{"id":27701,"date":"2013-05-03T14:04:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/i-read-this-narrative-in\/"},"modified":"2013-05-03T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:04:25","slug":"i-read-this-narrative-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/i-read-this-narrative-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis and Ignatius &#8211; saints who rebuilt the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Francis and Ignatius.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Francis%20and%20Ignatius.jpeg\" width=\"555\" height=\"263\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><i>I read this narrative in one of the newsletters I receive. Very curious on these things work out, no?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); min-height: 15px; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">When the parish priest of a beautiful village of Provence, South of France, asked in January for a new work of art for his parish, he couldn&#8217;t imagine that his command would meet the joyful events of the whole church, and of the Society. As this diocesan priest was very close to the Franciscans, and to the Jesuits, he asked a parishioner to create a drawing of St Ignatius and St Francis, and another to transform it in a wood <i>bas relief <\/i>for his parish. The project was going on, when the new pope, a Jesuit,&nbsp;decided to call himself Francis. This drawing had suddenly a more universal signification, and the artist transformed it also into an icon. Every Jesuit will be able to read it and to appreciate its symbols.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this narrative in one of the newsletters I receive. Very curious on these things work out, no? When the parish priest of a beautiful village of Provence, South of France, asked in January for a new work of art for his parish, he couldn&#8217;t imagine that his command would meet the joyful events &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/i-read-this-narrative-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Francis and Ignatius &#8211; saints who rebuilt the Church<\/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":[42,13,84],"tags":[1838,32107,2063,2496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27701"}],"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=27701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}