Could you provide a link to your post?
I would like to see what the Catholic Encyclopedia used as a source for this.
Pope Gregory XVI authorized liturgical veneration for St. Philomena. On 14 February 1961, the Holy See ordered that the name of Saint Philomena be removed from all the liturgical calendars that mentioned her.
Apparently the Vatican doesn’t read the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Here is the link. I only excerpted briefly:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364b.htm
“Pope Gregory XVI authorized liturgical veneration for St. Philomena. On 14 February 1961, the Holy See ordered that the name of Saint Philomena be removed from all the liturgical calendars that mentioned her.”
Removing someone from the calendar doesn't make someone an ex-saint.
As well, in the case of St. Philomena, I don't believe that she was ever actually canonized. Though called a saint, it appears that her cultus was local and permitted, not universal and commanded. Here is wiki:
“On 13 January 1837, in the aftermath of the cure of Venerable Pauline Jaricot, Pope Gregory XVI authorized liturgical celebration of Philomena on 11 August[8][10] or, according to another source, originally on 9 September,[7] first in the Diocese of Nola (to which Mugnano del Cardinale belongs), and soon in several other dioceses in Italy.
“This permission that Pope Gregory XVI gave on 13 January 1837 for public celebration of Philomena in some limited places, not throughout the Church, has been interpreted as ‘raising Saint Philomena to the altars of the universal Church’, a liturgical act proper only to a canonized saint.[13][not in citation given] The name of this Philomena was never included in the Roman Martyrology, the official list of saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church and in which the saints are included immediately upon canonization.”
Thus, it appears that “St.” Philomena was never formally canonized.
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