It is fitting, then, that his spiritual epiphany happened there at Pentecost. Asking God for the gift of the Holy Spirit, it came down as a great ball of fire, entering through his mouth and settling ...
On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Philip Neri, Apostle of Rome, Founder of the Oratory. Philip Neri was born in Florence in 1515. At the age of 17, unable to endure life under the Medici, he ...
The saint, whose feast day falls on May 26, also realized that Rome’s people were suffering from a spiritual sickness. Pilgrims pray in front of St. Peter's Basilica (photo: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA / ...
When St. Philip Neri came to Rome from Florence in 1533, he encountered a city in upheaval. The Sack of Rome six years prior had left famine and plague in its wake. The Protestant Reformation was in ...
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