{"id":25020,"date":"2009-10-23T06:04:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T10:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/saint-john-of-capistrano\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T19:53:03","slug":"saint-john-of-capistrano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/saint-john-of-capistrano\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint John of Capistrano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20John%20Capistrano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"St John Capistrano.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/St John Capistrano-thumb-150x225-4862.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>They sang, O Lord, Your holy name and praised in unison Your conquering hand.<\/p>\n<div><i>God, our Father, You raised up in Saint John to strengthen the faithful in a time of stress. Establish us in Your safe protection and keep Your Church in lasting peace.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Poor Saint John gets associated with the migration of the swallows. How unfortunate to have your life and life&#8217;s project get linked with the fowl. There is always a back story. He studied law, a civil servant, was married but the marriage was annulled with the wife&#8217;s permission because as it was never consummated, a priest, a very effective preacher, healer and reformer and ecclesial servant. A disciple of Saint Bernardine of Siena and therefore had a devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus and promoted it. See the Wiki <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_of_Capistrano\">article on<\/a> Saint John and Catholic encyclopedia article on him is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/08452a.htm\">here<\/a>. A Franciscan hagiographical piece on the saint is noted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franciscan-sfo.org\/sts\/S1023john.htm\">here<\/a>. Reading all this I&#8217;d say the birds didn&#8217;t reveal the saint&#8217;s importance.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They sang, O Lord, Your holy name and praised in unison Your conquering hand. God, our Father, You raised up in Saint John to strengthen the faithful in a time of stress. Establish us in Your safe protection and keep Your Church in lasting peace. Poor Saint John gets associated with the migration of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/saint-john-of-capistrano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint John of Capistrano<\/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":[42],"tags":[1770,1897,31896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25020"}],"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=25020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28482,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25020\/revisions\/28482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}