X
In 1952, Lee was sent to the Sean Ross Abbey in Ireland as an unwed mother. Her son, Anthony, was taken by the nuns and sold for adoption to an American family without her consent.
After decades of secrecy, Lee and journalist Martin Sixsmith discovered that her son (renamed Michael Hess) had become a prominent Republican lawyer in the U.S. and had died of AIDS in 1995 while searching for her. Philomena
According to private revelations given to Mother Maria Luisa di Gesù in 1833, Philomena survived multiple torture attempts—including drowning with an anchor and being shot with arrows—before finally being beheaded. In 1952, Lee was sent to the Sean
She is the patron saint of babies, infants, youth, and "impossible causes". and "impossible causes".