Philip Neri was a priest in the 16th century known for his humor, charity, and prayer life. Hoping to go to India, Philip was guided instead to re-evangelize a corrupt and decadent Rome. He is ...
What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.
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 ...
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 ...
St. Philip Neri’s portrait pinned on the author’s cubicle wall between other keepsakes. I think about St. Philip Neri often. I am quick to share the fun fact, with friends Catholic or otherwise, that ...
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