{"id":24241,"date":"2009-01-15T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/saints-maur-and-placid\/"},"modified":"2014-01-20T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:30:24","slug":"saints-maur-and-placid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/saints-maur-and-placid\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Maurus and Placid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Placid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px;\" alt=\"St Placid.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Placid-thumb-150x179.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/span>O God, you have filled us with wonder by the example of monastic observance in the lives of your blessed confessors Maurus and Placid. As we celebrate their memory and follow in their footsteps, may we come to share in their reward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What we know of these saints\u00a0we know from Saint Gregory the Great<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Maur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/St%20Maur-thumb-150x173.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/span>who introduces them in his <em>Life of Saint Benedict<\/em>. These early companions of Saint Benedict are what you may call the first Benedictine oblates, ones who made an offering of themselves to God&#8217;s service. In time they lived their monastic life fully and without reservation.<\/p>\n<p>On the life of<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osb.org\/gen\/maurus\/maurlife.html\">Saint Maur<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, you have filled us with wonder by the example of monastic observance in the lives of your blessed confessors Maurus and Placid. As we celebrate their memory and follow in their footsteps, may we come to share in their reward. What we know of these saints\u00a0we know from Saint Gregory the Great who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/saints-maur-and-placid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saints Maurus and Placid<\/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":[28],"tags":[32091,1727,1918,1919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24241"}],"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=24241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30258,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24241\/revisions\/30258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}