{"id":26017,"date":"2010-12-03T07:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T11:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/saint-francis-xavier-2\/"},"modified":"2010-12-03T07:47:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T11:47:13","slug":"saint-francis-xavier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/saint-francis-xavier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Francis Xavier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Francis%20Xavier%20with%20cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Francis Xavier with cross.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/12\/St Francis Xavier with cross-thumb-250x337-7849.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"337\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a>With eyes fixed squarely on the Lord, Francis Xavier left the companionship of the early founders of the Society of Jesus in Europe to go on mission, preaching the Gospel and bringing new life through the sacraments. Because of his zeal for the salvation of souls many came to know Jesus and thus were saved. Let us pray for missionaries and the work of evangelization through Saint Francis Xavier&#8217;s intercession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With eyes fixed squarely on the Lord, Francis Xavier left the companionship of the early founders of the Society of Jesus in Europe to go on mission, preaching the Gospel and bringing new life through the sacraments. Because of his zeal for the salvation of souls many came to know Jesus and thus were saved. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/saint-francis-xavier-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Francis Xavier<\/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":[13],"tags":[1708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26017"}],"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=26017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}