{"id":24588,"date":"2009-04-29T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/saint-catherine-of-siena\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:30:00","slug":"saint-catherine-of-siena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/saint-catherine-of-siena\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Catherine of Siena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Santa%20Caterina%20da%20Siena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Santa Caterina da Siena.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Santa Caterina da Siena-thumb-250x446.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"446\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span>The Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking good pearls, who, when he had found one of great price, gave all that he had and bought it, alleluia.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We beseech Thee, almighty God, grant that we who celebrate the heavenly birth of blessed Catherine, Thy Virgin, may rejoice in her annual festival and benefit by the example of such great virtue.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you are interested in studies pertaining to Saint Catherine, you may want to get a copy of <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Catherine-Siena-Spiritual-Development-Teaching\/dp\/0809145472\">Catherine of Siena: Spiritual Development in Her Life and Teaching<\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal;\">&nbsp;by Domincan Father Thomas McDermott.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking good pearls, who, when he had found one of great price, gave all that he had and bought it, alleluia. We beseech Thee, almighty God, grant that we who celebrate the heavenly birth of blessed Catherine, Thy Virgin, may rejoice in her annual festival and benefit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/saint-catherine-of-siena\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Catherine of Siena<\/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":[19],"tags":[1714,2076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588"}],"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=24588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}