Holy Glorious Prophet Elias

July 20, 2025

Feast of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elias

And [Elijah] said to her, “Give me your son,” and he took him out of her arms and carried him up to a loft where he slept and laid him on his own bed. He cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, have You brought tragedy upon the widow with whom I live by killing her son?” And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, I pray that You let this child’s soul come into him again.”

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he was revived. Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber into the house and returned him to his mother, and Elijah said, “See, your son lives!” (1 Kings 17:19-23)

The icon is of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elias (July 20th).

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Agreement Signed between Holy See and Philippines

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VATICAN CITY, MAY 4, 2007 (VIS) - According to a communique made public today, on Tuesday April 17 at the Ministry of the Exterior in Manila, Philippines, an agreement was signed between the Holy See and the Republic of the Philippines concerning the cultural patrimony of the Catholic Church.

Signing on the part of the Holy See, as plenipotentiary, was Archbishop Fernando Filoni, apostolic nuncio to the Philippines and, for the Republic of the Philippines, Albert G. Romulo, exterior minister.

"This agreement, which consists of six articles," the communique reads, "regulates cooperation between the Holy See and the Republic of the Philippines for the protection of the cultural patrimony of the Catholic Church; in particular for the protection of the colonial churches, museums, archives, libraries and works of art that belong to ecclesiastical institutions and that have a significant historical value."

DELSS/CHURCH CULTURAL PATRIMONY/PHILIPPINESVIS 070504 (150)