{"id":28581,"date":"2013-09-28T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T16:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=28581"},"modified":"2013-09-28T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T16:04:41","slug":"saint-lorenzo-ruiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/saint-lorenzo-ruiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Lorenzo Ruiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/San-Lorenzo-Ruiz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28582 alignleft\" title=\"Saint Lorenzo Ruiz\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/San-Lorenzo-Ruiz-211x300.jpg\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/San-Lorenzo-Ruiz-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/San-Lorenzo-Ruiz-721x1024.jpg 721w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/San-Lorenzo-Ruiz.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>Today is the feast of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino saint.<\/p>\n<p>With the Church we pray,<\/p>\n<p><em>Grant us, we pray, Lord God, the same perseverance shown by your Martyrs Saint Lawrence Ruiz and his companions in serving you and their neighbor, since those persecuted for the sake of righteousness are blessed in your Kingdom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo was a layman, a husband and a father; he was educated by the Dominican friars and a member of the Third Order. He was especially devoted, as you\u2019d expect for someone connected to the Order of Preachers, to the rosary. Because he was unwilling to renounce his faith in Christ, he tortured and later suffered martyred with 14 others for the faith. Lorenzo Ruiz was canonized by John Paul in 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino saint. With the Church we pray, Grant us, we pray, Lord God, the same perseverance shown by your Martyrs Saint Lawrence Ruiz and his companions in serving you and their neighbor, since those persecuted for the sake of righteousness are blessed in your Kingdom. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/saint-lorenzo-ruiz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Lorenzo Ruiz<\/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":[19,2],"tags":[1714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581"}],"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=28581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28583,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581\/revisions\/28583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}