{"id":29314,"date":"2013-11-19T11:50:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29314"},"modified":"2013-11-19T11:52:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T15:52:52","slug":"the-beauty-of-vinicio-riva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/the-beauty-of-vinicio-riva\/","title":{"rendered":"The beauty of Vinicio Riva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vinicio-Riva-and-family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29315 alignleft\" alt=\"Vinicio Riva and family\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vinicio-Riva-and-family-300x229.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vinicio-Riva-and-family-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vinicio-Riva-and-family.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mail Online carried the story of Vinicio Riva, the man embraced by Pope Francis. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2509678\/I-felt-heart-leaving-body-Terribly-disfigured-man-held-Pope-relives-moment-moved-world.html\"><strong>The full story is here<\/strong><\/a>. Vinicio Riva&#8217;s story is compelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A previous post on the pope&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=29222&amp;action=edit\"><strong>gesture of love is here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>Here&#8217;s an excerpt which gives hope:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mr Riva recollected: &#8216;He [Pope Francis] came down from the altar to see the sick people. He embraced me without saying a word. I felt as though my heart was leaving my body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;He was completely silent but sometimes you can say more when you say nothing.&#8217; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;First, I kissed his hand while with the other hand he caressed my head and wounds. Then he drew me to him in a strong embrace, kissing my face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;My head was against his chest his arms were wrapped around me. It lasted just over a minute, but to me it seemed like an eternity.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Go, and do likewise. What more has to said?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mail Online carried the story of Vinicio Riva, the man embraced by Pope Francis. The full story is here. Vinicio Riva&#8217;s story is compelling. A previous post on the pope&#8217;s gesture of love is here. Here&#8217;s an excerpt which gives hope: Mr Riva recollected: &#8216;He [Pope Francis] came down from the altar to see the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/the-beauty-of-vinicio-riva\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The beauty of Vinicio Riva<\/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":[38],"tags":[32107,2124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29314"}],"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=29314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29317,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29314\/revisions\/29317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}