{"id":29563,"date":"2013-12-05T19:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T23:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29563"},"modified":"2013-12-05T19:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T23:28:05","slug":"saint-saba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/saint-saba\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Saba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/St-Saba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29564 alignleft\" alt=\"St Saba\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/St-Saba-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/St-Saba-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/St-Saba.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Prayer and simple living characterize the saint Mother Church offers to us today. Saint Saba (439-532) is known for simple things, died at 93 of natural causes, dedicated himself to God; it is said that his vocation was to the anchorite way of life; he&#8217;s not a well-educated man. The Byzantine Church calls Saba \u201cthe Sanctified.\u201d\u00a0In monastic circles Saba is honored as being one of the great Patriarchs of Eastern monasticism. Said before on these pages, saints beget saints, Saba was a spiritual son of Saint Euthymius the Great and a collaborator with Saint Theodosius.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Saba was the founder of a now\u00a0famous lavra named after him in the Kidron Valley, close to Jerusalem, and \u00a0Qumran (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found). Saba&#8217;s lavra is the second oldest continually functioning monastery in the world, after that of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai. Under Saba&#8217;s direction \u00a0several famous saints are counted, men like Saint John of Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>He is an intercessor for rain, healings, and against temptations from the devil.<\/p>\n<p>A previous <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/saint-saba-abbot\/\"><strong>post on Abbot Saint Saba is here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer and simple living characterize the saint Mother Church offers to us today. Saint Saba (439-532) is known for simple things, died at 93 of natural causes, dedicated himself to God; it is said that his vocation was to the anchorite way of life; he&#8217;s not a well-educated man. The Byzantine Church calls Saba \u201cthe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/saint-saba\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Saba<\/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":[14,2],"tags":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29563"}],"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=29563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29565,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29563\/revisions\/29565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}