Episode 135 -- Life of St Philip XI.135 -- Philip like Peter and Miraculous Cloths

Did second class relics of St Philip ever work miracles during St Philip's life time?

Yes. We will read about a person who was healed by touching a piece of linen with St Philip's blood on it to the infected part. Why would God work such a miracle? He wanted to convince people that St Philip was a man of God. He wanted to convince people that the Church still possessed holiness.

Last episode we read about how the Oratory spread to other cities in Italy and even to France and Sicily. But the Oratory was very unlike all the other Congregations that had been founded for priests. There was no centralization. Each house, except for a few and for a short time, was independent. They were founded on the Roman model. They were founded with the spirit of St Philip. But each is its own family. A man joins one house, one Oratory, and stays there his whole life. Thus, we try to imitate St Philip who lived in Rome for sixty years.