{"id":26867,"date":"2012-02-14T06:15:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/saint-valentine-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T06:15:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:15:13","slug":"saint-valentine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/saint-valentine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Valentine%20Aidan%20Hart%20icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Valentine Aidan Hart icon.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/02\/St Valentine Aidan Hart icon-thumb-285x357-11107.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"357\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Today is a dedicated in the secular world to Valentine. But the more excellent way, the Church, proposes an observance of a saint whose love for God and others, Valentine, is more noteworthy because it focuses not on the temporal but on the eternal. Indeed, Saint Valentine is invoked for his intercession by young people, for happy marriages, and authentic love. A holy priest, Valentine withstood the persecution inflicted on him by those who did not hold belief in the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, Jesus Christ. In many circumstances the Lord&nbsp;<\/span>healed and cured many people through the intercession of&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Saint Valentine. Would we be able to do the same?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2011\/02\/saint-valentine-1.html\">2011 post<\/a> is here.<\/div>\n<div>The <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2009\/02\/saint-valentine.html\">2009 post<\/a> is here.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a dedicated in the secular world to Valentine. But the more excellent way, the Church, proposes an observance of a saint whose love for God and others, Valentine, is more noteworthy because it focuses not on the temporal but on the eternal. Indeed, Saint Valentine is invoked for his intercession by young people, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/saint-valentine-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Valentine<\/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":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26867"}],"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=26867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}