{"id":25145,"date":"2009-12-06T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/saint-nicholas-bishop\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:39:45","slug":"saint-nicholas-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/saint-nicholas-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Nicholas, bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Nicholas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"St Nicholas.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/St Nicholas-thumb-250x512-5162.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>You have proved yourself to be a holy priest, O Nicholas; You served God in Myra and lived the Gospel of Christ. You offered your life for your people; You rescued the innocent from death, therefore God has glorified you as a trustworthy guide of things divine.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">(St Nicholas Kontakion, Tone 3)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You were revealed to your flock as a measure of faith. You were an image of humility and a teacher of self-control. Because of your humble life, heaven was opened to you, because of your poverty, spiritual riches were granted to you. O holy bishop Nicholas, we cry out to you: Pray to Christ our Go that our souls may be saved.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Liturgy&#8217;s prayer for Saint Nicholas may be found\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2008\/12\/saint-nicholas.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A brief bio on Saint Nicholas is\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/11063b.htm\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0You have proved yourself to be a holy priest, O Nicholas; You served God in Myra and lived the Gospel of Christ. You offered your life for your people; You rescued the innocent from death, therefore God has glorified you as a trustworthy guide of things divine.\u00a0 (St Nicholas Kontakion, Tone 3) You were revealed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/saint-nicholas-bishop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Nicholas, bishop<\/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":[1851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25145"}],"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=25145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29166,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25145\/revisions\/29166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}