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unusual facts about St. Philip Neri



Forty Hours' Devotion

Already before the year 1550 this, or some analogous exposition, had been established by St. Philip Neri for the Confraternity of the Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome; while St. Ignatius Loyola, at encouraged to the practice of exposing the Blessed Sacrament during the carnival as an act of expiation for the sins committed at that season.

Old Catholic Confederation

Much like the constitution of the Society of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, the priests of the Old Catholic Confederation remain priests of their diocese but form a community.


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