{"id":25196,"date":"2009-12-26T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/saint-stephen\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T20:10:47","slug":"saint-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/saint-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 90%; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; padding: 10px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Stephen%20ACarracci.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/St Stephen ACarracci-thumb-275x209-5307.jpg\" alt=\"St Stephen ACarracci.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stephen saw the heavens opened; he saw and entered; blessed is the man for whom the heavens were opened.<\/p>\n<p>We beseech Thee, O Lord, grant us to imitate what we revere, so that we may learn to love also our enemies; for we celebrate the birth to immortality of him who interceded even for his persecutors with Thy So our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Stephen is known as a deacon and the Protomartyr (the first among all martyrs who witness to Christ). Chapters 6 and 7 of the Acts of the Apostles give us an understanding of Stephen. Saint Stephen is the patron of deacons, permanent and transitional, bricklayers and of Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>A news item\u00a0from the Pope on Saint Stephen and those those suffer for their faith.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen saw the heavens opened; he saw and entered; blessed is the man for whom the heavens were opened. We beseech Thee, O Lord, grant us to imitate what we revere, so that we may learn to love also our enemies; for we celebrate the birth to immortality of him who interceded even for his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/saint-stephen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Stephen<\/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":[32026],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196"}],"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=25196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31798,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196\/revisions\/31798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}