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Saint

Philomena

A virgin honored in the Marche region of Italy, reposed around 500.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Reposed
5005th century
Place
Ancona

Life

Saint Philomena is venerated as a virgin in the Marche region of Italy, at San Severino near Ancona. The calendars place her around the year 500. Our sources preserve no account of her life.

She is commemorated on 5 July as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day July 5