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Saint Philomena.. 1.10

Saint Philomena.. 1.10

For those who do not know her story...
Philomena is the patron saint of infants, babies, and youth. She was a Greek princess, martyred at 13 years of age by Diocletian, who was Roman Emperor from 284 to 305.

Saint Philomena told her she was the daughter of a king in Greece who, with his wife, had converted to Christianity. At the age of about 13, she took a vow of consecrated virginity. When the Emperor Diocletian threatened to make war on her father, her father went with his family to Rome to ask for peace. The Emperor "fell in love" with the young St. Philomena and, when she refused to be his wife, subjected her to a series of torments: scourging, from whose effects two angels cured her; drowning with an anchor attached to her (two angels cut the rope and raised her to the river bank); being shot with arrows, (on the first occasion her wounds were healed; on the second, the arrows turned aside; and on the third, they returned and killed six of the archers.)