{"id":24230,"date":"2009-01-06T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/blessed-andre-bessette\/"},"modified":"2014-01-06T17:45:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:45:54","slug":"blessed-andre-bessette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/blessed-andre-bessette\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Andr&eacute; Bessette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><em><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Blessed%20Andre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px;\" alt=\"Blessed Andre.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Blessed%20Andre-thumb-225x254.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Lord our God, friend of the lowly, You gave your servant, Brother Andr\u00e9, a great devotion to Saint Joseph and a special commitment to the poor and afflicted. Through his intercession help us to follow his example of prayer and love and so come to share with him in Your glory.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Blessed Andr\u00e9 Bessette (1845-1937), born near Quebec, was professed brother in the Congregation of the Holy Cross. He did the humble work in his religious house for over forty years. He was known to have had a great devotion to Saint Joseph and therefore he was entrusting the intentions of the poor and sick to him. He built the shrine which grew into the great basilica known as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saint-joseph.org\/\">Saint Joseph&#8217;s Oratory<\/a><\/strong> in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord our God, friend of the lowly, You gave your servant, Brother Andr\u00e9, a great devotion to Saint Joseph and a special commitment to the poor and afflicted. Through his intercession help us to follow his example of prayer and love and so come to share with him in Your glory. Blessed Andr\u00e9 Bessette (1845-1937), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/blessed-andre-bessette\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Andr&eacute; Bessette<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31973],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30095,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24230\/revisions\/30095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}