{"id":26686,"date":"2011-10-12T07:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/st-seraphin-of-montegranaro\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T07:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:03:58","slug":"st-seraphin-of-montegranaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/st-seraphin-of-montegranaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Seraphin of Montegranaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Seraphin%20of%20Montegranaro%20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Seraphin of Montegranaro.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/10\/St Seraphin of Montegranaro -thumb-285x372-10364.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"372\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><i>More of the simple lay friars were made saints than the Capuchin priest friars. I wonder why? But a snippet from a biography on Saint Seraphin may be helpful to get a sense of the man:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/>In 1556, Felix repeated his request to the provincial minister who admitted him to the novitiate at Jesi, where Felix received the name, Seraphin. Upon his reception into the Order, Seraphin remarked, &#8220;I have nothing\u2039just a crucifix and a rosary\u2039but with these I hope to benefit the friars and become a saint.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233; min-height: 15.0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Although he was not totally illiterate, Seraphin could speak about God more eloquently than any theologian. Even the bishop of Ascoli, the eminent theologian, Cardinal Bernerio, sought Seraphin&#8217;s advice in especially difficult cases.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233; min-height: 15.0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">With himself, Seraphin was austere. Only once in his life did he accept a new habit, and then, only out of obedience. For 40 continuous years, all he ate was soup or salad. In keeping with the spirituality prevalent at the time, Seraphin had a personal devotion of serving as many eucharistic liturgies as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More of the simple lay friars were made saints than the Capuchin priest friars. I wonder why? But a snippet from a biography on Saint Seraphin may be helpful to get a sense of the man: In 1556, Felix repeated his request to the provincial minister who admitted him to the novitiate at Jesi, where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/st-seraphin-of-montegranaro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Seraphin of Montegranaro<\/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":[2438,1770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26686"}],"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=26686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}