{"id":24328,"date":"2009-02-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/saint-valentine\/"},"modified":"2009-02-14T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T10:00:00","slug":"saint-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/saint-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><em><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Valentine%20baptizing%20Lucilla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"369\" alt=\"St Valentine baptizing Lucilla.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Valentine%20baptizing%20Lucilla-thumb-250x369.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span>He that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">We beseech You almighty God, grant that we who celebrate the heavenly birth of blessed Valentine, Your martyr, may through his intercession be freed from all impending evils.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">(The antiphon and prayer for Mass is a far cry from the saccharine sense of the saint we honor today in the secular world.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. &nbsp; We beseech You almighty God, grant that we who celebrate the heavenly birth of blessed Valentine, Your martyr, may through his intercession be freed from all impending evils. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (The antiphon and prayer for Mass is a far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/saint-valentine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Valentine<\/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":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24328"}],"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=24328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}