The Italian original of the following received an Imprimatur from Cajetanus Angilella CO in Rome on 26 May 1958.
PRAYER customarily said in Rome before the tomb of SAINT PHILIP NERI
O God Almighty and Merciful, who for the benefit and comfort of thy children didst raise up in the Catholic Church in difficult times sweet Saint Philip Neri, and madest him Apostle of Rome, exemplar of the priests, patron and teacher (maestro) of the youth, receive the prayer which we make to thee, spiritually united with him (here before these mortal remains which were the instrument of his great spirit to achieve so much good); and grant us the grace, through his intercession and through the merits of Jesus our Lord, to imitate his purity, his charity, his holy ardor in every good work, his filial devotion towards the Most Holy Virgin, to the end that we also may glorify thee and enjoy thee (goderti!) together with him and with all the Saints, in the blessed homeland of Paradise. Amen.
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