FOR MY BIRTHDAY, I'D LOVE...
...were you to consider purchasing and making known, Wonder Worker, British author, Cecily Hallack's biography of St Philomena and magnum opus. Newly edited and forwarded by Dr Keith Berube. I'm enraptured in particular by how devotion to Philomena spread in France. Philomena's first major disciple was Pauline Jaricot, a native of Lyon. She was born into wealth, her father had a silk factory and she was a socialite in her youth. Pauline had grave health problems before she went on a pilgrimage to Mugnano, venerated Philomena's relics and then enjoyed a miraculous healing. Before she'd been laid low with a life-threatening heart condition, merciless palpitations, dire exhaustion and extreme trouble breathing. Pauline was beatified in 2022, and her heart examined by pathologists to determine the veracity of the miracle she received through the intercession of Philomena and it was concluded that her heart was free of the defects that had plagued her before she...
