{"id":25564,"date":"2010-05-12T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/blessed-jane-of-portugal-1\/"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:16:30","slug":"blessed-jane-of-portugal-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/blessed-jane-of-portugal-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Jane of Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i>O God, in the midst of the royal court you<br \/>\nstrengthened Blessed Jane with purity<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i> <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size:\n12.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman;mso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i>of heart. By her<br \/>\nprayers may your faithful turn from the things of earth and seek<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i> <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman;mso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i>after<br \/>\nthe things of heaven.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Times-Roman, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman;mso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Blessed Jane (1452-1490) was the daughter of King<br \/>\nAlphonse of Portugal who entered a Dominican convent who lived with openness to<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s invitation to a life of purity of heart. She was a capable rule of her<br \/>\nfather&#8217;s kingdom; because the continuation of her family&#8217;s rule of Portugal was<br \/>\nquestionable because of her brother&#8217;s poor health, Jane didn&#8217;t take vows as a<br \/>\nDominican nun until a prudent decision could be made to secure the dynasty.<br \/>\nUntil her profession of vows she lived at a convent of nuns according to their<br \/>\nrule and doing works of charity with her money.<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, in the midst of the royal court you strengthened Blessed Jane with purity of heart. By her prayers may your faithful turn from the things of earth and seek after the things of heaven. Blessed Jane (1452-1490) was the daughter of King Alphonse of Portugal who entered a Dominican convent who lived with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/blessed-jane-of-portugal-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Jane of Portugal<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25564"}],"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=25564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}