gift of the healing which I
experienced in my life.
Mrs. Мariya Styrzyk
v. Hrymne
My friend was enrolled to the brotherhood “Living Rosary”. Recently She had terrible
stroke, and must use a lot of pills and visit the doctor very often but her conditions were
getting worst and worst every day. Then I suggested her to join the Universal Living
Rosary and ask to pray for her needs and intentions. Then this woman joined the Living
Rosary and prayed very diligently to Virgin Mary and saint Philomena who became very

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dear and special for her. After couples days her doctor told her that miraculously escaped
very terrible stroke to which her body has inclination. She is very grateful to God and
Virgin Mary, saint Philomena for the healing and improving her health and conditions.
Now this woman enrolled to Living Rosary many new members as the gift of love for the
protection and healing.
Mrs. Mary
village. Holon
My name is Halyna. Almost three years I am the member of Universal Living Rosary
Association. I had very strong devotion to Living Rosary and saint Philomena during these
years. My life was very blessed and I felt in the special way that God is watching over me
and my life but I had very heavy cross in my life. My husband didn’t practice his Catholic
faith. He is very high ranking position in the government and was educated and during
the Communist time when it was forbidden to learn about God and Virgin Mary. I cannot
blame him because when I insisted then we visited the Church together and baptized our
children. A week ago many strange events took place in our life. When he was traveling to
our home village drunk man collided his car and his car was all destroyed. He was saved
miraculously. The next week my husband was driving to work in the morning and he got
other car accident that the car in which he was driving was completely smashed and
destroyed. He was admitted to the clinic and undertook surgeries. His conditions were so
terrible and in dangers that I was thinking that he will not survive. I started to pray to
saint Philomena very hard the week before two terrible car accidents. I prayed Novena
and asked him to join the Living Rosary. This was the first time when he accepted my
words and was very attentive to my spiritual advises which I tried to convince him to
become the member of Living Rosary. Now my husband is in the intensive care room and
his conditions are improving very rapidly, I and my husband are convinced that saint
Philomena and my devotion to Living Rosary association helped my husband survive and
in future to walk and conduct normal life. In Ukraine are very terrible roads and many
drivers drive very aggressively. The fines for the danger driving are very law and
miserable and therefore many drivers take advantages not to observe the rules of the
safety driving. The roads are very small and have a lot of digs and dumpy. Therefore
every day almost 70 rosary die in the car accidents. There are some good roads but the
driving culture is so law that many rosary die in the high speed roads in Ukraine as well.
Mrs. Halyna
Ivano – Frankyvska region.
Glory to Jesus Christ!
I want to share with you about miracle which took place in my life. I am very grateful to
God that I joined the Living Rosary. The membership in the Living Rosary helped me to
overcome the lost of my beloved my mother and daughter. When my mother and
daughter died in the one year then I decided that it is time to change my life and to find
the meaning of my life. I started to read the spiritual books and newspapers, attended the
Sacred Masses and to think about the meaning of my life. Then in the Church I fount the
newspaper of Living Rosary and started to read it very carefully. After reading of this
newspaper I joined the Living Rosary and started to pray the Dedicated Decades and wear
the cord of saint Philomena. The membership in the Living Rosary helps me to overcome
the sickness of my neck because I use the oil of saint Philomena and sickness is not
progressing. Also I love to read the newspapers Voice of Living Rosary because it gives
me the spiritual nourishment and excellent Catholic teaching. Also My husband two my
children joined the Living Rosary and we pray to Virgin Mary and saint Philomena. It is
pity that I learned about the Living Rosary so late. I cannot imagine how many blessing
and graces I would received if I became the member of Living Rosary from coming of LR
to Ukraine in the first day.
Mrs. Hanna
town. Hyrnyk
Recently in Western Ukraine very terrible flooding took place. Many rosary lost their
homes and even 40 rosary died. Our village is located in very dangerous place because
four rivers go around our village. The rivers are river Bystrycia, Tysmenytisam Trudnitsia
and Rybchanka. During the terrible flooding which destroyed almost 1,000 homes and
almost 2,000 kilometers of roads our village which was located in very vulnerable and
dangerous zone was rescued by saint Philomena and Living Rosary. During the flooding
and terrible rains which took place the first time during the history of village all the
members of Living Rosary and members of parish community prayed very hard to saint
Philomena and we very convinced that saint Philomena saved our lives and homes and
gardens. Saint Philomena heard our prayers and our village was saved. The villages in
our district suffered terribly but our was rescued by the devotion to Living Rosary and
saint Philomena
Mrs. Yaroslava Kopach
village. Horodyvka
Greetings from Arun.

This is to THANK YOU SO MUCH for your generosity and great service to further the catholic faith especially the
devotion of Rosary.
My rector was surprised to see the parcel. He is from New York and he appreciated your commitment to the
devotion of rosary it’s spreading all over the world.
I met the prisoners of the second jail and gave them a few with special permission from the person in charge.
They gave me their names and gave the cards along with the rosaries to them. I shall be visiting the parish next
Sunday and I shall ask someone to click the photos to send them to you. I delayed the email for I don't have a
personal camera. I've to wait for the person to click or lend it to me.
Thanks once again and I shall do the needful.
Praying for you,
With much love and prayers

Arun SJ
Fr Arun Kumar SJ
Jesuit Residence
Ateneo de Manila University
Katipunan Road, Loyola Heights
1108 Quezon City, Philippines

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Today we had a seminar with Cardinal John Njue of Nairobi, he brought some group of
rosary to give seminar and the topic was Venable Pauline Jaricot of Lyon on Pontifical
Mission Society, Propagation of Faith! They spoke well of Venable Pauline they distributed
her life history to about 100 priest today! Her life and zeal for soul touched hundreds of
priest!
I will send you a copy by the time I will post about 3,000 new names!
Ave Maria
Akoth Joan Omore

Kitale
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Greetings form Luba city. Her are some Pictures with children of Saint Philomena.
These are the Children who teach me Spanish everyday here in LUBA. They have this
message for you: “We are happy to know a Saint of almost our age.
"We are too small to take up decades now because after playing, we may forget.
However, we have medals on our necks sign of the protection of Our Lady and our
Little Saint.
Our Parents have been registered with the Universal Living Rosary Association of St.
Philomena and they are going to teach us.”
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Be my salvation.

Jude Thaddeus Langeh Basebang, cmf
Misioneros Claretianos
Apatado 37, LUBA
Bioko Sur
Equatorial Guinea
Central Africa.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Greetings from Australia. I am writing to acknowledge the receipt of the parcel. Your
support is extremely well received by all of us here in Beagle Bay Mission, and I would go
so far as to say that your actions are having an extremely positive impact on the morality
and spiritual life of all the parishioners and children. As I sit here, my parishioners are out
praying the rosary. They are all in working extremely hard to ensure we do our obligation
to the best of our ability. Thanks a million for helping me to spread the good news here in
Australia.
I am happy to inform you that another new group of St Philomena was officially planted
and blessed here in Beagle Bay on the Feast of our Blessed Mother Mary. I will send some
more photos later on.
Be assured of my prayers for you and the members.
Fr. Daniel Kilala

Beagle Bay Mission
Australia
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Praised be now and forever the name of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. AVE MARIA!
You cannot imagine how you make us happy this Sunday. Your message really touch
our hearts. I thank God for that. All our sisters here in the Philippines commit themselves
to pray for all of you and your family, and for whole St. Philomena organization. May God
continue to bless your work & that He may send more generous rosary to support your
touching apostolate.
We are just organizing a group of children from the slum area, we name them "CHILDREN
OF MARY" and we are really surprised to realize that St. Philomena is the patron of the
children of Mary. What a consequence! What a joy!
With much joy and prayer,
Sr. Maria Corazon Lendio

Mindanao Ave., Ayala Alabang Vill., Muntinlupa City
1780 Philippines

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Tomorrow I am going to have the meeting with the pastor of the parish which is located
near Lviv. This is very huge parish where almost 5,000 families belong. I would like to ask
him to launch the Living Rosary in his parish and I would like to ask him to distribute our
newspapers. It is very important because when the rosary read our newspapers then they
wish to launch the Living Rosary in their parish immediately therefore the newspaper
became very powerful tool in the spreading of Living Rosary. Yesterday the priest from
Berezany called him and told me that he wants to start the Living Rosary group in his
parish and he learned about our organization by newspaper.
Also I would like to ask you to send me 20 bottles of the oil of saint Philomena for future
distribution in Ukraine.
During the retreat I pray very hard for You, Living Rosary and financial support of LR in
this most important time with the prayers and respect,
Father Ivan KOlodiy
Ukraine
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

I am Rev. Fr. Paul N. Labordo, presently assigned as assistant pastor in the Parish of St.
John the Baptist, Goa, Camarines Sur, Philippines: Archdiocese of Nueva Caceres. Since I
was assigned in this parish, I created a group called the Fellowship of St. Philomena. I
invited children and youth to become members of this fellowship. The objective of the
creation of this group is to simply propagate devotion to St. Philomena, devotion to Mary
through the Holy Rosary and for the children and youth to feel the presence of Jesus
through the church where they belong.
We gather every Sunday morning from 9:00 to 11:00 AM; we pray, we give values and
spiritual formation and we initiate interactive games for them. Last August 11, 2008, the
Feast Day of St. Philomena, we celebrated our first year anniversary. We had our
fellowship games, Holy Mass and procession. Indeed, the members of the fellowship have
been so active and participative. More so, as we give more honor in St. Philomena, we
will be staging a musical play of her life. As of now, we are busy practicing. I am so happy
that I could see the enthusiasm of the children and of the youth of our parish.
Thus, I wrote to you because I want to officially enroll them to the Living Rosary
Association and on the same way may we request from your good office holy rosaries,
medals and other religious paraphernalia which I could distribute to them. I would greatly
appreciate your support for us. Please send your gifts in this address:
THE FELLOWSHIP OF ST. PHILOMENA

c/o REV. FR. PAUL N. LABORDO
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH
GOA, CAMARINES SUR
PHILIPPINES
Thank you so much. May God bless you.
Sincerely in Christ Jesus,
REV. FR. PAUL N. LABORDO
Monday, August 11, 2008

Mansura Shrine, Louisiana

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Dearest mother Patti
I wish you happy feast of our patroness and lovely Saint Philomena, to your dear family,
dear team, dear mom, all our dear benefactors and members. We celebrated on August
10th the feast of Saint Philomena, with a father who did the mass and a sister who take
care of about a two hundred of children, youth and their parents. We offer the
sacramentals of Saint Philomena and of Our Lady and the sweets and drinks in the end of
the feast It was wonderful, all was happy and gave thanks to Our Lady, Saint Philomena
and to you dear mother and to our dear benefactors. I send you now some photos and
the others tomorrow.
Two boxes are arrived today, I will collect them .Thank you very much, we send you our
love, gratitude and prayers. Ave Maria.
Your little son, slave of the Immaculata: John Kayrouz.
Lebanon

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Dear Patti,
How delighted I was to receive my first package from you on the feast of St. Frances Xavier
Cabrini whose shrine on Golden, CO. we had recently visited in December. She is known as
the missionary to the immigrants as well as missionary to the world. I am reading about
her now and I feel that she has truly taken a personal interest in our work. The unexpected
arrival of so much missionary materials at this time was to me a "signal grace."
Today I attended the first meeting of our Legion of Mary since I had received the materials
and it was decided to send you the money that was in our treasury, which is a humble sum
according to the rules of the organization. What you sent to us is priceless, however,
because of the good it will bring to souls and the glory it will give to God and His Holy
Mother. I was especially glad to see some Spanish literature on the Green Scapular and the
blue Mysteries leaflets.
Most of the people in our group do not work with Hispanics, so we will be sharing this
material with several of the Spanish-speaking praesidia in the Southwest area. Perhaps
someone there will begin to collect names for the Living Rosary Association. Generally what
we ask is auxiliary membership to the Legion which entails saying the entire rosary every
day. The L.R. just requires one decade. That would be a start to many for whom the Rosary
is an entirely new devotion.
As it is written in one of your leaflets: "La Caridad no es sentimiento--¡Es servicio!"
Let us pray for one another,
In Their Hearts,
Lucy H.
Golden, Colorado, United States
Dear and Loving Sr. Patti,

We, the Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena (ULRA) Associates,
Promoters and Core Group members in India, wish you, Br. Richard Melvin, Sr.
Emerentiana and all staff members Of Universal Centre a very Graceful, peaceful and
fruitful New Year.
We thank God for you and for all your encouragements, prayers Support and counseling to
the promotion of ULRA mission In India and tons of Sacramentals shipped to India.
We assure our continual prayers for all your intentions, strong health and long life for
successful mission of Universal Living Rosary Association.
I received the letter of Orissa State Rourkela Bishops letters. Yes, you are 100% correct.
People try to exploit at the tears, sufferings and martyrdom of innocent people!
With kindest regards and prayers
Kjroche
India
St. Sylvester, born in Rome, was ordained by Pope St. Marcellinus during the peace that
preceded the persecutions of Diocletian. He passed through those days of terror, witnessed
the abdication of Diocletian and Maximian, and saw the triumph of Constantine in the year
312. Two years later he succeeded St. Melchiades as Bishop of Rome. In the same year, he
sent four legates to represent him at the great Council of the Western Church, held at
Aries. He confirmed it's decision and imparted them to the Church.
The Council of Nice was assembled during his reign, in the year 325, but not being able to
assist at it in person, on account of his great age, he sent his legates, who headed the list
of subscribers to its decrees, preceding the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch. St.
Sylvester was Pope for twenty-four years and eleven months. He died in the year 335. His
Feast Day is December 31st.
The connection between our protectress, St. Philomena and St. Sylvester is the Catacombs
of Priscilla. St. Sylvester build his basilica over the section of the catacombs where the
most important martyrs were buried, which includes St. Philomena.
Please click here to open and read a document which is an excerpt from a book which details the
Catacombs of Priscilla and the Basilica of St. Sylvester
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

It was nice to read your DEDICATED DECADES of May 2007.
I belong to Catholic religious family and I am the promoter of it.
I love Rosary and scapulars too.
I will always keep to you in my special prayers and requests the same for me and my
family.
May God Bless you all!

With Love & Assurance of Prayers!
Truly in Christ Jesus & Marry!
Roderick Sajeel Ilyas
Pakistan

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Dear Patti,
I am sure you had a very wonderful Christmas. It was quite beautiful here with some good
rains; and to crown it all, on 27th December, we had Mass in our new Home and Rev. Fr.
Gazana blessed the house first before he celebrated mass. It was fantastic.
Thank you I got your mail last week.
Patti, on the New Years Day, members of St. Philomena will have the Way of the Cross on
Michiru Mountain which will be led by Rev. Fr. Alfred Nsope. I don't know if I will make it
because I have problems with my knees, they don’t carry me, so going up hill is a very big
problem. I can only walk with no difficulty on a flat place.
May our Lord Jesus Christ and Mother Mary, lead you into the new year with all the
blessings you need, spiritually and physically. "Happy & Prosperous New Year".
Yours in the Immaculata and St. Philomena, the Wonder-Worker.
Veronica Chimbaka
Malawi
South Africa
Dear Patti,
Thanks for the nice note, yes I had a quite Christmas amid intense heat, but meant a lot.
I was with the suffering Sudanese that have only heard of Christmas celebrated in other
places, it’s still not yet taken much here because of the reverberating war icons that are
still on.
I am sad to inform you that there is a terrible piece of news from the DR, Congo's north
East! More than two hundred people are believed to have been hacked to death by fleeing
Kony rebels
We are not very far from this area, but we need your prayers to stop this evil.
Once again thanks for the good wishes,
Emma
Africa
Monday, December 29, 2008

Dear sr. Patti,
I am attaching some of my ordination photos. I will definitely do my best for the spread of
the Living Rosary.
As bro. Roche suggested, I will celebrate a special holy mass every month on 10th and I
have already plan it out to have a promoters meeting on 10th of March.
I will further let you know later in detail. Everyday as celebrate the holy masses I
remember all the Universal Living Rosary Association members and promoters and all the
benefactors all over the world.
I am really happy to be a part of this universal family for the triumph of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary.
My best wishes for the New Year 2009.with love, prayers and blessings,
Rev. Fr. A. Uthayadas

Andrew
Sri Lanka

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Dear Mrs. Melvin
Blessings of the Christmas Season to you and family.

. in Fish Hoek, South Africa and she so kindly enrolled me into The Living Rosary. I am
enrolled in Rosary No 252298 and the assigned decade is The Coronation. I do hope that
you have my details and that I have been enrolled properly to gain all the Indulgences
necessary.
At home here I have been making Rosaries, for the different Repositories which are
attached to the Churches. Also providing them with booklets, How to Pray the Rosary,
Scapular booklets with their Scapulars and various booklets to preserve the Catholic Faith
in souls. My cousin told me that she and her husband enrolled many many years ago. As I
am so involved in the Rosary since 2000, I would very much like to promote the Living
Rosary. I am a Traditional Catholic. Have been bold and made copies from the details on
your website for the purpose of spreading this Devotion. Would it be acceptable to you?
Please may I receive the Banking Details as I see no mention of that on your website.
As I prefer to be directly linked to your Association, and spread it as that, I have only given
The Universal Living Rosary Association details in Texas on the copies made.
Awaiting your due reply,
Yours faithfully,
Mary Ro.,
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
South Africa
Dear Director,
Happy Christmas and New Year 2009. I do pray that come next year God will enable us
reach many, and multiply our discipleship.
This is to give thanks to the Lord for what you sent to me. Thanks for, Holy water from
River Jordan, please, send me more, the members were happy as I sprinkled it to them
all, drop per drop.
The apostolic letter from our late Maurice Cardinal Otunga permitting Mary Ndung'u to carry
out the spread of Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena (ULRA) in my
country - 1994. Thanks too for the Ten Commandments and the Courtship prayer. I will
give the prayer to the families that are going to renew their Matrimonial vows tomorrow
being the Holy Family day. Thanks for the camera it is already over I will develop it with the
help you send though I have not received it yet. I pray to God that it will reach me in good
time. I am unable to name to you all, but get our gratitude as members of ULRA.
Young kids are being healed through their devotion to the MM metal and that of saint
Philomena. I get all these sharing from what their parents are experiencing. They term it as
a miracle in their families.
Pray for me as I leave to Uganda on Monday that I may accomplish the mission well in the
Lord.
Thanks a lot. You are a gift in my spiritual life. Pray that I and my ULRA members here in
Kenya may remain faithful to God's work.
Thanks, Ave Maria.

Bravo.
Yours,
Br. Chrispinus Masika Wachiye,

Faith Deaf Orphanage Education Centre,
(FDOEC)
Kenya

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Thank you so much for seeing me how to enter in the web. and see the photos and others,
it is a wonderful web, wonderful site, I can see the work and the activities of the other
centers and members, how is wonderful the Cathedral of Saint Philomena in India, we do
not have like this in Lebanon like a cathedral, I like this cathedral so much, thank you so
much for your love to the photos, I will prepare another after the feasts of the new year.
I will go to the monastery of Our Lady to go from there to the other places , during
Christmas, I was with my sister Najat together with one family to close to us, they have
two children, we prayed the most of the time, take a modest dinner, we prayed to you so
much and to all our dear benefactors, to Saint Philomena ,Our Lady and the Infant
Jesus to bless you and all of us in this new year, every day my love to Our Lady grow more
and more, I prayed to my dear mom to be with Our Lady in the sky, this is my hope, I felt
little sad because of the no presence of my mom with us.
I hope that she feasts the Christmas with Our Lady .Thank you for all your love, support,
encouragement, prayers, you are all in my heart, and I put you all in the Immaculate Heart
of Mary. I send you my love and prayers.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Your little son, slave of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
John Kayrouz
Lebanon
Friday, December 26, 2008

Please Click Here for Extracts from Letters of Support from Bishops in the Ukraine and Elsewhere
around the World
Special Appeal from Patti Melvin:

Here is a sweet and devoted priest in Australia caring for the outcasts and the poor. He
hails from Tanzania. His mother has a serious eye surgery needed in order to save her
sight……. we watch and pray, share and ask.
If you wish to help Fr. Daniel with his mother's medical expenses, please make a donation
to us and we will Western Union the funds directly to him.
Thanks for helping us do this.
AVE MARIA!
Patti,
Thanks for your mail which I got shortly after the Christmas midnight mass. To be honest
with you I really appreciate your deep concerned for my mother's state of health. As
regards the bill, the surgical operation will cost $550 and already I have raised $200. The
down payment before the operation can be carried out is $400. My mother’s name is
Agnes; please kindly remember her in your prayers. I will begin the novena to St. Raphael
later today. I wish you a joyous Christmas celebration. May God bless you Patti
Fr. Daniel Igono
Dear Mother Patti,
on the behalf of the promoters and members of the Universal Living Rosary Association
(ULRA) Cameroon, I wish to thank you and all the staff of the ULRA for all your support and
encouragement for the Year 2008, which is coming to an end.
I wish to promise total commitment and loyalty for better Apostolate for the coming year,
2009.
Mother, you should note that without your untiring support and encouragement our little
effort will come to nothing.
These worries keep me backward in acting accordingly. But the good-news is that following
the partial authorization from the Archbishop of Yaounde mid of this year, I assure you that
things will absolutely be different this coming Year.
Moreso, since I had been able to cover the whole of the ten (10) Regions of Cameroon,
there is no doubt in my mind that the Year, 2009, will be a Year of Triumph for the ULRA,
to us the members and most importantly for Jesus and Mary.
On the other hand, a box arrived today thru DHL. Thanks for the calendar, Dedicated
Decades Magazines, Rosaries and posters. You can't imagine that members have started
requesting for the calendar.
I will be sending some lists and photos in the next few weeks. Hope the two separate lists
and photos arrived.
On the behalf of all our members and promoters, I wish you and all your staff a very
prosperous New Year, 2009.
Paul E. Ekpe
Yaounde-Cameroon
Africa

Bravo mum!!!! You are wonderful!
I am on the way to a parish village for Christmas! I will give the Universal Living Rosary Association of St.
Philomena (ULRA) members rosaries, children cloths etc!
I got the first small box with brown scapular without written words, new booklets, and other things! We appreciate
all! Viva Patti!!!
Again yesterday two more boxes arrived with two beautiful crucifixes, sacred service box or sick call box, small
crosses, beautiful rosaries in the bag, wonderful relics of St. Anthony of Padua I love them, incense, candles, many
blue rosaries, new year 2009 calendars, I am going with some of them for Christmas to share with the poor in the
village! You are wonderful mother! Your caring for me makes me shed tears of joy of a sign of our heavenly mother!
I told them in the mass this morning that I am a happy priest and I have a mother Patti who is like Mary to me!! A
hug for Christmas for you! I will promise you mother I will keep my purity intact like St. Dominic and St.
Philomena… that is my power... a lot of priests mess up their vocation with the so-called nuns, I pray for them to
know that the gifts of priesthood is the greatest! By the grace of god I will leave a holy live till death!
We thank you for all the wonderful support for ULRA mission this year 2008 and we hope again that next year will
be again so wonderful!
My message for you during this Christmas is that "St. Philomena is powerful with god in heaven and on earth"!
Our dedicated decade and prayer of rosary makes us happy! I say more than 15 decades everyday!
This is my best spiritual Christmas! I had time to meditate about the coming of our savior in our hearts just as he

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came and took flesh in the heart of Mary and any soul that makes way for him he comes again, may he be born
again in our hearts! Be blessed mum! I love you as my mum!
Viva Patti
happy Christmas and new year 2009
Ave Maria
Fr. Patrick Mary Filomena
Kenya
Dear Patti,
thanks for the note, I m so happy that you know how things move, I will tell George
William Ssenyonga the good man to pay my landlord, thanks indeed.
I am just here in town I came from the Congo-Sudan boarder where we are seeing
humanity at stake, people suffering from the engagement that is involving Uganda-Congo
and South Sudan forces in the name of flushing out Kony rebels from the forests of North-
East part of the Vasy country.
I have come here in Yei town from Lasu parish at the Congo boarder to have some foods so
that I can celebrate my feast day tomorrow. May you have the best of Christmas and I will
remember you all in my poor prayers tomorrow.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL SEND MY REGARDS TO EVERYONE.
E. K.
Universal Living Rosary Association (ULRA) Liaison
Uganda
Thank you so much for your love and support to me and the Living Rosary here, our lovely
association.
I tried since two days to send you the photos through the net, but nobody know how to
send, because I was in a village, now I returned back to the city, so I will send them today.
You will see the photos below of a very nice convent of Our Lady.
They put it in use of me and my helper in the Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena,
there is no priest or any brothers at the convent which is very near of Syria, and there is
only an old woman who does the cooking (kitchen).
It is an old monastery, more than a hundred years old. We will use this convent to do our
Living Rosary work in that region that is new and very far of the center here.
you see dear mother Our Lady open to us a new doors, places, and there we can reach to
the Christian villages and preach them.
I wish you a very holy feast, the Nativity of Our Lord the Infant Jesus, to you and dear
family, mom, staff, our dear benefactors, especially Dr. Thomas and his family, to Mrs. Liza
and her family, to your dear country, people and all the Universal Living Rosary Association
members in all the world, may the Infant Jesus bring to us with his Holy Mother, the peace
and salvation, love, and joy.
I send you my love and prayers.
Ave Maria.
Your little son, slave of the Immaculata

John Kayrouz
Lebanon

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Dear Director Patti,
Thanks so much for your reply...I really would like to contact Teresita so I can see her when I will visit my family in
Cebu and maybe, we can share our experience in promoting the Universal Living Rosary, and the story of St.
Philomena. I'm looking forward to see her.
I'm really happy for the Rosaries (you sent)...It really moves people to pray...I ask the Lord to bless everyone who
receives it so that our place, our country and the whole world will be filled with people praying the Rosary, and
become closer to God. Thanks for your great effort, thanks to you because you are open to God and to His will. I
read the leaflets you sent me. I appreciate you and your husband for having such a big heart for God. I cannot
imagine your home to be look like a storage...that's for God!
I also saw the picture of Fr. Valabek (in his younger age). He must love Universal Living Rosary Association of St.
Philomena (ULRA) so much! He taught us a course on "MARIA" when I was in Rome and he often mentions ULRA.
Thanks be to God I met ULRA now in faith. I also pray for his soul when I prayed my decade.
Sr. Maria Corazon A. Lendio
Muntinlupa City
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From Rome Italy,
I send you my Love and wishes in The Name of Jesus, God made flesh for us through The
Virgin Mary and in the care of St. Joseph.
I ask JESUS to bless you and all who are dear to you. May The Love of Our Father, Who
sent us His only Son through The Holy Spirit, bring you PEACE and JOY.
May all the Saints and Angels bring you closer to Jesus Whose humble birth makes it
possible for us to Love Him more--and to Love one another more! Think how Mary spent
her Christmas with Jesus as she held Him, embraced Him, talked to Him, sang to Him,
marveled at Him and told Him how happy she was to have Him—like all mothers do when
they look at their new born baby. Then she joyfully shared Jesus with everyone!
Merry Christmas and happy, Prosperous New Year full of God's blessings.
God Bless You All.
Deogratias.
Merry Christmas from the Universal Living Rosary Association
Merry Christmas from the Ukraine
Saint Philomena Booklet
A blessed Christmas and a Christ-filled New Year to ULRA!
Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena (ULRA) has truly touched peoples'
hearts! I thank God for this! I distributed the rosaries to different groups with the help of
my co sisters. People in the jail were so happy to have such gift from St. Philomena.
Domestic helpers felt the same. People in the squatters’ area were so thankful. I shared the
rosaries to different places I traveled in the Philippines. I'm also glad to know that many
are already devoted to ULRA and know St. Philomena.
I have a lot of enrollment papers to send after Christmas.
I also receive rosaries together with the enrollment sheets I sent, through Theresa Alier
from Bantayan, Cebu. But I'm so sorry to have lost her complete address. I will be glad if I
can have her address.
Thank so much.
Sr. Maria Corazon Lendio, DVMI

Philippines
Merry Christmas from the Philippines
Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena , Sr. Maria Corazon

Lendio, DVMI, Philippines.
Dear Patti,
How are you? I am fine.
I am pleased to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. May Our Lady,
through her patroness and our helper St. Philomena pray for us.
Many thanks for the parcel of sacramentals and booklets I have just received. The
materials act as a source of grace and encouragement. I have shared them to the prisoners
at Zomba Central Hospital and other people. I will be sending a list of those newly enrolled
as member in the Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena.
Fr Innocent Chiwanda Gama

Zomba
Malawi

Dear Patti
I hope this finds you well. Thanks for your email from two weeks ago. Yes please do send some holy
oils of St. Philomena and anything that you can lay your hands on. Thanks also for your prayers because they keep
us going on... without your prayers, I do not think we would have made it this far.
Each new day is worse than the previous day.... it gets harder each day but with God's grace...we are managing.
Can you imagine that its less than 72 hours from Christmas and there is no food in the house...yet we are not
panicking....its so peaceful in the house...all we say is Your Will be done Lord. Patti, you must have seen it coming,
the articles you sent sometime back are making sense now...they prepared us for these days, articles like "The art
of suffering ", " Trustful surrender to Divine providence", etc. Now we know what it is like to suffer...and yet not be
bitter about it....not to complain about it. It is not easy...but with God's grace we are managing.
Please keep on praying for our country because so many things are happening. People are disappearing in broad
daylight, kidnappings by state security agents....cholera....hunger...intimidation...fear...are the order of the day.
The Church has been silenced. We are anticipating the gloomiest Christmas in living memory...

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Have a blessed Christmas and God love you. You are remembered in our poor prayers.
Zimbabwe
Pious Exercises of the Living Rosary
Gregorian Sacred Masses for all the Benefactors
Dearest Mrs. Patti,
The Living Rosary Ukraine is offering for you and Living Rosary members and Benefactors.
From this December until I will be in charge of Living Rosary Ukraine I promise you that we
are going to arrange at the beginning of every month 30 Sacred Masses for our alive
Benefactors of Living Rosary and other priest will celebrate 30 Sacred Masses for all the
reposed Benefactors and Members of Living Rosary. These two Sets will be celebrated
every month and you can feature the information in the newspaper of Dedicated Decades.
We will cover all the expenses with these two priests and May it be our gift from Ukraine.
Let to deliver this information to all the Benefactors and all the people who you care about.
With the prayers and respect,
Father Ivan Kolodiy

Ukraine
Photos below from Universal Living Rosary Association, Lebanon Center

John Kayrouz
P.O. Box 397
Ghadir-Jounieh
Lebanon

Holy Ghost Litany
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Dear Mrs. Patti,
Greetings. We are in the Archdiocese of Yaoundé and it has always been our wish to have the Universal Living
Rosary Association of Saint Philomena recognized in the Diocese. This year with the publication of the Liturgical
Calendar of the Archdiocese for Year B, precisely among the Spiritual Groups (Rosaire de Jésus ou de Marie), Le
Rosaire Vivant de Sainte Philomène is the 44th Association in the Diocese out of the 67 listed. A Circular was also
sent to the parishes to name a chaplain and to recognize the group. I thought Paul had already told you. In my next
posting, I will try to send you a photocopy of it.
We thank God for this. AVE MARIA
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Be my salvation.

Théologat Clarétain
Republic of Cameroon

Dear Patti,
I am safe, its so hot but what I am worried of is the force being used by a combination of Ugandan, South Sudan
rebel and D.R. Congo soldiers who are currently acting under the umbrella of flushing out Kony rebels from the
northeast of the dense forested D.R. Congo where the Uganda authoritative regime claim that Kony rebels fled to
the area.
I am currently in Assumption parish where I help to dress the refuges! It’s as bad as what I saw on the Goma side
300kms south of here.
I purposely came from the Congo Sudan boarder to communicate to you so that you can be briefed of my situation.
Pray for the Congolese. Rape is a weapon used for fighting and all soldiers are doing it??
Meanwhile, I am informed that the raid has not resulted in any positive results yet.
I will return to the border tomorrow, its late, I am now in Yei town where there is internet, 35kms east.
E. K.
Kampala
Uganda
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Message from Ukraine Universal Living Rosary Center, Miraculous Medals
Greetings from Anthony Foster Oduro, St. Philomena's House, St. Peter's Cathedral Basilica, Ghana

Pax Tecum!
Dear Mrs. Patti, Melvin;
I am very much happy together with my wife and children that once again, we received another box containing
Rosaries, printed notes, pamphlets from the Universal Living Rosary Association for distribution in our parish. We
received them just yesterday, December 16, 2008.
Today my wife has started the distribution to our Brothers and Sisters in Servant Communities, Catholic Charismatic
Movement of which I am the Presiding Head Servant and to other Catholic faithful who are willing to accept the
devotion. We are very thankful once again to our God almighty who chose us to be his instruments of spreading
His power thru this devotion and of course to you for sending to us those sacred items.
Same as usual we will send the list of new Living Rosary Association members as soon as it will be distributed.
Let us go hand in hand in doing the mission of Jesus in this World to bring salvation to humanity.
May the Blessed Virgin Mary with the help of St. Philomena would bless you abundantly and give a persevering
heart.

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Thank You very much, more power, Merry Christmas and have a blessed New Year 2009.
In Jesus and Mary!
Bro. Jelson Doloredo Bangoy

Philippines

Dear Patti,
We are happy that Emma is now in Sudan, we happened to talk with him on satellite phone and he is fine, he told
us the good news of his doctor’s check-up that his blood is perfectly clean and he had the malaria treatment.
He decided to start with the diocese of Yei in the south west of Wau, I am informed that there is heavy fighting in N
E Congo, the rebel’s army engaged with Uganda, Sudan and Congo armies, we are told that he is in the parish of
assumption near the Congo boarder, that he is dressing some of the fleeing refuges!
That is good work, was timely visit, we have nothing to say here in Wau, we wanted him to be here first but he
found the issue in Yei more crucial.
Pray for us and each other, we love and pray for you.
Louis
Sudan

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Universal Living Rosary Pakistan Newsletter, April - June 2008

Dearest Mrs. Patti,
I would like to send you some pictures for Living Rosary. I send you the pictures from Ukraine - city Berezany which
has 35 000 inhabitants. in this city was launched Living Rosary and the priest and members of Living Rosary from
Berezany sent me us these pictures. It is very active and dynamic, holy community of Living Rosary.
See photos below.
With the prayers and respect father.
Ivan Kolodiy
Ukraine
The youth who are part of the children play who has strong devotion to saint Philomena
and they are teaching the performance about life of saint Philomena. They perforce the
Christmas play for handicap children with the prayers and respect father Ivan Kolodiy.
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The members of Living Rosary Sokal, Ukraine.
The children from village Yablunka, Ukraine.
The members Universal Living Rosary Association from Zalichyky, Ukraine.
The living rosary group - Ivano - Frankyvsk.

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Dear Patti,
Thanks for your prayers, I arrived safely on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, I am now from a prison here in
Yei, I decided to start with Yei from where I will go to the other dioceses.
I am safe despite the intense heat, oh! Sleeping inside a permanent house is difficult, so hot, even huts are hot, and
at night lodging officials lay our beds outside in the bamboo fenced compound for a safer night sleep.
Greetings to everyone there,
Emma
ULRA Liaison
Uganda
Dear Patti,
I have taken long to write you.
I do tell you that what you promised us that Emma would be amongst us on the 8th of
December. Was exactly true, thanks for this gift for us, and more opportunity, we decided
to start with Yei diocese for this Christmas!!!!!!!!! We are so thankful, many in other
dioceses had claimed and wanted him to be in Rumbek and Wau, but God did a miracle for
us. Yes we are happy; he arrived on the afternoon of the feast of the Immaculate
Conception! Excitingly, he is so strong, immediately he arrived; he wanted to visit some
communities the parish priest of Christ the King requested him humbly to rest because he
came from a long journey
We thank you for him, he is at work he visited a prison today!
We love you all from Yei diocese South Sudan; the sunshine is so much that animals might
die! Pray for us all
V. O.
Sudan

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Dear Mum, Patti Melvin,
Loving greetings from Fr. EmiliRaj, Pathikonda, A.P India.
Today I have received the gift rosaries. I am so glad. In a special way I thank you and I
pray for you and for your team of ULRA. I will send you the reports later.
I take this opportunity to wish you very Joyful Christmas and Happy New Year - 2009.
Be sure of our Prayers for you. Kindly remember us in your Prayers.
Thanks a lot
Fr. Emiliraj
India

Dearest Patti,
I thank you enormously for the Prayer for Courage.
God bless you always!!!
You can not image how power gives this to me...
Looking round at everything what is happen here and what is follow (because the communists are united to make a
strong communist Government, re-baptized democrat social, I can understand how MUCH they have AFRAID of our
weapons; the rosary, the miraculous medal, the scapular, the crucifix and all this treasure for us.
The enemy of Jesus is sick of fear in front of a poor, an old retired woman, a young person etc. if they are protected
by a Rosary, a Crucifix etc. That's why they use the most sophisticated methods to find out what they speak, why
they meet, where are given the Rosaries, who is involved, how to destroy the relations between the missionary and
the people, etc. They use for this many persons to follow Christians much more than for terrorists, paid by State
and voluntaries. They use also cars, mobile telephones, including photo cameras!
I tell you this just to realize once again the power of the ROSARY!!!! And so many people do not use it. Only this
can save any country by any tragedy. If we are many...
Thank you again for all your help and prayers. I will translate today the prayer of St. Joan of Arc; "I Fear Nothing,
For God Is with Me!"
We love you very much!
Ave Maria!
Monica
Romania

Oh wonderful!
A good news for us a statue of St. Philomena! Bravo! Thank You!
Weekend was full of activities for Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena (ULRA) members!
We celebrated Immaculate Conception as a group, all promoters and some members were in my new house! They
were all giving testimonies of the power of St. Philomena! St Philomena is powerful in heaven and on earth!
For the first time after 7 years of promoting Universal Living Rosary Association in Kenya I invited the members in a
new tentative chapel I made for a while so beautiful, I called it "St. Philomena and Immaculata Chapel", we
celebrated together on last Saturday "A Dream Come True", with all members, I instructed them, they know one
another, they were indeed happy that we have a home in Kenya for St. Philomena at last! Bravo Patti!
After I went to St. Joseph parish far, I said two masses and then a group invited me on Sunday evening for mass in
Limuru and I was weak but I made it, enrolled them, gave them scapulars etc they were so happy that they said I
will come again soon! All are miracles of St. Philomena and Immaculata!
You will get the photos today! I am posting them with names! Also I gave a handicap a small girl and others- your
cloths Christmas gifts, they were all happy! If you have small girls wears send me again!
I need stickers of St. Philomena!
The car is out!! Wonderful! You will get the photos now! Bravo mum!!!! Viva!!
My congregation has given me permission to put the Universal Living Rosary Association office in the new place!
A priest I met this morning suggested to me to buy sea ship containers, one is about 500 dollars, if we get them we
divide them and use them for office, libraries, stores and they are irons and strong, can be converted to rooms!
I am going to the post office now!
Viva Patti
Ave Maria

Kenya

Universal Living Rosary India Newsletter, November - December 2008
Dear Patti
Thanks for the small packet you sent on October 15, I got it six weeks later...that's a
miracle because our postal service has crumbled. Its takes up to four months to get an air
parcel from Europe nowadays. Patti, our country has finally crumbled. Just when we
thought we had seen the worst.... something more evil comes up. Right now as I am
writing to you all major hospitals have closed down due to lack of equipment or drugs or
staff. A cholera outbreak which started in August has killed over 600 people (..Thus the
official lie... over a thousand people has died as a result of this disease). Dozens people are
dying daily in my area. Only God knows how we have survived this pandemic. Inflation is
officially pegged at 231 million percent, but independent analysts say its over a trillion
percent. On Thursday last week a loaf of bread was going for Z$2 million, in the afternoon
it was Z$10 million and Friday it was Z$12 million.... I never bothered to check the price
today, it probably Z$15 million or Z$20 million (revalued currency hello, put back 10 zeroes
they removed in August and you will see the real value of bread in Zimbabwe.
The government all along was denying that the cholera situation is a national emergency...
only to ask for medicines and body bags last week..... There is no food in the country. Patti,
we are suffering.
The Church is silent.
God love you Patti. Our prayers are with you. Please pray for us. Please send sacramentals
whenever you can.
A.K.
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Dear Patti,
I am relieved by your note, thanks indeed, I happy to learn that the envelope from the
recent visit to Congo arrived; you can do some posing for some of the photos. Yes I hope
the new camera will serve me well! Its intense sunshine here, Oh! I don’t know how it is in
Sudan now! May I wish you the best for the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
I have finished with packing, and only one bag that was for repair will be packed shortly.
In the early morning, I will be taken to the airport by a former rebel in the SPLA that is
controlling the south of Sudan, I will remember you all, I do love everyone, pray for me as
I will do at every inch of my three months journeying. The weather will be harsh but we
have to fight for Mother Mary!
I will communicate as soon as it will be possible, for now this is the last in Uganda.
God Bless.
Emmanuel
ULRA Liaison
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Pakistan Universal Living Rosary Association Newsletter - July to September 2008
Dear Patti,
Yes I got the money order, but I could not reply immediately because I had to take an
emergency trip to Jos to see if I can assist the Christian community in that part of the
country were religious crisis broke out between the Islamists and the Christians (mostly
Catholics) last week. More than 400 people lost their lives and they had a mass burial. The
scene is a terrible one and that place is under watch by heavily armed military personnel.
I almost got into trouble when I mistakenly ran into the wrong place but for the timely
intervention of the army, I left unharmed but my materials (sacramentals, my camera and
my traveling bag were not that lucky as they were burnt).
How did it all begin? There was a local Government election last week on Thursday and
because a Christian was declared the winner in one of the local government areas of the
state, the Muslims started killing the Christians and they went into a radio studio and killed
a lady who at that time was reading the news. The Christians then went for a reprisal
attack and the whole thing became very bloody. The Pope even said a prayer for the people
of Jos.
Now, the fight may just spread to other part of the country and that is why we here in
Nigeria seriously need your prayers. The other day, I talked about the election in America
were there were no problems at all but here, it is always a different story to tell. May God
help us.
Thank you for the money order in the envelope, I got it and it will go a long way in
assisting me to claim the boxes at the post office when the come. Maybe I will get them
next week by God’s grace.
For the Living Rosary Association, I will go anywhere; do anything to continue to spread the
devotion of St. Philomena. Now I have lost the amazing pictures I took at Jos and would
have to pay for the camera I collected from a friend but despite this, I will never give up
just the same way I didn't give up in Turkey. For me, the battle has just begun. Please
continue to pray for me and Nigeria because I would have been one of the victims that lost
their lives but with your prayers and support, I know that will never is my portion.
Thank you and May God bless you.
Yours servant in Christ,
Michael A.
Abuja
Nigeria
Dear Living Rosary Association,
Hi, my name is Dustin Wiese. About 2 and 1/2 years ago, I was directed to your website
from theholyrosary.org when I was looking to get a free rosary. Not only did I receive a
rosary, but a wealth of other information from your organization, including a Chaplet of St.
Philomena (and the directions of what to say with it), a few various prayer cards, a brown
scapular, a small vial of blessed oil, a few small plastic medals, a list of the prayers to say
with the rosary, and various other cards and small booklets. I loved this wonderful gift I
received and it fueled a small curiosity and desire that I had in my heart to investigate the
Catholic faith. Since that time in spring of 2006, I'm happy to say that I have been
confirmed into the Catholic Church (April of this year) and am now a full member! I get
discouraged at times and tempted by my old Mormon faith (especially being in Utah), but I
really love the Catholic Church and can't see things any
other way now.
I would love to become a member of your organization if I can afford it. I always meant to
respond back to the wonderful letter I got from a very nice lady there (it may have been
your director? not sure), but never got around to it. At least it got my curiosity going
though!
I am also writing you today to ask for your help in replacing the items from you that were
lost in a recent move. My friend was helping me pack, and to make a long story short, all
but one item (a small rope) I received from you were donated to my local Catholic thrift
shop, and by the time I noticed the mistake weeks later, all the items had been sold. I'm
glad I helped out the Church thrift shop and hopefully helped someone strengthen there
faith, but I'm terribly bummed that I lost all the great stuff I received from you guys and a
few other Catholic keepsakes I had. Would you possibly be able to send me another one of
these invaluable information packets? Regardless, I would be more than happy to make a
modest donation to you when I'm able to (likely later this month). I'd love to give you a
large amount of money, but unfortunately I'm a rather impoverished college student. I'd
appreciate anything you could spare. I especially loved and
cherished the chaplet of St. Philomena! I will be happy to pay for anything if required.
I apologize for not taking better care of the wonderful items that you sent me that really
fueled my desire and curiosity to look into the Church, and I appreciate your time in
reading this (overly) lengthy email! Please let me know either way if you can help me out
or not. I will leave my shipping address for anything you could give me below. Thanks
again. I sincerely appreciate it!
Faith in Christ

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Dustin Wiese
Cedar City, Utah
United States

Dear Patti,
I just wanted to thank you once again for your generosity in sending materials when I
request them. I was able to send most of the last shipment that you sent to Sister Laura
through the cargo company that is newly formed that I spoke with you about. I think it will
gladden your heart that I sent the majority of the materials to the largest Seminary for
educating priests in Nicaragua, where a good friend of mine teaches. These young men
(140 of them) will be doing a mission in the mountains of Nicaragua during their Christmas
break. They will take these materials that you sent in order to do that mission.
The rest of the materials I will take with me when I go for a medical mission on January 1,
2009.
Patti, I am grateful for your zeal and love with which you always respond to our requests.
May you and your family have a lovely and peaceful Christmas.
Blessings,
Debra
South Carolina
United States
Dear Mrs. Patti,
Thank You so much for the parcel which arrived today, rather I got it though it arrived
yesterday.
I've kept the parcel to the bishop. When I shared this news with my rector who might be
leaving to USA soon, he was happy and said that I meet the bishop of Manila in the coming
days. So I shall meet the bishop in whose territory we reside.
I'm sorry I'm unable to send the photo since I couldn't find a priest who has a camera.
Being the first Friday I offered mass for the college boys and girls whose faith is very
shallow. Some laughed among themselves as I gave the talk and few really agreed to
dedicate themselves for the daily decades. It really pathetic to notice that the faith is
uncared for by the youth here.
May I know what the status of masses is? If there are some conditions besides the Latin
language, please let me know. What else? I hope you are getting ready for the Christmas.
By the way I see a lot of Filipinos involved in rosary association. Could you address us all
once before I leave to India? You could even hold a series of lectures in our university and
in some of the parishes. I could arrange for it.
Praying for you

Arun SJ
Philippines
Thanks mum! The money you sent has arrived! Bravo!
I need rosaries and other sacramentals! Demand here is too much!
I have invited all the promoters and members of the Universal Living Rosary Association of
Saint Philomena tomorrow for 10:00 a.m. mass and training sessions, other members and
new ones are also invited, I will buy few seats, also I will get a local tabernacle for
adoration and thanks for the monstrant, we use it tomorrow for adoration and we shall
honor our lady of Fatima’s message ...that masses will be celebrated in special way on
every first Saturday of month!
Bravo!!
Viva Mum
Ave Maria

Kenya

+ J.M.J. +
Dear Patti Melvin:
The Peace of Christ!
I am Michael U. Henson, a Catholic ex-seminarian and an active member of our Parish in

Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. I am presently working at Pampanga Agricultural
College where our students are children of our farmers in Magalang, Pampanga and nearby
towns.
It was with great joy that I received some information about Saint Philomena whom I got
to know since I was a seminarian. I love her and I believe that from heaven, she leads and
guides us all to Mary and to Jesus. Her name which means "Child of Light" is a message of
hope in itself-that we may become the "Salt and Light of Christ in our world."
I believe with all my heart that it is our Dear Philomena who has inspired me to begin a
Universal Living Rosary in our school. Unfortunately, despite the fact that it is situated in
the province of Pampanga-a very Catholic and Marian province in the Philippines, there are
no established religious instructions and organizations in our school-it being a state college.
The sadder part is, that the Catholic faith is being left out by non-Catholic sects and
denominations. But God's champion, to whom nothing is refused, St. Philomena has come
to help us to defend the rights of Holy Mother Church and our Catholic Faith.
With the approval of our Institute Dean, I have begun the "dry run" stage of St.
Philomena's project (HERS NOT MINE!). It is called "pass the bag". The bag contains
images of Mama Mary and St. Philomena and a Crucifix, and a lot of Catechetical Materials
like lives of the Saints which were generously given to us by benevolent Religious
Congregations. The bag will stay with a student for four days after which it will be passed
on to another student until everybody in the class has been visited by St. Philomena, Mama
Mary and Jesus.
Please pray that St. Philomena's project will be a success. I'm sure it is a good way to
satiate the hunger of our students for God's word. We also need your support, any
information or material-ESPECIALLY A RELIC OF ST. PHILOMENA AND VEN. PAULINE
JARICOT-which you think might be helpful for St. Philomena's project in PAC will be greatly
appreciated. I opted to chose and begin St. Philomena's project with only a few students. I
believe that like the Widow's mite in the Gospels, anything little and small,-as long as it is
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faithful, will turn out acceptable as an offering to God. Later on, if it pleases God, St.
Philomena will expand her work in out scool.
I am ending my letter for now but I do hope we could keep in touch. Soon, I will send you a
list of our students who are willing to take up a decade of the rosary as members of the
Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena.
Thank you and May God bless you and your cause.
In God's love,
Michael U. Henson
Marisol Village, Angeles City
2009 Philippines
SANTA FILUMENA, IPANALANGIN MU CAMI!

(In our Capampangan language, it is "St. Filumena, pray for us!")
Dear Mrs. Patti Melvin,
We, Rev. Sr. Emmanuela Mbake and Ms. Masika Mahamba Mwamini, from Butembo Beni
Diocese, and leaders of the Living Rosary Association of Sainte Philomène, have the joy to
send you this report as we express our sincere thanks for the rosaries, medals, images,
scapulars and oil of Saint Philomena we received some times back.
We reassure you that we have always been happy to receive and distribute the above items
to the members. Our number is increasing especially during this time of war in the eastern
part of our country, where our diocese of Butembo-Beni is located; the intercession of
Sainte Philomène is necessary more than before. Many Catholics have expressed interest in
this association. In our diocese, the Virgin Mary is an important figure in our faith, and
many groups of the youth (Marian priests, Legionary of Mary, Charismatic movement,
scouts, Evelytes, Agnes du ceil, croisés, Kiro...) pray the rosary on a daily basis, most of
them wish to pray with us. Hence we need images, oil, cords, medals, scapulars, etc. Many
have realized that with Sainte Philomène, nothing is denied, and that Sainte Philomène is a
great listener like our guardian angels, when one takes with himself or herself the cord or
image of Sainte Philomène. She is a good protector against the devil. Scapulars as well are
very important and very effective against satanic possession. We put on our scapular and
cord with faith and devotion.
Attached are some photos (see link below) of some of the faithful members of the Living
Rosary, they cherish very much our Sainte Philomène despite the extreme poverty in our
area and the situation of war, they help one another, they assist sick people by providing
firewood, they have also understood the value and importance of adoring the Holy
Sacrament. For our procession with all the adults of the village, and others, we need a bid
statue of the Madonna, our Lady of Fatima, or Rosa mistica, or any other you can find for
us. 50cm..
So far we are 41 members who have made a vow of faithfulness in the Living Rosary
Association of Sainte Philomène.
- On 13January 2007, it was in our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mukuna: 25 members
among them a religious nun (Sr. Emmanuela), a religious brother, a diocesan priest, and a
Carmelite priest. The professed members take up leadership in the group.
- On 13 January 2008: 16 lay people in our Butembo cathedral parish.

For the 13 January 2009, it will be in Bunyuka Parish and 20 people are preparing
themselves to take the wow of faithfulness. For them and the new members we renew our
request for scapulars, medals, oil, cords, and some books in French and Kiswahili about the
devotion to Sainte Philomène and Venerable Pauline Jaricot.
Our meeting at a diocesan level is held every first Thursday of the month at our Lady of
Mount Carmel parish, Mukuna, and the meetings at the parish level are held the second
Thursday or Friday of the month.
For the sanctuary of Sainte Philomène in our Diocese, the diocesan committee has found a
plot which is not yet paid.
Finally, once again, allow us to reiterate our sincere thanks for all we have already received
for love and a sign of friendship that unites us in Jesus Christ.
May the Virgin Mary and our own Sainte Philomène, by the power of their intercession,
continue to keeps us united.
Sincere greetings to you, Mrs. Patti Melvin, and all the members of the Living Rosary.
Sr. Emmanuela Mbake (Oblate de l'Assomption)

Ms Masika Mahamba Mwamini
Congo
Uganda
Link to photos with captions >>>
Mum, these are photos from Bungoma Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint
Philomena (ULRA) mission, first Fr. Patrick preaching the decade with authority, children
were looking at me with admiration!!
The members were visited in their villages, so poor but happy with the decade!!
They live in poor grass roof houses like Nazareth!!
Fr. Patrick on bicycle looking for souls!!
Also Fr. Patrick on the motorbike going to spread the decade!!
Then Sr. Bibian with poor destitute and children, with Fr. Patrick, others were in their
villages, we visited them with the poor chrispinus, gave them hope and decade, I
encouraged them! Other photos you get them tomorrow, am posting them soon!
Bravo Patti
Viva!!
Ave Maria

Kenya

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details
Dear Patti,
Last Dec 1 (Mon) there was a Diocesan Prayer Assembly here in our place, San Carlos City
against Reproductive Health Bill which is basically promoted by United Nations. However, as
we all knew (I think you are also acquainted with this or probably I am just too presuming)
the provisions of this bill are contrary to our Catholic faith and doctrine thus the Catholic
Church here really make a stand against it. As of now the Bill is still in the Congress for
deliberation that will be enacted into law if this will be approved.
The whole day activity was indeed very successful participated by all church organizations
from different sectors which include not only the youth but also the senior citizens from
different places (members of the Diocese only). Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint
Philomena (ULRA), being a member of the church also support the Church’s causes and
endeavors in whatever way it can.
After the Walk for a Cause, there was also a concelebrated mass and a short informative
talk by a resource speaker in the field of medicine who is also well verse in the content of
the provisions which is really contrary to our Catholic faith and to our Filipino culture/
orientation.
According to Msgr. Jose Wilson Mendoza and Bishop Jose Advencula, on behalf of the whole
Diocese THANK YOU VERY MUCH for all the support you have extended to them. Indeed,
one of the biggest chalices, ceburium is now being use in the ST. Charles Borromeo
Cathedral, the one received by Msgr. Jose Wilson Mendoza. Our cathedral cannot also buy it
readily because of other important priorities that call for immediate attention. As of now,
one of their immediate important needs is a copy of the latest edition of lectionary and
sacramentary. They have been trying to scout the Phil market but to no avail.
Attached (see photo below) is the picture of the Prayer Rally. Unfortunately, only one copy
was taken clearly. The rest of the 25 pictures were very blurred due to overexposure to
light, it was 10:00 a.m. and the sun started to be at its peak heat.
GOD bless us all.

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San Carlos City
Philippines
Dearest Mrs. Patti,
I send you the lists of all the new members here in the Ukraine in the Universal Living
Rosary Association of Saint Philomena for October and November. Please officially register
them and send me back to our center in Ukraine and I will distribute their cards to them.
Also I would like to inform you that this month I am going to publish 10,000 copies of the
newspaper "The Voice of Living Rosary". There is very huge interest to the newspaper and
we need to add one thousand copies of the newspaper. Probably you will see that the
number of new members is increasing. The newspaper is helping us to enroll more new
members. Also I spoke to the woman who is making the Scapulars and she told me that
she is ready to give us a discount and to make the Scapulars for 0.30 cents per one
scapular. Therefore the price is 0.30 cents per one scapular.
Also I would like to ask you to let me know if you get the notes of Sacred Masses which I
sent you a week ago you will receive them today or tomorrow morning therefore please let
me know if you get them and I am looking forward to hear from you and May God bless
you and our staff of Living Rosary with the prayers and respect father Ivan Kolodiy.
Father Ivan Kolodiy

Ukraine
Click here for new Ukraine ULRA members for October 2008
Click here for new Ukraine ULRA members for November 2008
Advent Message from the Universal Living Rosary

Association of Saint Philomena

Dear Patti Melvin,
Thanking, Greeting and wishing you at this Christmas Season and throughout the New
Year. May you be blessed with every grace, health and happiness in the coming year.
Regards to the assigned decades and the guidelines to follow: Would you kindly clarify for
me when mailing to you in our completed each month: - Whether we have to mail only our
new members or we have to mail also our old members in the lists?
There are two groups of the members in the Living Rosary Association under me. The first
group of the members are the Seminarians who are now scattering and it is rather
hard to reorganize them, but I do believe that they are faithful to their assigned decades as
I do. Another group of the members are all the Legion of Mary in Loikaw. These groups of
the members in the Living Rosary are not only faithful to their decades, but also
encouraging people to have great devotion to Our Blessed Virgin Mary. Every Saturday they
go from house to house and say the Holy Rosary for the sick and the dying. They have their
leader or president Mr. Francis Nireh who is also one of the chief office bearers in the
Pastoral Center. I ask him to communicate you directly and hope he will do sooner or later.
Thanking, Greeting and wishing you and all our members of the Living Rosary Association
of St. Philomena at the Christmas Season and throughout the New Year. May all of you be
blessed with every grace and peace.
United with you, in Mary our Mother of Perpetual Help.

Fr. Paul Maphroi
Myanmar
Dearest Patti
My computer is caput again. (Maybe because it was the electoral campaigned or because
somebody wanted to see my pictures...) The last evening the computer was take from our
house for investigations. Now is at home but broken. It is necessary more than $50 to
repair it.
Please let me know when the envelope arrived at you.
Thank you very much for two stipends. God reward you abundantly.
I received five little parcels from Ruth but I think one with little statues for priests was
disappeared...I expect an answer from Ruth.
In our country the communists are the winners...again. We are ready to offer to our Lord
again our persecution for the conversion of our country and. yours and all countries. This is
our fight and we are in our place to do our duty for our Queen Mary and Jesus Our Savior.
We send you our love and we pray for you.

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Romania

Dear Mrs. Patti,
Greetings from Yaoundé. I received the boxes from UPS and from the Post Office today.
Thanks a great deal. As usual, it was not easy with the customs. We established a fixed
amount at 5000FCFA (about 12USD) per box. I have paid and collected already. Thanks a
great deal for the box. I am so grateful. The apostolate continues drop by drop. Some
sacramentals have been sent to Edea Diocese to commence the Immaculata there. Please
pray seriously for this foundation. It is a deacon by name Rev. Alain-Jules Mbarga who is
carrying out the apostolate there. Thanks and God bless you.

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Republic of Cameroon,
Central Africa
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Dear Patti,
One of the extremely foolish things that I have done in my life, I can remember was driving
while very tired. As a result I fell asleep, driving. It was absolutely frightening.
Thank God, but the fellow next to me started calling out, "Daniel, Daniel". I opened my eyes,
always a good thing to do when driving, and I saw that I was headed towards oncoming
traffic. I veered the car back in my lane. I pulled over and let someone else drive. I was lucky
to be alive, a thought shared at the time by the other fellows in the car.
Our spiritual life is like driving a car. We can be going about our business, attempting to live
our faith, but taking things for granted. Warning signs are often ignored. These signs might
be slacking off from church attendance, letting some things into our homes or lives that are
questionable, inappropriate or even unchristian. May be we are exercising less control over
our tempers. Or perhaps, we are not making as much time for prayer as we need. Suddenly,
we fall asleep. Temptation is there, but we don't have enough spiritual energy to resist. If we
are blessed, we wake up in time to realize that we are destroying the spiritual life of our
baptism. But it could happen that we don't wake up and sleep forever in our sins, spiritually
dead.
“Stay awake” is the theme for this First Sunday of Advent. The Master of the house is the
Lord. His coming is at the end of our lives to determine our capacity to receive an infinite
share of His love. If He come and finds us ready and waiting, the door of our life open to His
Presence, then we have nothing to worry about. If He comes and finds us spiritually asleep
with the doors of our lives firmly closed to Him, then we face an eternity of coldness and
hatred, an eternity without love. That is what hell is.
Each of us has a unique set of warning signals telling us we are liable to doze off, or fall into
temptation. It may be when people say certain things to us. It may be when we are in certain
situations. And so, we watch. We watch for the signs of the spiritual in our lives. We watch
for the presence of Christ. Without the spiritual, our lives would be self-destructive. Without
the spiritual we wander like the people of the first reading from Isaiah. Without the spiritual
we also become materialistic, selfish, and arrogant. Without the spiritual we lose the capacity
to love. We rush to satiate our needs, but remain empty because only God can complete our
being, only God can fill our emptiness. Without Christ we also become self-destructive.
Advent is the season of hope. The promise of the prophets will be fulfilled. The Messiah will
come to return the world to God’s original plan. Our thirst for the Messiah will be quenched
not just on December 25th, but every day of our lives. We wait. We watch. We stay awake.
Fr Daniel
United States
Dear Patti,
Hope all is well on that side of the planet.
Am doing well and after the Italian course is now doing another course on ecumenism.
I hope you received the emailed report from our members in the Congo. I was impressed by
the report and the attached photos.
I will soon send you the lists of new members they put in my parcel from Butembo.
Let's continue praying for one another, especially peace in the eastern Congo, which we need
more than ever. My own parents, brothers and sisters, are now displaced in the bush, fearing
the rebels.
Regards to our members.
Peace and all good.

Deogratias
Rome
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Hi Patti,
Happy to tell you that when I join the Universal living rosary last year through Br. Paul, it has
been wonderful. I have enrolled seven hundred members. Some pray and have miracles the
same day.
Oh Patti it is wonderful.
God bless you.
Will tell you much next time.
Geraldine from Cameroon
Dear and Loving Sr. Patti,
All routes leading to Conference Venue-Vailankanni Cut off due to heavy rain, floods and
cyclonic weather and storm.
I informed all, except 4 people from Andaman-Nicobar Islands, two Sisters from upper India
who are traveling in Train. They left at 12.30 p.m. today (Wednesday here). They reach
Chennai early Morning.
I have to go and pick them up and lodge them in Sisters’ Hostel. They return to their
convents only on Dec.1st after attending Conference.
Since the Conference postponed they will stay in Chennai. Same way Andaman Islands
members in ship now will be nearing Chennai harbor and we do not know when they Reach
Chennai. Till this evening no news of their arrival. This is due to heavy storm.
I will be sending some banners, November-December Newsletter and Performance report,

lists and few T-Shirts and a C.D.
In the C.D. You will find our newsletter November-December, 2008 stored, converting all
texts to .PDF file format.
With love and prayers,
Kjroche
India

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Dearest Mother Patti,
I am always in great joy receiving d heavenly gifts you sent which uplifts my spirit all the
more. Those precious gifts handed to the members gave them the sense of renewal living a
genuine catholic.
I was at the seminary yesterday bringing with me the altar vessels. Luckily, the Spiritual
Director, Fr. Ben was there and I handed over the precious vessels. And Fr. Ben extends his
heartfelt thanks to you dearest mother and the entire United Living Rosary Association of
Saint Philomena (ULRA) family. He also asked for the email and the website of ULRA. I will try
to send the photos next week. The pre-college seminarians are joining also. I will send the list
next week. I am requesting from you mother to send me sacramentals, altar vessels and
books of modern saints to be given to seminarians and catechist.
Can I ask for a financial support from you mother for me to bring those precious gifts to the
far flung areas of the city? Thank you very much dearest mother. My prayers are with you
and your family and the staff always.
Ad Jesum per Mariam,

Philippines
Dear Mrs. Patti,
What kind of the machine for making the scapulars? How does it work and what is the
technology? Please if you teach us and help us to understand the way of making the
scapulars I am ready to launch the production for you.
Also probably you will need other things produce for Universal Living Rosary Association of St.
Philomena here in Ukraine and we will try to help you. You know that I am ready to move the
mountains if you would order me to do this. This month we enrolled almost 1,000 people.
Father Ivan Kolodiy

Ukraine
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Sr. Rosa and promoters in the Philippines
Dear Patti,
Thank you for the small box you sent me. In it were old magazines, old newspapers (they
were not old to us) There were some rosaries too thank you.
A sad story here.....a married woman turned against the Catholic Church and joined P.A.G.
church (PAG is Pentecostal Assemblies of God church) she was duped into burning her
sacramentals and also those of her husband. The husband and other Catholics tried in vain to
persuade her at least to return them to the church...and something, in a dream came to her
daughter who was in boarding school away. The girl in the morning went back home but first
approached the parish priest. She told him her dream....mama has joined another religion
and intends to burn the rosaries etc. The priest put the girl in his car and together drove to
the mother. Pleaded with her but to no avail. Priest and daughter departed..........The woman
now with all her new friends proceeded to collect all the sacramentals and set them
ablaze.......no sooner had the first rosary caught fire than the woman dropped dead.......
She is not the first....some years back a P.A.G. couple told the congregation to collect all
those devilish things...meaning rosaries. They burnt them and departed in their car.......They
never reached home alive....the car overturned......will they ever learn??????
My love and prayers for a good Advent.....Yours ever....
Lawrence Esiangu,
Living Rosary Centre
Kumi
East Africa
Dear Patti,
Fr. Lolan Tabotabo, is so thankful upon knowing that these vestments, sacramentals and
other altar things are there already (see photos below). He is so eager and sees me right
away. So we see Monsignor Jose Wilson Mendoza, our Parish Rector endorsing these things
and turning over to Fr. Lolan Tabotabo.
He is so happy for he has already these altar things which he can use during his celebration
of the Holy Mass.
If ever a tabernacle arrives it will also be forwarded for him. He is so happy then for he
almost lack in everything.
Carmelita G. Baric
San Carlos City
Negros Occidental
Philippines

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

I thank you thousands of times, I collected today four(4) new boxes of the post, they are
wonderful, nice box, thank you so much for the black suit ,it is very nice, I will wear it , a
wonderful boxes of scapulars and others. I am very happy to collect these boxes today, I
thank Jesus of Prague, today is 25 of the month, I thank you so much, I keep you in my poor
prayers, with your dearest mom, team, staff, benefactors, your people, I send you my all
love.
Ave Maria.
Your Little Son, Slave of the Immaculata

John Kayrouz
Lebanon
México
Monday, November 24, 2008

Dear Sisters in Christ,
It is my pleasure to address you with the purpose of thanking you for all the support that you
have given me during all this time that I have been working enrolling hundreds of persons in
the Living Rosary of St. Philomena.
Up to now, November 29, 2008, I have enrolled 689.
Since 2006 to date, which I have expressed to Patti Melvin, it has been for me a very
important accomplishment and a challenge, for when I began I told myself that I would reach
100 which was my goal, and I have surpassed such goal by achieving that all these persons
be praying their decades.
I want to share all this with you because I am sending you some photos of the Virgin St.
Philomena which a priest, who just initiated with me a movement for this young Saint, has
gotten made. He has in his church a gorgeous natural size statue which was made for him by
a person in Guadalajara; nobody in this City has it, only this chapel. Each month we will have
a Mass in her honor; it will be the 10th of each month at 10:00 a.m. He has asked me to
please ask you for the following:
• Holy oil of St. Philomena to anoint sick persons who will attend this mass
• A holy relic of this saint which he would place next to St. Philomena’s statue
• Also the special prayer to bless the water if you can provide it (i don’t know what she
means, Patti)

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• Medals of st. Philomena. Michael which you have sent me sporadically

• Brown scapulars
• St. Philomena cords
How much would all of this cost this chapel? Because Father Antonio tells me that they will be
needed to extend the veneration of this Saint and Martyr.
I mentioned to Patti that I would write a letter in Spanish, so that you (plural) could please
translate it for her and also show her the photos.
I would like very much to have your comments about it and see what can be done for this
movement; the chapel lacks the means, it is in a zone of humble people, but very devoted.
The name of the Chapel is San Martin Caballero, and the Parish Priest is Padre (P.) Antonio
Ascencio Ramirez.
We are enormously grateful for your support and await your reply.We send you a cordial
greeting and we are at your disposal.
Sra. Araceli Lopez Carrillo

Municipio de Guadalupe
Nuevo León
México
Gracious and wonderful mum Patti! Viva bravo bravo!!!!!
I got surprise gifts of Christmas!!
A big box just arrived with precious and wonderful gifts more than anything in this world!
First was the infant Jesus statue bravo!!! Crucifix, many chasubles, children shoes and cloths,
communion and veils coverings, candles, station of the cross etc etc be blessed mum! I am
on the way to a village! We shall talk more on these gifts tomorrow!
We shall see how we shall use them to help many souls!
Long live Patti! Long live Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena!
Bravo!
Ave Maria
Dear Patti,
I have just heard from Sister Marion (spelling may be wrong) who is an African nun studying
in Scranton, PA. She has called me to say that she received her dedicated decade and began
saying it just recently. I was so happy to hear from her. Also, Sr. Ifigenia, an African nun
studying closer to my home here in Hamburg, NY has recently told us of a trip she will take to
spend some time back home in Tanzania. She is also saying her dedicated decade. When she
returns to this country she will continue to study to obtain her degree at D'Youville College in
Buffalo, NY. Several of these nuns have become close friends and I want to help them in any
way I am able. They love the rosaries and scapulars, pictures and holy cards. They will
distribute them as they are able. St. Philomena is working with Blessed Pauline to spread the
roses across the world. What a sweet fragrance our Blessed Immaculata must experience
from their pure prayers.
I have a request to make for a third nun with whom I have worked. She is back working in
Africa and I would like to send her a package of materials such as the one you sent to me a
couple of months ago. Would I be able to designate a package of materials to go directly to
this Sister whose name is Sister Terezina Magoti? I have her e-mail address and will ask her
for a shipping address if you think it possible. She has nothing to give to her students in the
way of materials and literature, but would be able to distribute the rosaries and scapulars to
the girls she teaches. Her mission is to educate more girls in the areas of Tanzania that have
access to trained teachers (nuns) and facilities that they are building. Terezina is a Sister of
the Immaculate Heart of Africa.
Thanks for your attention....I will send the donation as soon as I am able to do so.
Your friend,
Pat Allan
New York
United States
Dear Madam Patti,
Thanks for your communication, we pray for Emma, he is always at awkward situations but
He is building the heaven for you all, whatever you help Him to reach the disadvantaged is a
credit to you the benefactors! We thank you that He will be with us through the Christmas
season, I wish He spends his feast day with us at Yei diocese.
Things are really grave here as you say.
I share with you, a miracle came by. We have a problem of escalating human sacrifices,
children are sacrificed by many business men that are now flowing in search of opportunities.
Two girls were kidnapped by witchdoctors, when they were taken to the shrine, the one who
had a Miraculous Medal around her waist was released and the friend sacrificed, so pray for
us, brutality is widespread. One sub parish is crying for the image of the Immaculate Heart,
we pray that you give some to Emma to bring to us.
John
Sudan

Dear Sisters in Christ,
It is my pleasure to address you with the purpose of thanking you for all the support that you
have given me during all this time that I have been working enrolling hundreds of persons in
the Living Rosary of St. Philomena.
Up to now, November 29, 2008, I have enrolled 689.
Since 2006 to date, which I have expressed to Patti Melvin, it has been for me a very
important accomplishment and a challenge, for when I began I told myself that I would reach
100 which was my goal, and I have surpassed such goal by achieving that all these persons
be praying their decades.
I want to share all this with you because I am sending you some photos of the Virgin St.
Philomena which a priest, who just initiated with me a movement for this young Saint, has
gotten made. He has in his church a gorgeous natural size statue which was made for him by
a person in Guadalajara; nobody in this City has it, only this chapel. Each month we will have
a Mass in her honor; it will be the 10th of each month at 10:00 a.m. He has asked me to
please ask you for the following:

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• Holy oil of St. Philomena to anoint sick persons who will attend this mass
• A holy relic of this saint which he would place next to St. Philomena’s statue
• Also the special prayer to bless the water if you can provide it (i don’t know what she
means, Patti)
• Medals of st. Philomena. Michael which you have sent me sporadically
• Brown scapulars
• St. Philomena cords
How much would all of this cost this chapel? Because Father Antonio tells me that they will be
needed to extend the veneration of this Saint and Martyr.
I mentioned to Patti that I would write a letter in Spanish, so that you (plural) could please
translate it for her and also show her the photos.
I would like very much to have your comments about it and see what can be done for this
movement; the chapel lacks the means, it is in a zone of humble people, but very devoted.
The name of the Chapel is San Martin Caballero, and the Parish Priest is Padre (P.) Antonio
Ascencio Ramirez.
We are enormously grateful for your support and await your reply.We send you a cordial
greeting and we are at your disposal.
Sra. Araceli Lopez Carrillo

Municipio de Guadalupe
Nuevo León
México
Municipio de Guadalupe, Nuevo León, México

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Good day Madam Patti,
we knows that the hurricane went without you get problem at centre, we thanks you for all,
now here the refuges from Darfur says that they happy to hear that you send Emma during
Christmas as you told us, where is he starting with, we prays that he comes to Raja 179kms
west of Wau town to see us, we will be happy to have him on the feast of his on Christmas. Is
it possibility, thank you love us, has he come back from Congo, we told that he was in Congo
where life dangerous.
A. Justin
Darfur
Thank you dearest Patti for the envelopes dated November14th.
Congratulations for the new cards. How wonderful !!!!
Also the new booklets...Absolutely wonderful. Can you please send some more?
God reward you abundantly.
Fr. Ernil asks if is possible a crucifix for sick people. Fr. Ioan Cosma needs some priest clothes
and a table clothe.
The Ukrainian priests are suggested to stay far from St. Philomena and America!
Fr. Lucian asks about the ciboriu.
Fr. Miclea Florin needs a black priest shirt if is possible. Also some medicine for hepatitis.
Fr. Pop Traian needs some white priest clothes under ornates.
Many ask Our Lady, St. Philomena, the Guardian Angel and any other holy images. Metal
Rosary are requested by some of believers if is possible and all you can send specially for
Christmas.
Somebody asked a color Atlas. Children are looking for a Christmas manger. Many of them
will have not a Christmas tree because the price of food is higher and higher.
Two white dresses for the first communion are express requested at the Visuia Parish.
We invoke St. Philomena to come and help us to do a nice Christmas in honor of Jesus.
We will continue our work as we can and how long we can.
May God's continual blessing fall upon you.
Ave Maria!
Monica
Romania
I sent to you some photos (18), I prepare another. The priest who bless with the Holy
Eucharist, is our father who enroll the most in the confraternity of the Scapular Brown, he is
the superior of the Marial movement of priests in Lebanon, so he distribute many scapulars to
others priests in other places, we come every week to the church of Saint Joseph in the city
of Jounieh, to pray the complete Rosary (4 mysteries), with the mass ,the adoration, we
pray every week together ,the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I keep you in
my poor prayers; I send you my love and gratitude. Ave Maria.
Your Little Son, Slave of the Immaculata

John Kayrouz
Lebanon

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Thanks mum! I am with Br. Chrispinus Masika at Bungoma!
It was a wonderful journey!
I arrived in the morning by 4:00 a.m. and it was dark and bad with criminals around! I did
not see Br. Chrispinus, waited for more than one hour, I decided to go back but I prayed to
Santa Filomena for courage and I feared may be all was a fake but she gave me courage and
a Samaritan who took me to the cathedral church for mass and then I after the mass I met
Br. Chrispinus!
He is a young man of 27 years with faith and wisdom! He is like Paul of Cameroon; he is
ready to work without fear! He is in the midst of proud and arrogant priests who refused to
support him but he is like me not afraid to do good! He welcomed me, took me to sisters and
fathers and then to youth centers!
I examined his register and he is well organized, he get 15 people in the Universal Living
Rosary Association of Saint Philomena, and, after teaching them, he registered them and sent
their names to you! I taught him about the used of dates and numbers etc!
He is covering about three parishes, so he may needs some allowances, may be 50 dollars or
100 dollars for a start! He is working hard on his farm! And he is a catechist and hoping to
become a simple brother! And he loves the poor and studied sign languages and loves deaf
and dump and speaks with them! His way of enrolling is systematic but good! We shall work
together, he is a promising leaders!
Now we are going to see some Universal Living Rosary Association members!
Viva Patti
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Dear Patti,
Receive my greetings through our Lord Jesus. I hope and believe that you are fine and
healthy.
I write to let you know that Fr. Patrick Filomena has arrived safely. I have already felt free of
what I was worried about. He has shown me how to write the dates on the lists and the
cards. There is a lot to learn for the time he is going to be with me. I request that you send
me the numbers for I did not see them in the small parcel that I received.
Please, pray for the ministry here in Kenya and pray that by spreading the devotion to the
Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena (ULRA) many priests may change there
way of life and relationship to the people of God.
Fr. is going to share with you a lot of what he has seen here in Bungoma.
God bless the work that you and all the Philomena Members are doing for his glory.
Long life.
Yours,
Br. Chrispinus Masika
Bungoma - Kenya

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Greetings of peace to you all.
This Fr. Tom Kottackal and I happened to see your "The Universal Living Rosary Association"
quarterly at the Bishop's House, Raiganj,West Bengal India. I liked it, and found it to be very
helpful. So I thought of asking you whether you could send me a copy of it.
I work in Jharkhand, in the Dumka Diocese, a tribal concentrated area. If you can find some
sponsors could you send me some Rosaries and a book on How Rosary came into the present
form, I would be very grateful to you if you could help me. Be assured of my loving prayer for
all your intentions.
Thanking you and with best regards,

Fr. Tom Kottackal,s. j.
Jharkhand,
India

Dear Patti,
I want to tell you that I received a box of rosaries and prayer books last November 13, 2008.
We just started our new Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena in Barangay
Argao, Mogpog, Marinduque her in the Philippines. The people especially the children are very
glad that they have their own rosaries to be used in their prayers. Next time I will send you
pictures the day I received the box.
Another thing that I want to tell you is that last week, there was one student in our Barangay
who was possessed by a bad spirit with a different voice and he has a very frightening face
and eyes. The people in our Barangay help this student by praying to St. Philomena. My
cousin put the picture of St. Philomena under his head and began to pray and all of a sudden
the boy back to normal. This is not the first time it happened. So our parish priest Fr. Sherwin
blessed all the classroom of the school and told the students to pray fervently so that bad
spirit will not come back.
In time of the arrival of the rosaries you sent us, I gave it to my cousin who is also a teacher
like me and distributed to the students together with the picture of St. Philomena. Before
they start their class they have their rosary first. The students are very grateful for the
religious articles you sent us. Thank you very much to Universal Living Rosary and May the
Good Lord with the help of St. Philomena bless you always with good health. We include you
in our prayers.
Lally G. Zapata
Philippines

With grateful heart I thank you for the rosaries, precious books and for everything inside the
Forex box...And, finally, I saw your picture with your husband. Your face speaks so much of
your kindness. I thank God for that.
I immediately opened the box with so much joy just when I arrived from a long trip, a
vocation campaign...A million thanks to the Universal Living Rosary Association of St.
Philomena (ULRA), and to the LORD!
I distributed everything from your first package (scapulars, medals, rosaries, St. Philomena
oils and leaflets) in every place I stayed particularly in the islands of Visayas and Mindanao.
ULRA's religious articles reach in the different parts of the Philippines. I'm very happy for this.
St Philomena has really touched everyone's heart. An active police and church worker, Jelson
Bangoy, from Surigao was greatly inspired when he and his whole family received the
scapular. He became so much interested about the Universal Living Rosary Association that
he immediately wrote you on the next day. Your reply inspired him also to promote ULRA and
St. Philomena to everyone in San Nicolas Cathedral. He immediately informed me when he
received the box from ULRA...They distributed everything already...His whole family work for
it.
I already have a lot of forms to mail, it means a lot of groups has been formed, thanks be to
God...He really uses instruments in calling people to pray...My co sisters, and friends are also
inspired to spread the apostolate of the ULRA everywhere. We already have groups in the jail,
from among the domestic helpers, from the youth, parents and from the different walks of
life.
I hope I will find a time to make photo copies of the forms and send to you soon when I finish
my other works.
Thank you so much and best regards,

Philippines

Bravo mum! God bless you! Now I have great ideas about how to go about your promises! St.
Philomena will help us!
As you know I was made the Superior of Claretians Missionaries in Nairobi, and I am in
charge, now we have a big land at Langata opposite Tangaza college, near Catholic
University, and it has two or three rooms for the priests who are going to stay with me, it is
walled round a big compound, a lot of spaces, I am thinking we use part of the land on
temporary bases, we use wooden planks to put a library, chapel and office since I am going
to live there as a new Superior more than five years, and it is in town, and easy accessible to
all...that is my idea now
Or unless if you have big money we look for our own land and build but that will take money!
If you like it may costs about two or three thousand dollars, with electricity, tables, seats etc
and a good moderate car will be about five or six thousand dollars or less!
Anyway we put all in prayers and ask St. Philomena to direct us!
Viva Patti! I am encouraged by your support and motherly care for me! I want to make this
devotion a reality in Africa!
People are coming to see the need! I want to focus on it since i am almost through with my
studies!
Let me hear from you and then see the next step to go!
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I am a devotee of St. Philomena and I want to share my testimony with you all.
I am from Nigeria and a graduate; I prayed to St. Philomena to help me beg God for exam
success and she did because I made a wonderful Degree result. I had faith because our
Blessed Virgin Mother promised that St. Philomena, nothing is refused. So I am particularly
grateful to God, Jesus Christ, The Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Philomena.
Help me thank her and join me to beg her to grant me another favor I am asking.
Amen
Nigeria
Dear Patti,
I had read all your messages in the e-mail and I am very grateful to you and I am very much
thankful for a box for Rev. Fr. Lolan Tabo-tabo and for myself.
I really rest assured that Fr. Lolan Tabo-tabo will be very happy about it. You know, there are
other two new parish priests who have observed what Fr. Lolan Tabo-tabo doing in his parish;
they were very inquisitive and very curious about Fr. Lolan where he got the beads of
rosaries.
Then they went to Sis Carmen Mortel told them all about it and I gave some of the reading
materials such as newsprints, dedicated decade in the three issues and told them that they
have to enroll the names of their parishioners to join the Living Rosary and the devotion of
St. Philomena.
Patti, Cadiz City is about one hundred kilometers away from our place; and that is yet a part
in our diocese. These priests are assigned in the interior part of our diocese.
How I wish and pray these devotions will reach out to the remote part in our place or in our
country because these people are easily swayed by the bad elements in our country. I hope
and pray again this priest would be the one to guide them into our faith. God Bless Us All!!
Carmelita G. Baric
San Carlos City
Negros Occidental
Philippines
Fr. Lolan Tabo-tabo and Carmelita G. Baric and Universal Living Rosary Association
of Saint Philomena Members, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, Philippines

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Dear Patti,
I have just got information that the boxes for Sudan have arrived; I have finished my Holy
Hour at Christ the King. I’m going to continue with putting together my report. Pray for me
that the computer from which I work continues to help me so that I can finish this by
Wednesday so I can send it to you then.
Tomorrow morning I will tell you what is missing; I am still tied up by this report but will
check.
I love you all.
Emmanuel
Uganda
Patti,
My brother Norman who found out his tumor in his salivary gland was cancerous. They didn't
give him much hope because this is a very low moving cancer and very rare. Only 300,000
people world-wide get it so there is much research done because of the low numbers.
I had written to you asking for St Philomena's oil and you sent me a large bottle which I had
forwarded to my brother. His wife has used it every time he went in for chemo. Some of the
surgeons didn't give him much hope, but he has a woman oncologist who has been
wonderful. She started treating the cancer aggressively and told him they were going to beat
it. That was the first hope he had in many months. They won't cure it but at least he has a
quality of life right now even though he gets sick from the treatment sometimes.
The tumor has shrunk. He doesn't have to wear a bandage any longer and started radiation
treatments last week for 6 weeks. He has people praying for him all across the nation, but I
thank you and St Philomena's intercession for giving my brother more time to be with his
family.
I have a friend who also belongs to the Universal Rosary. Her son, who is 48 years old, fell of
his second story roof trying to repair damage from hurricane Ike. He fell on concrete on the
side of his head. For weeks they would not tell his Mom if he would live or die. I had kept the
small bottle of St Philomena's oil so I sent it to her to apply to all the injured areas like you
advised with my brother. To make the sign of the cross and say a prayer for healing. He is
now walking, knows his Mom, doesn't remember the fall, thank God, and they said his
therapy is way ahead of anything they would have expected with his injury. She said when
things settle down she will also write to you and thanks God and St Philomena intercession
for her son also.
God Bless
Carol
United States

Dear Mrs. Melvin,
I was out of city for the last 8 days. I went to Lahore on 7th morning. From there I traveled
to Sukkur on the same day. Next day when I reached there I went to Khairpur. From
Khairpur (Sindh) I went to Karachi on 9th in the evening reaching next morning. I was very
very busy there till 13th. I started my journey back on 13th and reached back last day.
I have received on lift. I hope to receive the other lift today or on Monday.
Have you got the packet of pictures?
I have sent the two books to be put on the ULRA website and those have been successfully
done. Now I will try to send the Newsletters from the beginning as soon as possible.
Please pray for my father. I am going to take him to hospital. He is having some prostatic
problem and might need surgery.

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Dear Mrs. Melvin,
I was out of city for the last 8 days. I went to Lahore on 7th morning. From there I traveled
to Sukkur on the same day. Next day when I reached there I went to Khairpur. From
Khairpur (Sindh) I went to Karachi on 9th in the evening reaching next morning. I was very
very busy there till 13th. I started my journey back on 13th and reached back last day.
I have received on lift. I hope to receive the other lift today or on Monday.
Have you got the packet of pictures?
I have sent the two books to be put on the ULRA website and those have been successfully
done. Now I will try to send the Newsletters from the beginning as soon as possible.
Please pray for my father. I am going to take him to hospital. He is having some prostatic
problem and might need surgery.

Pakistan

Dear Mama Patti,
Have got today time write again, miracle we still live, fighting gone on everyday. we so thank
you mama for all send us, thank Emma who is ready die with us we told today that he helped
send more medals to other part were we fighting. I tell you many we die for nothing because
of Rwanda giving support to Laurent Nkunda; we fear genocide to bring to us in Congo.
Now we have Angola troops came to help Congo government but fighting so much, today you
heard that forces of Congo managed to repulse the rebels from the outskirts of
Goma and we have some way, we fear much genocide talked of, we need you help us be our
prayer. We phone Emma and he back Kampala!
Joseph
Goma
Congo

Dear Patti and Co,
A Million Thanks for the parcels that you send to Hong Kong and Macau. Both packets arrived
safely and the Rosaries, medals, leaflets etc. surprised us. Well slowly we will take them to
different parts of the promised land of China. As you had requested I offered one Holy Mass
for the Family of Kathleen Campbell & Co. I do remember you all in my humble prayers.
Well now since I stay in Hong Kong when you send Rosaries and other materials to MACAU
you may send it in the name of FR. ALBERTO ROSSA. Because according to the postal rule
the person should directly collect the material from the post office. Since Fr. Rossa is our
superior he is always there and it will be easy to collect it. His address is as follows:
Fr. Alberto Rossa

Claretian Publications
Macau
China
There are a lot of changes taking place in the promised land of china. Please do continue to
pray for us and the church in china. Once again a million thanks for everything. Convey our
regards and prayers to all the members of living rosary association.
All the best. Take care. May God Bless you.
Fr. Jojo Ancheril CMF

Christ The Worker Parish
Kowloon
Hong Kong
China
Dear Patti,
Thank you for the recent packet of material and for sharing with me the life story of
Venerable Pauline-Marie Jaricot. Her devotion to the Eucharist and to Our Lady is a great
example of love and prayerful thanksgiving. It is my hope that, through such devotion, the
hearts of many will more deeply know and serve Our Lord.
Daniel Cardinal DiNardo
Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
1700 San Jacinto
Houston, Texas 77002
Click here to see the letter

Dear Patti,
May the peace of our Jesus Christ be with you all!
Many thanks for so many of the spiritual gifts you sent to us. I presented a set of 14 Station
of the Cross to our Parish Priest after the Mass for the Crowning of Our Blessed Mother Mary
on 31st October for our new church building. Our Parish Priest Fr. Paul said to thank you very
much for the gifts and said very kind of ULRA to give theses kind of gifts to the Parish.
One of our promoter here is having problem with receiving the devotional items from your
end so he is asking me to forward an alternate postal address. The owner of the postal box
not handing over to him the sacramental items.
Thank you! May God bless you all!
Sabina Fuluvii
Boroko
Papua New Guinea

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Dear Mother Patti,
May I inform you that today I received a box through UPS.
Its contents include;
-19 posters
-Oil,
-Rosaries and enrollment cards (French)
-Register and enrollment numbers and leaflets.
Also, the PADDED ENVOLPE arrived today.
Thank you very much Mom.
However, I sent 2 boxes of English items to South West of Cameroon respectively.
Again, towards this weekend I shall be sending more 2 boxes to our 2 promoters in Bamenda.
One is working in the prison in Bamenda Provincial Prison. I told her to forward her lists to
the center to enable me see if the work is done properly.
Thank you immensely for your September letter. It was encouraging and full of inspiring
message.
Hope the latest lists I sent arrive soon.
I would like to beg you to direct me whenever and wherever you notice I'm going wrong. I'm
ready and prepared to work more and harder.
Our center is becoming more and more popular, both Priests and lay people visit our center
though many come to take material.
My plan is to make many translations but there are few volunteers in the work. But I know
that Mary and our Princess Philomena will see to the problem.
Remember, Mother that you are the center of our force and strength and we pray for you
daily for strength and grace to overcome all the obstacles. That is without you we can do little.
I will share with Jude the cassette you sent when I receive it.
If God gives me the grace, strength and good health I will work harder.
Ave Maria!
Paul E.EKpe
St. Joseph's Anglophone Parish
Yaounde-Cameroon
Africa

I just received a packaged from Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena
containing rosaries, pamphlets, scapular, holy oil and cord thru registered mail in via
Philippine Postal Corporation. I did not expect that you would grant my request thru e-mail.
I am very much happy with my wife Romelyn and children; Christine Joy, Roselyn Joy and
Jerome Joy including my parents of having this great privilege to propagate the Living Rosary
of St. Philomena here in our Diocese, Diocese of Surigao under BISHOP Antonieto Cabajog, D.
D.
Actually I was surprised when I received the notice just this morning from Philippine Postal
Corporation with information that I have a package. When I get it in the post office and as I
opened in the presence of my wife and children and upon knowing that it came from the
Living Rosary of the USA, we felt great joy as we have now an overwhelming privilege to
evangelize the Good News of Salvation thru this devotion.
We will start distributing them tomorrow, during our meeting and on Friday during our prayer
meeting of a Servant Community (Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement) and every time, i
will give talk on our formation program. We believe that many would accept the devotion
especially that the people of this Country is now experiencing different kinds of problem and
this Country really needs prayer to be saved from Massive Corruption, poverty, war, sickness,
famine, culture of death (Divorce, Euthanasia, Abortion, Total Infertility and Homosexuality)
which is now on the second reading in the Philippine congress. Our Political leaders and the
Filipino people are also in need of conversion, where lies, injustices and other evils in the
society are happening in the entire Country. Please help us for these intentions. Please pray
also for the healing of my Father who is now sickly, my mother and grand parents.
May I also request a special prayer for the Filipino families especially my elder sister Genalyn
and his husband Larry and their children whose family was broken due to infidelities
committed by both of them. Their children are now suffering the consequences of their
separation. Please pray also for the family of my elder brother Florante and younger sister
Lilian.
Lastly, Thank you very for giving me a very nice T-Shirt printed with the face of St.
Philomena, my wife like very much the T-Shirt.
May God Bless You abundantly! Please pray for a very successful distribution of the said
devotion in our diocese.
I also pray for your success in spreading this devotion worldwide. I hope to receive more
items in the near future, and may the Lord God would touch people to give donation for this
endeavor.
In Jesus and Mary thru the intercession of St. Philomena.
Bro. Jelson D Bangoy

Kaskag Village
Surigao City
Philippines
Live Jesus in our Hearts, Forever!!!
Dear Family of the Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena,
I am writing to you to share my experiences of some of the greatest things I can see at work
with our dearest little Saint!!!
Last Monday, 3/11/08, I began my novena asking St Philomena to help me to fill in a visa
application so I can return to this place next year to help these indigenous kids and
community especially in their faith journey!!! Through the 9 days, I've been asking her if it
was God's Will, show me so that when I do fill in the forms, it may be granted so I can come
back, work in the school as a Lasallian teacher and spread her devotion!
Today 11-11-08, is the 9th day and what I experienced was amazing!!!! My school principal
here, asked me to see him this afternoon. I went to the office at 1:15 p.m. but he was busy,
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minutes later. I went to his office and he asked me if I had the papers all filled in and ready
to be sent. My ears were hot! Am I hearing the right words? Yes!!! Praise God!!!! I got them
out for him to check through and said to have it ready by tomorrow, Wednesday, so it can be
posted on Thursday!!!! It's a miracle of the first part of the processes that are lined up for
me!!!!
I need your prayers so that the visa can be granted before school starts next year, 2009
because I am returning back to my country, Papua New Guinea at the end of this month!!!
In June, I received a parcel from there which contained a Philomena Rosary, Holy oil, cord
and some membership forms! What happened is that the forms are still with me because I
felt that these people, I need to do something for them to see first, or it's to say, I have to
get their attention before I enroll them. I should start with the Church leaders, and then
move to the others! Pray for me for this to bear fruit!!!
With the Rosary I got, it's something to share about! I got it before World Youth Day. I
traveled to Melbourne with six men. I gave three prayer cards to three of the men and
committed us to Saint Philomena so she can be with us. All along she was with us and I
asked them for their thanksgiving!!!
In Melbourne, I met a young New Zealand boy. When I shared about Saint Philomena, I felt
this strong urge to let go of the Rosary! That the Rosary was for him. I tried to fight this by
not giving it to him but I couldn't! I gave him the Rosary and he was thrilled!!!! I enrolled him
in one of my sheets I had with me. Next I met his teacher and she saw something unusual
and appealing in me that she asked if I was a nun! I shared with her so many good things
and her, also, the Holy oil just went to her! I enrolled her and gave her prayers as well.
Back in my homeland of Bougainville, so many have good experiences and they asked me for
some more of the Holy oil, Rosaries, Scapulars, medals, cords, cards and prayers.
If you happen to have some, please send them with the enrolment Forms to me.
I believe I have said a lot here and I shall hear from yours sometime! Let us continue praying
for our great saint to help us shine for others to see!
In Saint Philomena we stand!

Sincerely,
Patricia
Papua New Guinea
Dearest Mrs. Patti Melvin,
Praises and thanksgiving to the Lord of goodness.
I received the FOREX box loaded with sacramentals and rest assured of the task i must do to
promote the devotion of the "Universal Living Rosary Association". It's an exciting task to go
distributing rosaries and reminding my town mates to live their catholic beliefs regarding the
sacramentals and the praying to the Blessed Mother at least a decade/ Mystery of the Rosary.
At the moment i am preparing the lists and hopefully to mail it as soon as i accomplish filling
them.
Thank you and God bless us.
Sister Josephine Fernandez, O.P.

Dominican School of Dagupan City
Pangasinan, Philippines
Very Dear Patti,
You and your group have launched me into an inexpressible spiritual baptism. Your Dedicated
Decades' pamphlets could be considered next to Bible to me. Some of the prayers and
articles there have healed me again and again. Patty, go on, achieve more for the Lord for
He will continue to be your support. I wish you and your members health.
Luke Ohaeche
NB, If possible, I need some of these pamphlets whether old or new or even those in the
archive. Their messages are all new for renewal each time one looks at them.
Luke Ohaecehe
Nigeria, West Africa

Dear Patti,
I hope I find you well. My family and I are very well and we thank God for that because
things are quite bad here in Zimbabwe. There are basically shortages of all basic commodities
and even of food stuffs. Daily you here of people dying of hunger and access to cash is also a
challenge, so you cannot access cash to buy food or to pay school fees. Teachers have been
on strike for basically the whole year and hospitals are closing most of the wards because of
lack of medicine. I could go on the list is endless. The does not seem to be a solution in place
for the foreseeable future.
Patti I still have not received the cards and rosaries for the three lists I send in December
2007. I have tried checking with the post office but they said if I can get a reference from you
they can help me to trace the parcel.
May the good Lord guide you in the good work you are doing.
Warm regards
Rosina
Zimbabwe
Southern Africa

Dear Patti,
I am writing to you as I come back from Kinanira parish on the boarder with Congo, I have
seen humanity in catastrophe. Much needs to be done but who is there to do it?
I managed to send across the boxes of devotional items you sent me to another side, this
time not to Francis, however, I saw poor souls on the Ugandan side of the border in dire need
for urgent attention, even as I write, I can confirm to you that its the blessed humanity
streaming across the boarder others are dying on the way while others are shot! Yesterday I
was allowed by the Uganda Police to station at the boarder, 5 kms from the parish and
dressed everyone that crossed. Many had bullet wounds, children malnourished and others
were at the brink of death. I tell you I am happy for one thing: My hands are paining now
because of the long hours I spent at the boarder with raised hands to dress all. As I dressed,
heavy guns were shouting from inside the forested frontier of Congo. Until it started raining
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languishing in the forests. Children and women most affected.
Good I understand the language that is spoken, related to Kinyarwanda, before I went to the
border I was blessed to quash the Charismatic ideology from the parishioners of Kinanira that
included some refuges from Congo. They had met for "prayers". Many went home happy with
the Fatima message, however, since my target were the refuges, I promised to return when
time allowed to tell parishioners more, they seemed wanted me more interested to take up
Rosary Decades.
I had another crushing experience; the parish priest of the area is at the same time the
district vice chairman of the diabolical Ugandan political wing of the district. Serving two
people is possible? Thus the curate and some other people shared with me that they lack
spirituality. I believe the ULRA (Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena) would
be the answer.
Here is my request, to you there it might be demanding allot from you. I see the gravity of
suffering and the need, we are privileged that ULRA has a personnel on ground, what so far
we have achieved is good but still a drop in the ocean! Is it possible to send me more boxes
three boxes with MM and some Saint Philomena oils, I take them to be flown to another
direction. Cries are from every corner. I am told to take them to that contact that I got via a
satellite link up would take me another 500?
I was failing to leave the parish, I became helpless and fell down and cried when we got news
that the rebels with the help of Rwandan mercenaries killed 100 people overnight during the
rain???
Pray for us, its raining heavily, and people are in the forest, no food no beddings! They are
mountainous and weakened trees and soils are having cut off the slippery narrow roads.
Patti I feel helpless, I can’t write more, tears are falling, I will check you letter let me go back
to my shappy lodging.
Emmanuel Kitandwe
United Living Rosary Association Liaison
Kampala,
Uganda
Dear,Mrs. Patti Melvin.
I would like to inform you that last week i received your box sent on 7th Oct 2008.
It is with the following materials:
1. Cassette "Mary the mother of Christians" ............................. 1

2. Scapulars ...................................................................... 140
3. St. Philomena's Litany leaflets ........................................... 49
4. D. Cards ....................................................................... 405
5. pray the Rosary booklets ................................................... 3
6. Daily thoughts and prayers for our beloved dead booklets .... 3
7. St. Philomena's Cords and Oil ............................................. 6
8. Ven. Pauline Marie Jaricot's booklets ................................... 3
9. St. John Neumann's catechism ........................................... 3
10. Dedicated Decades Magaizines's ....................................... 5
11. Garment of Grace leaflets ............................................... 20
12. Litany of the Holy Ghost leaflets ...................................... 15
13. The Treasure of the Lord leaflets ....................................... 7
14. The U. L. R leaflets ......................................................... 15
15. St. Philomena's enlarged pictures .................................... 15
16. our Lady's enlarged pictures ............................................. 5
17. Mary's miraculous medals ............................................. 525
18. Rosaries ...................................................................... 135
19. Envelope ......................................................................... 1
20. Enrolling forms ................................................................. 6
21. Other printed materials.
Thanks you very much indeed.

May God bless you.
Mwl. Stephen Tarimo

Moshi - Tanzania
East Africa
Dear Patti,
Peace and Joy!
I just received the box today with all the devotional items you mailed, and stoles and books
included - so timely. We have this convent in the south and the Sisters assigned there just
need it so badly and so with so much joy I handed on to them the mentioned items. God is
really great! Our Sisters are working among farmers and fisher folks and they will bless the
convent and chapel early December. What a real gift!
As of now, we have a group of cancer patients her in the retreat house... They are having
prayer sessions; I will also give to them the St. Philomena Oil - so timely. What a real gift!
There is influx of people requesting to be part of Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint
Philomena (ULRA) here and so the rosaries which you sent are not just enough. So may I
again request for additional rosaries, decade cards and medals. This is really a wonderful
blessing. What a real gift! I thank God for allowing me to be an instrument in spreading the
devotion to Mother Mary and St. Philomena. May this wonderful work be a tangible reason for
Ven. Pauline Marie Jaricot to be counted among the Saints in heaven.
Thank you very very much for the shipped box! You have done a great JOB! May the LORD
ever sustain you.
In Christ love,
S. Justine, OSB
S. Justine S. Cotiangco, Osb

St. Scholastica's Center of Spirituality
Tagaytay City
Philippines

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Dear Patti
Once again receives our salutation in the power name of Jesus, the Holy Virgin Mary and St.
Philomena our Protectress.
By the grace of God we are in good health and we hope it is the same for you and all
Universal Living Rosary Association members in Dickinson, Texas, United States.
As concerning us we have opened the new pastoral entrance in our parish and now we want
to spread the Living Rosary in all parishes of our country and for this we ask you a
recommendation, a letter explaining our membership to ULRA (Universal Living Rosary
Association), you will find an example at the end of this e-mail with some pictures of our 10th
anniversary (see below).
We shall send you the complete list of 15 new members in our next mail.
Patti we shall increase our prayers to ULRA mission in the world.
Courage and God bless us.
From Living Rosary in Côte D'Ivoire

Mr. Kalou Clement,
Coordinator of ULRA in Côte D'Ivoire
Abidjan
Côte D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) West Africa

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Thank you so much for your love, encouragement and trust, you are giving to me, who am a
little ant of Our Lady and the Infant Jesus.
Thank you so much for the cassettes you sent to me, I will listen to them attentively, I know
well the condition of your country is very bad and very materialism, atheism, and other evils?
You have also the permission of the abortion and the marriage of the homosexual and others,
all these things we do not have in our country, Lebanon, here no permit to the abortion,
marriage of the homosexual, and others.
Thanks to God and Our Lady, She still protects us of all these things until now, here the
family is very united and strong, and the children are very attachment to their moms and
fathers. I pray to Our Lady to help you and your country and your dear people who suffer so
much of all these evils and oppressions.
I collected today the two boxes you shipped to me, they are wonderful, contains the Litany of
our lovely Saint Philomena, that's what we need so much! I wait the others boxes you
mentioned that you also shipped to me, I hope you sent Scapulars, and the materials of Saint
Philomena, who is very beloved and popular here.
I still pray to Mrs. Lisa and her husband, I offered mass for her, I pray for her healing.
I send you my love and prayers.
Salve Regina, God save America & Lebanon too.
Your little son,

Slave of the Immaculate of Mary,
John Kayrouz
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Dear Patti Melvin,
Praise the Lord! We have just finished our Annual Retreat. There were (106) priests who were
participating in the Retreat conducted by one of our brother priests. During the days of
Retreat, I was praying and offering some masses for all our members of the Living Rosary
Association. I have offered some special masses for the pure intentions of the donors who
sent me the mass stipends. I will be very grateful to them if they wish and they can send me
some more mass stipends.
Soon after the Annual Retreat, many of my brother priests came to me for Rosaries, Medals,
Holy Pictures and St. Philomena's Oil. Unfortunately, I have received only one box and of
course, it was not enough to share them. In order to please their request, I promise to share
them in the next time. I hope and pray that my promise will be fulfilled through the prayer of
St. Philomena. Some of the priests told me that whenever, they use the Oil of St. Philomena
and its cords, many sick were cured miraculously. I too have experienced quite many times
of these instances.
Thanks to God! There will be one of our brother priests who will be consecrated as an
Auxiliary Bishop for the Arch-Diocese of Taungyi in the 18th November 2008. On the next
Sunday (Christ the King), there will be also six of our younger brothers who will be ordained
by the Newly Consecrated Bishop Msgr. Basilio Athai in the Diocese of Loikaw. Let us praise
the Lord. Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thanking you and praying for you and all our members of the Living Rosary
Association of St. Philomena.
Good luck and good health and God bless!
United with you, in Mary our Mother of Perpetual Help.
Fr. Paul Maphroi

Myanmar

Dear Patti,
Praise be to Jesus and Mary our loving Mother!
Hope everything is ok.
Much congratulation for the new web site is very very beautiful.
Today, I've received your box sending me on the 24oct.08, many many thanks for it.
Inside I'll find Holy Oils of St. Philomena and two Statuette of St. Philomena, they are
beautiful, wonderful.
Thanks God and St. Philomena.
I think that Sr. Gabriella will be so happy for this. Many thanks again.
So, Nena sends you her best regards and her love, she prays always for you, St. Philomena
and the Association.
May God and our Mother Mary bless you!!
With love, Marilena

Italy

Dear Patti:
I would like to order 5 bottles of the Saint Philomena oil like the one which was enclosed in
the power pack you sent me about a year ago at a friend’s request.
My mother has Alzheimer’s disease and has been having terrible "sundown syndrome"
episodes wherein she forgets who my father is and where she is; she becomes highly agitated
and upset and so on - the episodes usually last from 1 to 2 hours - then afterward, my
mother has no memory of what went on.
On a three day visit to my parent's house recently, I took the little bottle of the St. Philomena
oil from your society to my father and suggested he use it to try to help my mother. Last
night, I was very surprised when my father told me he has been applying the St. Philomena
oil to my mother's temples and it seems to be helping her. She is a little more calm, many
of the episodes seem to be less severe, and she has gone from having the episodes everyday,
to having episode free days now and then. My dad told me last night my mom hasn't had an
episode for two days in a row. My dad actually asked me to tell him about St. Philomena and
seemed to hang on every word as I told him her story. My father told me my mother looks
forward to him soothing her temples with the oil, and actually remembers to ask him for the
treatment. My father asked that I send him more of the St. Philomena oil, hence this e-mail.
I actually work at the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in Boston.
God bless you for your fine work with promoting Pauline Jarictot’s society of the Living Rosary
and for promoting St. Philomena. I feel like Our Lady and St. Philomena are helping my
family and that there is a miracle in progress!
Sincerely,
Susan Maravic
Boston, Massachusetts
United States

Happy is my heart that I am to meet our Parish Priest in his office on Friday 7th November
2008 at 16h French time. I am optimistic that he will be a great assistance and support in
making the Living Rosary activities establish and honoured here in Strasbourg and the whole
of France at large. Thank you for this opportunity accorded me to make God's works known
to others.
I will inform you of the outcome soon afterwards.
I am praying that God will guide the whole U S A citizens to vote for the right candidate. May
God Bless the United States of America.
Thanking you for your immense services to humanity.
God bless you and your world.

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JKAsamoah
Strasbourg, France
Madam Patti,
Greet you from Wau, thanks for all that you do, we here now are experiencing another influx
of refuges from Darfur that are running from the fighting. Humanity is at stake everywhere,
we have also learnt that what is in Goma is tear draining, people are dying, and we tried to
call Emma in Kampala, but in vain, is he in Goma. You know he doesn’t fear, I always
memories his motto that he jokingly share with us “You rather die of a bullet than a spiritual
death" We know he must be busy but we need him as you promised us. Although life is hard
but his preaching is vital and changes us so much, this is a testimony from many people.
If he links to you send our regards and tell him that we are highly waiting for him.
Louis Peter
Sudan
Dear Sr. Patti,
I am very happy to write this to you and our work here grows steadily. I will be sending some
new lists of new members in the Universal Living Rosary of Saint Philomena to you this week.
By the way the newly built website is lovely and meaningful. I also have subscribed for the
email news letter. We can indeed do wonders with the Lord and our Lady.
Your prayers are needed.

Your brother Deacon Andrew
Sri Lanka

Hello,
A friend of mine called Francis this morning showed me a small booklet "Dedicated Decades"
from The Universal living Rosary Association, Texas USA. It has a heading "Take this
Scapular! Let it be thy weapon and shield in battle!"
I haven't read much of it but i have the following requests;
I need the sacramentals from St. Philomena i.e. oils, scapular, etc for my three sickly children
- Olivia, Christopher and Laeticia (I lost their mother 03.05.2005 at about 2:30 p.m. that
day). I also need the sacramentals for my mother (Jemma) who is battling with cancer,
myself, and my friend Francis Olupot.
We are from Uganda. By the way I attended catholic minor seminary in the late seventies for
four good years.
What a gift and hope is Saint Philomena to the suffering and hopeless people of the world.
Regards.
Gilbert Odoki Okidi

Kampala
Uganda
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Dearest Mother Patti
Yes my dear mother, we try to give everyone who dress the Brown Scapular, take also a
decade in the Living Rosary, it is a miracle here in Lebanon with the Scapular of Our Lady,
many priests here who do the exorcism (get out the bad spirits), use the Scapular you
provide, they give me their testimonies, that the devil is very scared and terrible of the
Scapular, he can not see it and put it in the neck of the person who is possessed, he began to
shout very hard and in high voice to take off the Scapular of the person, the priest said to me
that the Scapular is very important now in their mission, and it is the will of Our Lady of
Fatima who wants that and help them to got the Scapulars, they give you so much thanks to
you, to the Universal Living Rosary of Saint Philomena, all her team, members and
benefactors, without your love and help, they can not successes in their Marial mission.
Now please I ask you dear mother, to send me more the big photos of our lovely Saint
Philomena, and small also, Her oil, cord with Her rosary, Her story in Arabic with her Litany, I
have a big demand for that, we will try to put in many churches in the Capital and others, Her
big photo. Please send always the boxes at the name of father Michael, to avoid the charge, I
keep you so much in my prayers, I send you my big love and gratitude. Salve Regina save us.
Your little son, slave of the Immaculata: john kayrouz. Lebanon.
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Dear Patti,
I am writing to you in an unsettled state-of-mind.
First I thank you for the boxes; I have dispatched them well to the diocese of Beni-Butembo.
The situation in the Congo is volatile. I am told that BBC and Al Jezzira TVs are showing the
carnage in Goma Congo, the whole stretch of the region is on unexploded fire. Nkunda and
his ruthless rebels supported by military hardware from Rwanda are in full scale war.
Patti .......allow me to hold my manly tears! What I have here is indescribable, I nearly
finished half of the MM box here with fleeing people, oh Mama, I have got a satellite call that
Pierre arrived safely in the jungles where Francis is, they cant access the internet as was the
case some time back, they are under a thicket forest that has, as I write, been penetrated by
the two warring parties.
I tell you a catastrophe is in the making. Good that all the sacramental items we sent them is
over now many people are praying to Our Lady. The main problem is the Holy Oil of Saint
Philomena, we sent is so little.
Many are in need of these, but the influx of refuges with demands for MM is also.
I say this with heavy heart and fear of hopelessness! In your eyes I might appear mad, but
this is what I am requesting before I leave the western side of Uganda, this is the time we
need to be so close. I am requesting you to get me an urgent sponsor to send me a box of
Saint Philomena holy oils and another of MM, about 20,000, to send to these people who are
crying inside, I have managed to establish another contact from here where I am. See these
people on the BBC News Reports to see for yourself, if possible. What I want to do is to
return to the other bunagana and send these things. The wounded are in dire need of the oils.
Who is in position, any one? Patti I am shaking and I can’t write well, let any one helps these
souls. Let me go to settle I will return to you when ok. Sorry for mistakes in writing
Emmanuel Kitandwe
Kampala, Uganda

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Dear Patti,
Hello! Praise God! October 25, 2008, was our advance culmination in the whole diocese
"Halad Kang Maria" (Offering to Mary) in the month of October whole parishes and sub
parishes attended the affair.
This time I was able to give more than two thousand new members with whom the
participants were most of them were high school students in the third year and fourth year
high school. They were organized as catholic charismatic youth movements.
Living rosary & St. Philomena were become famous through out our diocese. Rev. Fr. Jerry
Atil, a parish priest of sub parish of Buluangan requesting me about eight hundred rosary
beads, Rev. Fr. Johnny Lagdamen our spiritual chaplain of St. Philomena devotion, a parochial
vicar also requesting me again another eight hundred rosary beads to spread this Living
Rosary & St. Philomena devotion to one of our sub parish in Sipaway Island as a token in his
mass celebration and culmination activity as October the month of the rosary. Then in other
parishes in our diocese requesting me some more of rosary beads for their parishioner.
Seems everybody got involved and joined the Living Rosary & St. Philomena devotion.
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Cadiz City Jail Admin/ OPNS Portia J.
Gerarado joined and enrolled her inmate consisting of 125 people at the same time the
National Police Officers and members also joined the Living Rosary. More and more members
are coming and to be forwarded in the ULRA. Their heart lighted up a fire.
How I wish and prayed fervently that the Holy Spirit and St. Philomena devotion well spread
through out our diocese. May God bless Us All!!
Carmelita G. Baric
San Carlos City
Negros Occidental
Philippines
Dear Mother Patti
Thanks for your prayers!
The launching finally took place last Monday at the Girls College. Everthing worked well on
our favor. The sister and teachers of the College gave their support and in fact, one of the
staff had enrolled before and that made my entrance into the College very easy since
Canadians are not very easy to convince.
I took photos. Enrolment is on-going.
I received a report from one of our promoters in South West of Cameroon of a homosexual
who was healed through the cord and Oil of St. Philomena. He was dismissed out of Seminary
because of this act. And he never wanted to reveal this to anyone until he was again involved
in the same act with a small boy. It was only then that he revealed and confessed and
promised never to involve in this habit any more. He is constantly using the Oil and always
with his cord. He is promoting the group now more than ever.
I have a huge number of lists with me and these will be sent this coming week. You shall see
through the lists that I need more English and French boxes. And thank you for your letters
of August and September. The letters were encouraging to me.
I will inform you when the padded envelope arrives.
Thank you mother,
Paul E. EKpe
Yaounde-Cameroon
Africa
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

St Peter Claver Roman Catholic Parish
Malawi
Central Africa
Wednesday, 29th October, 2008
Dear Madam,
Re: acknowledgement of the package received
I write to expressly thank you, and appreciate your gift of Rosaries, holy oils, pictures,
scapulars and other religious items I have just received. Thank you very much. I have
distributed them all to various devout Christians, not only my Parish, but in the neighboring
Parish as well. However, here Christians are so many, thousands. Many sick people benefited
from the holy oils as well. Meanwhile Fr. Alfred Nsope is in Uganda for holidays, and will only
return on 10th November. The airlift box you sent me through him, has therefore, not yet
reached me. Please, kindly send me 1000 rosaries, 1000 scapulars, 1000 medals, 15 bottles
of holy oils, and 50 Pieta books at your earliest convenience. They are in great demand here.
I have more than once asked you too to help me with some Mass stipends. I really need them
to help me with my various pastoral endeavors here. Kindest regards. Ave Maria
Yours Sincerely,
f. remigius lazarus Kasawa, DP.

DP. = Diocesan Priest
Thanks thanks the spirit of our Foundress Ven Pauline Jaricot is with you! Viva! You are
wonderful!
I am just thinking the same way with you! Since my congregation have accepted my work in
Kenya and have given me a chance to promote the rosary everywhere in Kenya, I have to get
an office and a small chapel where I can always pray, a small land for a room for storing our
boxes and library, and an office, we can establish like Anthony in Kumasi Ghana, it will be
wonderful mum! I have that vision for what a long time but no financial help!
Now mum you are thinking!!! Bravo! Machokos people up till now no thanks, and the big
problem is that the bishop wants the money!
It is far inside the village, no post office no e-mail, I better look for a small land near town
here in Nairobi where we can call our place near a parish and it will be wonderful mum! I
want to give my life for this devotion!!! Forward ever!!!! Viva!!!
Let us see how we can move forward!! Thanks for thinking like me about Machokos! Bravo!!!
Ave Maria

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Patti dear,
I am still around. I have two weeks left, but I am already living in retreat as a preparation. I
am so excited I tell you. It will be the first time I make such a long retreat so I am wondering
how I will feel like. Thank you for the latest box you send. There were eight bottles of Saint
Philomena Holy Oil. They made me very happy since the others were getting finished. Many
people are showing up at my place. They now know where I am. So they come in dozens
asking for Saint Philomena Holy Oil. I tell you people are sick. I also discovered that the evil
spirits are working very hard here. So Saint Philomena is working hard, She has no time to
rest.
I thank you for the message of prayers. I am going to pray so much that heaven is going to
come down.
Patti let me say I will write a very long letter before I go. I have just posted the names today.
But I forgot the letter on my table. I have to write it here then.
Let us hope that there will be raining soon. Now the sky is still clear.
Yours in Mary Immaculata.

Sister Clara Rapholo s.c.i.m.
Lesotho
Dear Mrs. Patti
The Sacred Masses will be arranged tomorrow morning and I will send you the note of Sacred
Masses for the election tomorrow morning. I received the letter from Patricia and now when I
arrange the Sacred Masses then I send them immediately to you.
Dearest Mrs. Patti Yesterday I visited the bishop of Kolomiya diocese. It is very huge and very
populated diocese. The bishop told me that He is very happy with the work of Living Rosary
and he was asking Living Rosary to work more and spread the devotion more and more at the
territory of his diocese. I was called to come to diocese and to inform the bishop Nivkolas
about our work and achievement. Today I came back.
Please forgive me for the silent but I am working very hard and preparing to send you more
pictures and testimonies. The notes of Sacred Masses are on the way to you.
Now our web master is making some improvements in the design of the web page within two
days the web page will work again.
With the prayers and respect father Ivan Kolodiy
Father Ivan Kolodiy

Ukraine
Monday, October 27, 2008

Dearest Patti
The Nr.1 and Nr.2 envelopes are in the way to you.
Here is also the list of departed souls:
VERDE MIRCEA IOAN

DALABARBA MIRCEA
MIOARA MARIA ZORCA
GHEORGHE OLTEANU
OLTEANU ANA
REUT RADU
ELAINE CIESLAR
GANGIOVEANU ILIE
ARSENE GHEORGHE GANDI
PUIU VERDE
TURCAS IRINUCA
OLTEANU ANA
MUDICA ILIE
IOSIF OLTEANU
MOCANU ONISIE
MARIA MOCANU
JIMON PETRU PANTELIMON
Another envelope will come.
Thank you for your hard work for souls. The priests and believers in Transilvania are praying
for you and your wonderful ULTA team. One in prayer with you for honoring St. Philomena
and for the greater glory of Our Lord.
Monica
Romania
Saturday, October 25, 2008

Dear Patti,
Praise God and hail to our Blessed Mother whom we promote through the universal living
rosary association.
I received already the 19 lbs. box of religious articles, namely: list, luminous rosaries, set of
decade cards and rosary guides.
I read the guidelines and hopefully i could send you the list in a soon time when i could fill
them up.
Thank you very much and I’m so glad to receive more rosaries and other devotional articles
so that more in the nearby Barangay or places will be awakened to know the devotion to our
Blessed Mother and to the saints particularly St. Philomena and Ven. Pauline Jaricot.

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God bless us and more power to you. And may our Blessed Mother and St. Philomena always
intercede for you and for more devotees.
Sincerely yours,
Sister Josephine Fernandez, O.P.

Dominican School
Dagupan City
Philippines
Dear Patti,
I have just got your airlift of 900 rosaries and 900 medals, plus 100 vials of St. Philomena’s
Holy Oil. Thank you indeed so much. There were also bundles of membership cards. I actually
now have a good stock of membership cards to last 6 months. I suggest, next airlift you add
us more rosaries instead of cards.
There was a very nasty motor accident recently in Eastern Uganda...a bus and trailer affair.
One surviving girl related. When we setting off, the bus driver asked passengers what type of
music they wanted him to play them...this girl promptly replied church music. The chorus
from other passengers was emphatic no. Do you want to make this bus a church? She
resorted to praying her rosary with closed eyes. How the accident happened she couldn’t tell.
But 30 people were already dead......and she...not a scratch......power of the holy rosary.
Any vehicle is a boat capable of capsizing any minute. Our campaign here prays your rosary
continuously especially when moving.
May the lord rest their souls in peace.
Lawrence Esiangu
K U M I (U) East Africa

Greetings to you and the family also to all your staffs. Hope all are in good health, all are in
our prayers.
Thank you for the help that makes possible ULRA new members of the Universal Living
Rosary Association of Saint Philomena. I put all their complete names and addresses in the
labels will be sent together with 2nd October list for registration I mailed today.
Please only send these new members on the labels, forms, cards, rosary numbers and guide
so they can get started.
As all Forex sacramentals were already given to all our promoters and members for October.
Please send me more Rosaries because there are still thousand of list of members without
Rosary but I told them as we are not machine to wait until the time I will receive again from
our center.
All our Forex must be on my custody for safe keeping and protection of the sacred materials
as I work to no one but to you only. I will be responsible to give to all who need it under the
Archdiocese of Cebu. Thank you.
Please send more Rosary as members are waiting I will start giving them for the first week of
November. God Bless us all. Peace.
Respectfully yours,
Brother Arthur Villas

ULRA Promoter
Philippines
Finally I am getting to the end of my medical examinations and I had the Colonoscopy done
last Tuesday and the doctor found two polyps in the colon which may have eventually cause
cancer of the colon so he removed them, I thank the Good Lord that they were discovered in
time.
Once my profound gratitude to you for all that you have done since I arrived the U.S.
I lack words to express my gratitude to you so tomorrow which is Saturday I will offer Holy
MASS FOR YOU and your 94 year old Sr. Emerentia whom you doing so much to care for her.
May the Good Lord reward you a hundred fold.
With prayerful best wishes and God bless the great work you do for the spread of his
Kingdom.
Shalom.
Fr. Joseph Ayeah

Bowie
Maryland
United States
Thanks to God, today they arrived the 3 boxes safely, I will open them now and see them,
because my promoters needs them so much and I. Yes I will try to type the names of all the
new members of the Universal Living Rosary Association of Saint Philomena myself and send
them to you the next time, I am very happy the boxes of all the devotional items, holy cards,
rosaries, etc, they are now with us.
Please dearest mother Patti, continue sending to us the boxes, I include photos (see below),
and I prepare them. I keep you so much in my prayers with your dear mom, family, team,
dear benefactors especially Dr.Thomas and family.
I send you my love.
Suffering Heart and Immaculate of Mary, pray for us.
Your little son, slave of the suffering and Immaculate Heart of Mary,
John Kayrouz
Lebanon

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Dear Patti,
Please bless a team of 2,000 names of new devotees that are cruising their way by air to you.
Receive particularly a group from Western Kenya brought by our Promoter. Mary Ruth
Mabonga and a short list from up Mt Elgon. With them is my ardent prayer that Our Blessed
Mother together with Her Loving Daughter St Philomena will equip you with necessary tools to
arm them for Militia Immaculata.
May God Bless you always.
Lawrence Esiangu

Patti,
Peace be with you. I write to congratulate you on the wonderful job carried out on our
website. I had the opportunity of logging in this morning after my retreat and I must tell you
Patty it is great. May God bless you Patti for this wonderful initiative.
Attached to this mail is a list of thirty members that were recently registered. Take care and
keep on remembering me in your prayers. Ave!!!
Daniel Igono
Peru
Please click here to see the complete list of new members from Peru

Greetings with lots of praise to our God.
This is to inform you that Pray for us and thanks be to God for immediately we begun the
Saint Filomena Novena for God to hear our cries and requests, one of the members who had
refused to confess the truth that she had committed abortion, called me as a group leader
and shared with me and after which we arranged to meet the Priest.
Secondly, Caro whose husband refused not to wed and not to pay for dowry, through the
prayers of this lovely saint the husband has paid for dowry and ready to be prepared for a
wedding Caro says I am to thank you and the entire family of the Living Rosary for prayers.
Please, I am now in another new corner serving the Lord. Please, we don’t have a structure
but we sit down no chairs any benches but the members here love the word of God. Pray for
us that we may get funds to raise the church for the love of the Lord. I request for the
pictures of the way of the cross, please, they will be more useful for us here.
I can now move a longer distance to reach many Christians for the spread of the Living
Rosary after receiving a gift of a bicycle from Gail McSweeney, who visited the deaf poor
Orphan children, whom I serve and stay with. They are looking forward for Christmas
chocolate gifts from any well wisher. They too now know how to recite the Rosary.
God be with you.
Br. Chrispinus Masika Wachiye,

Faith Deaf Orphanage Education Centre
Bungoma - Kenya,
East Africa
Cheer Madam Patti,
Oui, thank you we don’t know how to do it, Pierre is here after 4month, we were worried but
you have done it, thanks for so much the two boxes, do you know, we now in trouble because
of the many desperate souls that are working and come out asking not to be forgotten on the
medals and rosaries and oil, You know, Pierre arrive four hours ago and everyone wait to
receive mother Mary protection. We don’t know what to do in supply of the things.
What we have see worry is that the oils are not enough, so many wounded by bullet and rape
and panga. Pray for us we are also pray you.
We so happy and cant write much today, rebels are also taking the medals by force!
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Dear Patti,
This is an urgent communication, I am here in Kasese where I arrived at 8.00 a.m. we moved
through the night in a faulty pickup. I am sharing what I have just worked out and the
experience I have got that involves some Congolese who have come to know me from the
Universal Living Rosary Association (ULRA) t-shirt I am wearing. I am going to Kasanga, i.e.
about 50kms form here and the place is 8kms from Mpondwe (another Congolese past).
The material I have is for the genuine people I will find in Kasese and Mbarara. However, I
am urgently requesting you to send to:
George William Ssenyonga

Kampala, Uganda
TWO boxes of MM and some blessed St. Philomena oil, I am going to send them inside in
another vast Congolese diocese, Butembo in the vast Ituri where fighting is also going on.
I have miraculously made the contact with the people there via radio, no better than in
Goma! These are the people that once wrote to you! They include a nun and a priest.
Currently they are also under hiding. The Hema tribe fighting alongside Uganda government
support! Men are castrated, girls are raped if not killed in the region 99% Catholic running,
and they have been seeking for the oils and MM.
A girl shared with me she escaped the fighting but her sister never survived, she was raped
and later bayoneted in the private parts. A certain catechist that has the holy oil of St.
Philomena gave her, she used it and she miraculously healed. So if you are in position to
diocese urgent requests, tell me.
For extreme urgency, send the boxes today, I will alert Mr. George William, he will
immediately put them on the bus to Bwera and I will get them. N.B For the funds you better
western Union them because my bank's branch is far from where I am.
Good idea to help the se people?
I am not putting you at gun point, you can decide. But if there is any one who can help and
sponsor, let us use one stone and hit two birds!
Pray for the Congolese!
Emmanuel Kitandwe
Kampala, Ugandahroi
+Ave Maria
My dear Patti:
God Bless you and make feel His great Love. I am so sorry for the delay on writing you. But I
had a lot of problems and cowardly I tried to solve them before spread the devotion.
I am a poor man who can’t preach with his own example. But I am so sorry.
You know, I have a pain in my back, and the doctor said me that it’s a nervous contracture. It
pains when I am get excited or anxious. And I had a little depression for all the matters...My
donkey Casimiro died on 6th Sept. the same day that my grandpa died, but a year later. My
spiritual life was broken, because I tried to pray, but I was not able to do this. So I thought
about God...Perhaps God is angry with me... But God, in a great act of Love, helped me in
difficult moments.
He is teaching me with a hammer. He is knocking me with a great power but not for hurt me.
He wants I become a good slave and a good Christian. Now I know.
In the other hand, I never left the devotion at all. I founded a brotherhood here in Madrid. Its
name is POOR BROTHERS OF SAINT PHILOMENA. It’s a help foundation for the people who
need some help (homeless, drug addicts, alcoholic people, etc) and we are spreading St.
Philomena’s devotion. But we need more time...we are now just starting here.
You know that you are my spiritual mother. A good example of courage and love. I am so
proud because I am a member of the Living Rosary Family.
Oh, in the other hand, I will start the Deacon’s studies next year. Now I am helping in my
parish.
It’s all at the moment. Thank you very much for your patience and all your love. You’re
humbly son in Lord:
Santi.
ROSARIO VIVIENTE DE SANTA FILOMENAESPAÑA E HISPANOAMÉRICA Santiago Peláez
MADRID-ESPAÑAEUROPA
Dearest Mrs. Patti
I would like to inform you that I will arrange the Gregorian Sacred Masses for all our
Benefactors and our members. This will be my pleasure and I would like to assist you in
every possible way. Dearest Mrs. Patti I will send you the pictures and report on Wednesday
because our computer was broken today and we need to fix it and then i will be able to send
you these pictures. Also this Sunday we open new center of Living Rosary in the city
Khorostkyv which has 10,000 citizens and we sent them the sacramentals, prayer books and
newspapers. Tomorrow morning I send you the new newspapers and all the published
materials which we published in Ukraine. Also I prepared the testimonies and some sharing
news about the life in Ukraine and reposed members when i fix the computer on Wednesday
then i will send you immediately.
I am looking forward to hear from you and May God bless you and protect you with the
prayers and respect father Ivan Kolodiy.
Ukraine

Million thanks for the another two packages, one arrived from the ordinary P.O. in Myanmar
and another one arrived through the address of Father Mark Phebyah in Thailand which
contained more Holy Rosaries, Scapulars, Medals and Mass Stipend of (20) EURO. May I
assure you to fulfill all the intentions of the donors.
Father Matteo Boi also has received four packages from you today through the same address
of Father Mark Phebyah. Through this address everything inside the packages is completed.
So, let us always use through this address whenever you would send us anything, though it
may take more time in order to reach us.
At the present moment, we are in our Annual Retreat and we are praying for you as well as
for all our members of the Living Rosary Association. Let me stop here. Hope to write you
soon again.
Thanking you again and praying for you.
Good luck and good health and God bless!

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Fr. Paul Maphroi

Myanmar

JMJ
Hello,
A friend from my parish gave me a copy of the summer 2008 issue of "Dedicated Decades"
and I was thrilled to see sound Catholic doctrine in the articles. This publication is sorely
needed and may God bless you richly for your labors.
I will be sending in paperwork to join the ULRA and would like to spread this devotion to
others. How would I obtain handouts or extra copies of the "Dedicated Decades" magazine?
Yours in Jesus and Mary,
Helen VanKeulen
"Let us fight and fear nothing. Remember that the enemies of GOD will vanish and the Church
will prevail. Tell everybody that though we suffer, we will never be defeated."
Blessed Pope Pius IX, speaking to the Youth Group of Catholic Action

I want to congratulate you for the new website. Really it is a marvelous work done. I have
not gone through all of the pages yet but it shows that some hard work has been done.
Have you sent me an airlift in the previous days (5 or 6 days)? I was waiting for it.
Tomorrow, I am going to leave for Rahim Yar Khan and then to Sukkur and Karachi. I will
return back on 23rd. I will again leave for Boora and Vehari from 24th to 27th. I therefore
needed many things.
I am sorry; I could not send you the pictures. Now I have collected all the pictures of
previous three months and hope to send you tomorrow.
Please remember to send the CD's I requested in my previous mails.
Congratulations
Once Again To You,
Your Team,
Your Family
And
All The Benefactors
Or
Persons
Who Helped For This Site.
Father Afzaal Anwar Khokhar

Pakistan
Thanks Patti for your message;
Congratulations for the attractive and very interesting web site.
In unity of prayers:
Manuel
Helou Emmanuel
Jerusalem
Assistant to the Consul General
Dear and Loving Sr.Patti,
I visited in entirety your new website. It is totally completely of our Mission.
Excellently done. I am attempting one for India needs.
We thank God for all those who helped you in this masterpiece.
I await your Message for All India Conference. From Pak 5 (Afzaal, one priest, one nun and
two lay ladies) are attending. Hope Mr. Marques Silva too will participate. Maria Rose, Delhi
participation not confirmed because of her health condition,
With love and prayers

Kjroche
India

To The Universal Living Rosary Association
Dearest Mrs. Patti I send you the new members for September (see attached document).
Please forgive me for the delay. It took some time to recheck and receive all the new
members’ lists for September.
Dear Mrs. Patti the Sacred Masses are arranged and i send you on Monday all the notes to
you via most mail.
Your web site is absolutely gorgeous. Wow. It is so impressive and the best web site. I am
very impressed with the work which you are doing. You are great source of inspiration for me.
Please let me know how are you doing?
With the prayers and respect father Ivan Kolodiy
Father Ivan Kolodiy

79008 Ukraine
Europe
Click here to see the document with the new members >>>

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Dear Patti,
A very good day to you. I wish to acknowledge with immense gratitude the receipt of your
parcel containing your letter of 13th June 2008 from my friend Fr Jude Orakwe. I am very
sorry I could not do this earlier thank now. I have been on sick bed since last July, and Fr
Jude was away for summer holiday at Germany. Your letter was so consoling. It was as if you
knew what I was passing through at Gemeli (Catholic University Teaching Hospital of the
Sacred Heart, Rome) Thank you so much for such comforting words and for your prayers. I
am feeling the impact of your prayers now.
Thanks too for the parcels you sent and for all the items inside. I am very much appreciative
of them all. I joyfully say my PRESENTATION DECADE everyday.
I pray God to continue to bless you and this wonderful apostolate of your. Please do pray for
me and all who were involved in that accident. Am yet to recover fully. The pain has
drastically reduced. God his faithful! Be assured of a particular remembrance in my Masses.
May God bless and confirm your good works for humanity.
Fr John Andem
Rome

To The Universal Living Rosary Association
Greetings of Peace and Love!!!!!!!
The first time I heard the name St. Philomena was in our church here in Danao City. When I
sat at the back portion waiting for the holy mass to start. I heard about the name of St.
Philomena uttered by the two ladies sitting at the back of me. Then, it just that. After how
many weeks had passed, I was preparing foods for lunch. I went out for a while to buy
something. On my way home, I saw a picture of a very beautiful woman place inside the
store. Until I got to the little store, I stand there and keep on staring the picture. Suddenly,
the owner of the store asked me what I am looking for.
Till she noticed, my eyes keep staring the picture. She smiled and told me it was St.
Philomena. She handed me and let me borrow the Dedicated Decades magazine (spring
2008). I was very happy, then. I read the DD from cover to cover and it was really amazing.
You inspired me a lot where problems are arising.
I don’t know where to go... I’m the eldest in the family. My father had a stroke last Sept. 1,
2007. The doctors found out that there was a blood clot in his brain that made him paralyzed.
We don’t even have the money to buy his medication up to this time. We just give him herbal
plants that can be found in our surrounding. As with my mother, she also has a medication
monthly. It costs a lot. The name is Seretide Diskus 250. I am jobless and I don’t know
where to go. But praised God Jesus Christ!!!!!! He gave me the chance to read the DD. Please
enroll me in the Living Rosary. I wish to hear more about St. Philomena, too. She’s truly a
wonder worker!!!! Please send me the Holy cord, miraculuos medals, Holy oil, scapulars, and
crucifixes, for the future of the family. Also I need a copy on how to say the novena prayer of
St. Philomena. I am waiting for your goodness. May God bless you, all.
Yours, in Jesus and Mary forever and ever, Amen.

Rachel C. Durano
Danao City Cebu
Philippines
Dearest Mother Patti,
It's a wonderful new website of the Living Rosary, I will take my time to read it all and
understand it good, I am very happy to this website, I prepare all the lists and the photos
also ,but I wait the arriving of any box to take the new photos. I pray you are good with
your dear mom, team, I pray always to Dr. Thomas and his family, and to all our dear
benefactors, to all your effort and sacrifices for all the missions in all the world and here.
I send you with my sister all our poor prayers, love, and gratitude.
Ave Maria.
Your little son,

Slave of the Immaculata,
John Kayrouz
Lebanon

Dear Patti,
God bless! I already received the letter of Teresita Aller. She told me all about it. So no
second thought I sent right away my donations in the amount of one thousand five hundred
pesos (P1, 500) for the St. Philomena cord & oil; etc. as my initial deposit through LBC. I will
just send a monthly donation of one thousand more or less through LBC to Teresita Aller.
By the way we print a St. Philomena t-shirts as our identity that we promoting the "Living
Rosary" and the devotion of St. Philomena elsewhere. Is it okay?
Our Parish rector, our parish vicar is very happy about the St. Philomena T-shirt. They were
very happy to wear it especially when they go to different chapels in our mountain chapels to
celebrate masses there. Another more thankful heart from our parish rector & vicars for they
really love to use the altar things as they celebrated masses. They were very thankful.
Our bishop, Rev. Bishop Jose Advincula Jr. was surprised and very happy upon seeing using
the sets of ciborium as he celebrated the mass as he ordained our new priest Rev. Father
Froilan Tamayo.
Year 2008, were a graceful year for everyone in the diocese, for the old and new priest and
for every priest were benefited of the vestment, sacramentals and other altar things. They
also say that their prayers and masses were offered to the director of the living rosary no
other than our very own Patti Melvin & family.
Carmelita G. Baric
V. Gustilo St.
San Carlos City
Negros Occidental
6127, Philippines

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Hi Patti
Thank you so very much for the wonderful box of sacramentals and reading materials, which
I received in the post on Friday, 10th Oct, and fetched the box on Saturday, 11th Oct, from
post office. The box was all in tact. And the letter which you sent as well with the weight
record is the same on the box. All is fine. Thank you so much. It's a real pleasure and joy to
receive these wonderful sacramentals, which in turn are given to those who are seeking God,
and grateful to receive these free sacramentals and to pray daily their dedicated decade and
Rosary prayer. I must now send you the (60) sixty names of the new members a.s.a.p. Keep
well and God bless you and all the helpers of The Universal Living Rosary of St. Philomena
and all the members around the world. God Bless all. Your kindness and generosity are most
appreciated. Keeping you in my prayers.
Best regards
Jennifer in Botswana

Dearest Mrs. Patti I want to announce very important and joyful news. The first of all I would
like to inform you that the Living Rosary is launched in Spain. Almost 200 new members are
enrolled in Spain. All of them were joined the Living Rosary the last weekend. We have two
local leaders in Spain. The next week I am going to receive their enrollment names and some
pictures which I will send to you. The Local leaders are Mrs. Nataliya Nakonechna and Olha.
Also I want to inform that The Living Rosary was launched in Portugal. There are some
Ukrainian migrants who launched the Living Rosary in Portugal. The local leader name is
Nadiya Umanska. She lives in Fatima Spain. There are some Ukrainian local communities at
the base of which the people receive our newspapers and pray the Dedicated Decades. All the
members of LR are from Ukraine.
Dear Mrs. Patti I send you the samples of the Tritium Sacred Mass card. The cards are
remade and please give your suggestions and approve it
I am looking forward to hear from you and May God bless you dearest Mrs. Patti
With the prayers and respect father Ivan Kolodiy.
Father Ivan Kolodiy

Post Office Box - 841
Lviv - 8
79008 Ukraine
Europe
Please click here to view Father Kolodiy’s Tritium Mass Card

Thank you so much for your mail, we thank and glorify God that everything is now going on
successfully.
On the other hand, thank you for leading me to your restored website which so wonderful and
fascinating, Congratulations!
Since the operation I had not visited the site, so I have found marvelous pages and other
services.
May GOD continue to bless you and your activities save individual soul!
My heartiest and warmest wishes and salutations to you and all. Yours sincerely.
JKAsamoah
France
Dearest Patti,
I heartily thank you very much for the box of sacramentals you sent on 30th September
2008. I have just received it. Thank you very much also for the shirt with the logo of our
lovely Saint Philomena at the back of the shirt, and the globe surrounded by a holy Rosary in
the front of it. I will wear it every time I go spreading Living Rosary. Tomorrow morning I will
attend the morning Holy Mass, and then I will have our priest bless the shirt with the picture
of our lovely Saint Philomena you sent at the church.
I also enroll a group of those who want to join Living Rosary, and now I am typing their
names and their daily Decades in their membership cards, and I will send them to you
tomorrow afternoon. And concerning some of the prayers texts translated from English into
Indonesian will be sent to you the day after tomorrow by post office. I will include some of
the photos too.
Concerning my health: I thank our Saint Philomena for her powerful intercession, I gain my
health again, and I have no more problems driving the motorcycle myself. I and family pray
rosary together daily, and the members of Living Rosary are also very happy to recite their
Decades daily. You and family, and all Staffs, all benefactors are in our prayers.
Few days ago I went to my friends places and I introduced Living Rosary to them. After I
introduced them about Saint Philomena, holy Oil, and the Cords, and how to use them, how
to pray the Chaplet, they decided to join us. And they asked me to introduce this to more
young people in some Parishes. They told me that they would help me spread Living Rosary
in their Parishes.
Dearest Patti, Three nights ago there was a man (he is also the member of Living Rosary and
he and his wife often come to my house) came to my house to my house, and we talked a lot
about Living Rosary. He told me that there will be many people in his region want to join
Living Rosary and I plan to go with him to his hometown where he was born and to some
other places there to spread Living Rosary. If you think it possible, could you help us send me
three thousand Rosaries, and three thousand MM. I will be very thankful if you can find the
ways to have these sacramentals and send them to me. I pray and hope that you can help
me with some fund too as I am really in great difficulty. I thank you very very much for this.
I think that is all for now and it is 9 o'clock at night time, and I must go home now. All the
best to you and family, to your dear mother, to The Slater’s, all Staffs, and all benefactors of
ULRA from me and family and the members of living Rosary. Our prayers are with you! Our
Blessed Virgin Mary and our lovely Saint Philomena protect us.
Our union in prayers,
Melikior Kari and family,

Oebufu, Kupang, Timor, NTT,
Indonesia

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79008 Ukraine

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It is my humble pleasure to inform you that some lists went off this morning. Hope they
arrive safe.
I will inform you when the padded envelope arrives.
A promoter was operated upon and to the surprise of everyone including the Doctor she was
able to walk around the next day, thanks to the Oil and cord of St. Philomena. She asked that
I pass on this testimony to you.
Another promoter came to our Center to say and to thank St. Philomena because according
to him, since he became a member of the ULRA, his life has really changed. He got married.
Again, at the same time his wife gave birth to a healthy baby boy, also, he bought a new car.
All things he is thanking St. Philomena. He is involved in enrollment. He supported our work
with the sum of $9:00.
This morning I went to the General Hospital Yaounde to pray for one of our members who has
cancer of the spine cord. I took the Chaplain of the Hospital to give him Communion and to
hear his confession.
The sisters testified that last Saturday that I went to pray with them that he has greatly
improved, thanks to the Oil and cord that I applied on him that day.

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Thanks very much Mother for your support and prayers.
Ave Maria!
Paul E. EKpe
Yaounde- Cameroon
Africa
They call these darling children the “Lilies of Our Lady”. Each one has received a luminous
Rosary and a Miraculous Medal. Our country is going through a war crisis. Another round of
war is threatening. We are confident that Our Immaculate Mother will shield us through the
weapons of peace you have provided for our children and us. Thank you a million times over!
Theresia, Asmara, AFRICA
I am in trouble with my people who want Dedicated Rosaries. They beg me every day and I
promise to enroll them but, at the moment, I have nothing, no cards and no Rosaries. Please
help me!
Sr. Mary Jane Zuma, ASHWOOD
May God bless your work, your family and friends and all that you touch and do!
Carmen Polder, GERMANY

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Fr. Patrick is the ULRA leader for Kenya. He had visited France and he visited Pauline's home
in Lyon.

How are you nowadays, thank you for coming to the Month of Mother Mary. We in Sudan,
have so many expectations ;especially of the day of the FEAST OF THE HOLY ROSARY that
you shared that you will be launching a NEW website fort the missionary work amongst the
un privileged ! Surly I beg to advise you to put as many photos from Sudan as possible! So
that people see the dire situation we are living in at the expense of the Arab Islamists who
are persecuting to Islamise and exterminate the indigenous Africans from Sudan.
Through Emmanuel, you are our lifeline!
We shall remember you tomorrow most especially.
We need Emma
Taban John
Sudan
Dear Director Patti Melvin,
I shared everything I learned about ULRA and St Philomena. I feel so good when I saw all the
sisters were reading the stories, and everything that you have sent after our community
activity. We are inspired to know more about the life of Blessed Pauline Jaricot and St.
Philomena (to be sincere, we do not know so much about them). Our superior had already
made a research in the internet on this matter. Thanks to ULRA
I was able to form four rosary groups that will start praying the assigned decades tomorrow
Oct. 7, 2008, the feast of the Holy Rosary. I will also send the form filled up tomorrow, by
mail. May our Lord will send and inspired you with more enthusiasm and more donors. I
really thank God for you...I already shared the oil to the sick...I will start to wear the cord
tomorrow. I will really help to spread the devotion of the Universal Living Rosary and to St.
Philomena. I wish I can have time to visit St. Filomena Barangay High School, Madredijos,
Alegria Cebu Philippines, the place of my father to share her story to the students
I think St. Philomena would really like to be known and to protect me by revealing her great
love to God. Inspiring!
I was so happy to see the name of my professor in Rome, Fr. Redemptus Valabek in one of
your leaflets.
With love and prayers,

Mindanao Ave., Ayala Alabang Vill., Muntinlupa City
1780 Philippines

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Dear Patti,
Thank you very, very much for that gift...I can now go for my eyes...and the money also
helped me transport our dear promoter, Faith Mabonga, back to Western Kenya. She did
come with a fat list of new devotees...literally swept my thin stock of sacramentals pray you
will send me more especially for month of Mary and her Rosary...our weapon. She went also
with St. Philomena T-shirt you had sent me earlier...The extra bits of special sacramentals do
a good job of making the Living Rosary known and loved.
Now, you must definitely hear this dear Patti....St. Philomena Oil helped deliver the fourth set
of twins to William family. The husband works with security where his services are demanded
24 hours. His wife, Rose has so far delivered twins now four times. Doctors were advising
them to be near main hospital...That spelt MONEY and the wife was more worried about
whom to leave with other young ones...so she would not tell husband when labor pains start.
However both put their trust in St. Philomena. The D-day arrived with husband moving to
duty and wife peacefully resting.
When pains started, she was getting ready to move to dispensary nearby. But no, baby came
out just when she was at doorway and she had to hold it back to bed. News spread fast and
husband panicked looking for transport....Second baby was hard on coming but when mom
applied St. Philomena Oil baby boy joined his sister firstborn of two.
Couple is most grateful to you for showing them St. Philomena...The new twins are going to
be baptized Mary and Joseph...GLORY TO GOD IN HIS SAINTS
Lawrence Esiangu
May the peace of the Lord be with you all at the Centre!!!!
Ave Maria! The UPS box arrived safely with all the lovely heavenly gifts.
October is the month for encouraging Catholic families to pray the Holy Rosary here. Our
network of helpers here is active in registering and taking gifts to our new members. I thank
you very much for St. Philomena's Oil and Gift Packs. The demand is high here for the
Healing Oil and I am going out distributing them to the sick and giving them to the nuns in
my Parish to do the same. We are so happy to also receive the gifts of these banners of St.
Philomena and Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot pictures. They are lovely and I am taking one
of St. Philomena to present to Sacred Heart Primary School were most of the students joined
the Living Rosary. They love St. Philomena, and 23, student, staff and teachers are helpers
who are bringing in new members every month. Thank you for the beautiful T shirts. Thank
you for the 2 sets of the Station of the Cross, I will be giving one set to my Parish new
Church building.
I keep a sample of new information and most of them go to our helpers to distribute and
promote the ULRA work in the communities were they live and work.
Once again
Thank you very much!!!!!
May God bless you all!!!!!!!
Sabina Fuluvii
National Capital District
Papua New Guinea

Dear Sr. Patti,
It is with lot of happiness I write to you today 4th Oct. I was ordained a Deacon by the
Archbishop. Thank you for your prayers and of all the members. Especial thanks to our little
princess. Ordination to Priesthood will be on 20th Dec. Pray and mine will be for you all. I will
send some photos and other new lists.
Brother Andrew.
Bro. A. Uthayadas
Sri Lanka
NOTE: Brother Andrew is soon to be ordained. He a representative for the Universal Living
Rosary Association of Saint Philomena in Sri Lanka.

Dear Mother Patti,
Glad that you are back to work after the hurricane Ike. I also thank God that our Universal
Center did not suffer any loss of equipment or damage. And that you now have power after
two weeks without it, to get to work.
In fact, I was already imagining what had happened to the Center when I learnt that Texas
was affected with the Hurricane, and that the storm eye passed right over your center.
I received today 2 boxes with French 15s and Scapulars, Oil and cord, 7 posters, (2
Immaculate Heart of Mary, 2 Pauline Marie Jaricot, 2 St. Philomena and 1 St. Michael the
Archangel), Dedicated Decades and leaflets and novenas, registration and pamphlets. The
posters are very beautiful.
The English like the French 15s and novenas are very helpful hence enrollment for the Month
of October devotion is going to be highly promoted. They are helpful because our School
project is going to begin this Month too.
I am very pleased to report that many parents testified that St. Philomena through the oil
and cord helped their children pass their end of the year examinations.
The issue of bad dreams I reported to you previously, many were also delivered from such
devilish attacks.
Once again, I’m so happy that the Center is back to service after the Hurricane occurrence.
More so, I’m highly delighted that Rev. Sr. Mary Laurence of Liberia received her box and that
she is interested to spread the devotion. I have written to her to see her Bishop so as to work
in collaboration with the Church.
Lists will be off this coming week. And I hope you got the previous ones I sent.
Ave Maria!
Paul E.Ekpe
Yaounde-Cameroon

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Africa

Philippines - City of San Fernando, La Union
I am back in my work and I am healed. Thank you so much Madam Patti and your staff for
sharing me the secrets of Jesus through Mama Mary, St. Joseph and Saint Filomena. With the
strength I have I believe I can continue our mission. Thank you so much for sharing me the
blessings to my sister Elizabeth "Maestra Lanying" Bello. We are now partners in the mission
for apostleship.
We would like to give you initial report we did last week and still on going this whole month of
October.
October is Rosary Month. In observance for this very significant church calendar. The ULRA
members of DMMMSU Laboratory High School and some college students will conduct a daily
recitation of the Holy Rosary and the Chaplet of Saint Filomena for the whole month this
October.
We had our distribution of rosaries last week and the blessings of the rosaries were done
yesterday...here in DMMMSU Mid La Union Campus. This campus has almost 5,000 to 6,000
students but not all were given rosaries yet.
My sister, Elizabeth "Maestra Lanying" Bello of Saint Louis College will conduct the big event
tomorrow, October 2, 2008. They are busy preparing the activity which will include the
distribution of rosaries to the faculty and college students (nursing, engineering, education,
commerce, architecture, and hotel and restaurant students). It has a population of 2,500 plus.
The students were so happy when they were putting up the religious articles and all the
religious reading materials for the exhibits tomorrow. We will send you all the documentation.
Our DMMMSU Chaplain, SVD priest got three hundred rosaries for the people in the Mountain
Province particularly Apayao and Ifugao. I was touched when Father Chaplain shared me a
beautiful testimony of the power of rosary. To make the story short this group of people was
attached by insurgents (NPA) and the group of people was gathered in one place but when
the insurgents started to shoot them with their guns, a huge cloud came down to cover the
people and so they were then saved and protected and the insurgents couldn't believe what
happened. This testimony was shared by our Father Chaplain for which reason he asked some
rosaries for his parishioners there because they believe of the power and the miraculous
secret of praying together the rosary.
Madam, we need more rosaries and crucifix if you have. Our rosaries are not enough for our
community and barrio immersion and extension programs. We have also designed a
catechetical lessons- teaching how to pray the rosaries and making the sign of the cross
properly. This is integrated in our community extension program.
Our community here in the City of San Fernando, La Union needs more rosaries. Even the
different schools here would like to have rosaries so please give us more.
Hope that our request will be considered soonest.
This is all for our ULRA - all for Jesus the Lord through Mama Mary and Saint Joseph and
Saint Filomena and all the saints.
Ave Maria!
Let us continue praying for one another always!
I believe I am now a cancer survivor...thank you so much!
Our love and prayers,

Ma. Cleofe F. Bello and
Elizabeth "Maestra Lanying" Bello
Philippines
Happy feast of St. Therese!
Dear, Patti
Thanks for your replay, I am fine and all members are keeping you in our prayer. This time
we have many new members who wanted to be come our Living Rosary group. Specially the
most of them are Philipino Communities those who are living in Jerusalem. Please if you send
them form of list and Rosary we will be grateful. You are always in our heart.
May God bless you ...
Dear, Patti, I wish you a Happy feast ...of our Little St. Theresa of Lisieux.
Br. Fikremariam Philipos

Monastery of Ratisbonne
9172 Jerusalem/ Israel
Greetings from Liberia!
I believe sincerely that under Mother Mary's mantle, God wants this devotion to spread in
Liberia!
Between communications from you and our local post office over these many weeks, I was
finally able to get the package today!!! Is this a coincidence on the first day of the month
dedicated to the Holy Rosary?
Please keep me in your special prayers, that I may be the best instrument I can be in
spreading this devoton for God's glory ad honor of our Beloved Mother Mary.
Blessings aways
Sister Mary Laurene

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Jesus Christ the King.

Why are donations so very , very important?

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you would like to donate securities.

How We Got Started (By Patti Melvin)

feast day with a beautiful cake decorated in her honor.

uplifting and instructive.

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it to all the world and back, again, to Italy.

mission of the Living Rosary was spread throughout the world.

we were able to send was returned to us by the Rector.

the home in France.

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with faith, hope and joy, their heavy daily burdens.

bosom of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Rev. Jose Fernandez

St. Paul Cursillo Center

4000 Belk, Houston, TX 77087

PHONE: (713) 643-7682

FAX: (713) 643-0030

November 29th, 2002

To Whom it May Concern:

strength for all Christians.

All the best to you during this holy Season,

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Rev. Fr. Jose Fernandez, Director

November 13, 2008

Daniel Cardinal DiNardo

1700 San Jacinto

Houston, Texas 77002

Click here to see the letter

Letter from Cardinal Otunga

The History of the Universal Arch

was born and raised to Universal, all in Paris France.

In France, after the death of the Holy Curé of

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as we know Christianity to be from the evangelical teachings of the Church. With

from the headquarters in Paris. This publication spread devotion to her

throughout the entire world.

Sanctuary at Mugnano, it spreads her devotion throughout the world.

In testimony of the above, we publish the following letter:

Very Reverend Father Rector, everywhere to England there can be found

be established in this country. In the diocese of Leads there is a priest, looked

Confraternity should it eventuate. He would like to know if there is in existence a

by Pope Leo XIII, November, 1886

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innumerable graces and continual prodigies."

and without value, whatever the authority might be…"

Aims of the Work of Saint Philomena

(Universal Arch Confraternity)

The Work of Saint Philomena is an association of prayer and apostolate which

Commitment to a life according to the Gospel of Christ in the intentions which

patronage of Saint Philomena and the Holy Curé of Ars:

Promotion of the Gospel message in the world of work.

Christian education of children and youth.

Prayer for vocations and the sanctification of the clergy.

Voice of Saint Philomena.

have confided themselves to the protection of Saint Philomena. The Little

since prayer is the great force in the world.

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2. Members: These place themselves under the protection of Saint Phil0omena.

great intentions that the Church has entrusted to the Association.

3. Members of The Cord of Saint Philomena: Members of the Archconfraternity