{"id":27544,"date":"2013-03-14T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T12:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/pope-francis-visits-marian-shr\/"},"modified":"2013-03-14T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T12:52:57","slug":"pope-francis-visits-marian-shr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/pope-francis-visits-marian-shr\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis visits Marian Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Pope%20Francis%20at%20Santa%20Maria%20Maggiore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope Francis at Santa Maria Maggiore.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/03\/Pope Francis at Santa Maria Maggiore-thumb-285x204-13939.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"204\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>The most significant Marian Shrine in Rome, and one of the central ones in Christian the world, the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, had a visit by Pope Francis today for a half-hour of prayer before the Blessed Mother. He wanted to &#8220;go pray to the Madonna so that she may protect Rome.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A great beginning showing us that the Christian way is merciful and joyful in honoring the model of mercy and joy, the Mother of the Church, Mary, the Mother of God.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/media01.radiovaticana.va\/audiomp3\/00362158.MP3\">Vatican Radio&#8217;s report<\/a> by Veronica Scarisbrick.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most significant Marian Shrine in Rome, and one of the central ones in Christian the world, the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, had a visit by Pope Francis today for a half-hour of prayer before the Blessed Mother. He wanted to &#8220;go pray to the Madonna so that she may protect Rome.&#8221;&nbsp; A great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/pope-francis-visits-marian-shr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope Francis visits Marian Shrine<\/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":[26,84],"tags":[32088,32107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544"}],"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=27544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}