This quote is from the book, “The Life of St. Philip Neri, Apostle of Rome: Volume 2" by Alfonso Capecelatro. Wouldn't it be great if Palestrina were canonized?

“The fame of Palestrina grew and spread rapidly, so that his name was in renown all over Europe, and Philip II. of Spain deemed it an honour that some of his Masses were dedicated to him. But in 1594, a year before S. Philip's death, he died in the arms of our dear saint, and the circumstances of his death are related in a manuscript quoted by Baini. On the 26th January 1594, Pierluigi had an attack of pleurisy which confined him to his bed. Finding his strength diminish, he sent for S. Philip, who ran eagerly to cheer him with his presence, and soothe him with his ineffable charity. The next day Philip heard his general confession; on the 28th he received Holy Viaticum, and on the 31st the sacrament of Extreme Unction. Philip scarcely quitted the Vatican, in which Palestrina was lodged, and was always at the side of his tenderly loved disciple, with words of consolation and of hope. Finding himself worse on the 31st, Pierluigi sent for his son Igino, embraced him and blessed him, and gave him counsel beseeming a Christian father on the threshold of eternity. He then added: "I charge you that all my unpublished works be printed, as soon as may be, for the glory of God most high, and for His worship in His holy temples." Then he blessed him once more, and bade him farewell. On the 1st February the inflammation and fever had greatly increased, but he was still able to pass the whole day in prayer and converse with his dear father Philip. At dawn of day on the Feast of the Purification, Palestrina remembered with gratitude and joy that, but a few days before, he had composed and printed the Laudi of Mary, and this remembrance gave him renewed fervour and hope. And then Philip said to him, with a countenance lighted up with the love of God: "Oh my son, would it gladden you to go to enjoy the feast which to-day is held in heaven, in honour of the Queen of angels and of saints?" A thrill of tender emotion passed through the heart of the dying man, he paused awhile and then answered: "Yes, surely, I do most eagerly desire it; may Mary my advocate obtain for me this grace from her divine Son!" Scarcely had he uttered these words, says Baini, when, in fullest possession of all his powers, full of peace and trust in the mercy of the Lord, he gently breathed out his soul to God, and went, as I trust, through the intercession of the blessed Virgin Mary, and the prayers of his holy confessor Philip, where the song of divine praise flows on unceasingly."