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The meaning of St Philip’s glasses case At The Amish Catholic, Rick Yoder said that on a visit to the Birmingham Oratory he was moved by the sight of St Philip Neri’s spectacle case. “Of all the glorious relics I saw that day – some encrusted in gold, some taken from rare and holy men, some evoking the perilous lives of saints who lived in a more heroic age – it was this humble artifact that most fired my imagination.”
St Philip is known for his ecstasies and miracles – but “Here we find him in his nature; frail and imperfect and in need of just a little aid, so like our own.”
