Saint Philip Neri and Paolo Massimo: A Rome Miracle With a Court Record

Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome

On March 16, 1583, in Rome, a fourteen-year-old boy named Paolo Massimo, son of Prince Fabrizio Massimo, died. According to the Birmingham Oratory, he had been dead about half an hour when Saint Philip Neri arrived, called away from saying Mass. The account In the version told by Pietro Giacomo Bacci in his Life of … Read more