{"id":27136,"date":"2012-08-21T17:08:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T21:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/saint-bernard-tolomei\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T17:08:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T21:08:49","slug":"saint-bernard-tolomei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/saint-bernard-tolomei\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Bernard Tolomei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Bernardo%20Tolomei%20%281272-1348%29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bernardo Tolomei (1272-1348).jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/08\/Bernardo Tolomei (1272-1348)-thumb-285x351-12511.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"351\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>An obscure Benedictine saint is liturgically honored by the Church today. Saint Bernard Tolomei, (1272-1348) the founder of the Benedictine Congregation of the Blessed Virgin of Monte Oliveto &nbsp;(near Siena) in 1319. He was beatified in 1644 but not canonized until 2009, though he was revered as a saint for a long time before Pope Benedict canonized him.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Olivetan monks have an intense devotion to the Virgin Mary due to the founder&#8217;s attribution to the healing of his blindness by the intercession of the Virgin; their life has been one of penance and silence.&nbsp;Hence, Saint Bernard is called the &#8220;hero of penance and martyr of charity.&#8221; And this is our desire today.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Saint Bernard Tolomei&#8217;s brief biography can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/news_services\/liturgy\/saints\/2009\/ns_lit_doc_20090426_tolomei_en.html\">be read here<\/a>&nbsp;and a set of photos can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22553111@N07\/5818528580\/\">viewed here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obscure Benedictine saint is liturgically honored by the Church today. Saint Bernard Tolomei, (1272-1348) the founder of the Benedictine Congregation of the Blessed Virgin of Monte Oliveto &nbsp;(near Siena) in 1319. He was beatified in 1644 but not canonized until 2009, though he was revered as a saint for a long time before Pope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/saint-bernard-tolomei\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Bernard Tolomei<\/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":[28],"tags":[1727,2997],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27136"}],"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=27136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}