{"id":25266,"date":"2010-01-20T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/saint-eustochia-of-messina\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T06:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T10:00:25","slug":"saint-eustochia-of-messina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/saint-eustochia-of-messina\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Eustochia of Messina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Eustochia%20Smeraldo%20calafato%20of%20Messina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Eustochia Smeraldo calafato of Messina.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/St Eustochia Smeraldo calafato of Messina-thumb-200x278-5496.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"278\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i>Lord, through Your loving favor, You revealed to the<br \/>\nvirgin Saint Eustochia of Messina, the hidden secrets of Your providential<br \/>\ncare. Through the way of life of our mother Saint Clare she grew deeper in her<br \/>\nlove for Christ and His Church. may we who know You now by faith, come to<br \/>\nrejoice with her in heaven, and see You face to face.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; \"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; \">Saint Eustachia was a<br \/>\ndaughter of a count &amp; countess; before she could marry, her fiance died.<br \/>\nAfter the death of her father she became a Poor Clare kneeling at the foot of<br \/>\nChrist crucified. She spent her life devoted to the Blessed Sacrament, penance<br \/>\nand charity. Her mother and sister were nuns at the Abbey of Monte Vergine. She<br \/>\nwas elected abbess of her community. Her body is incorrupt and is venerated by<br \/>\nthe faithful annually on August 22nd.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, through Your loving favor, You revealed to the virgin Saint Eustochia of Messina, the hidden secrets of Your providential care. Through the way of life of our mother Saint Clare she grew deeper in her love for Christ and His Church. may we who know You now by faith, come to rejoice with her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/saint-eustochia-of-messina\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Eustochia of Messina<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25266"}],"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=25266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}