{"id":33201,"date":"2016-02-18T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33201"},"modified":"2016-02-18T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:04:24","slug":"blessed-fra-angelico-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/blessed-fra-angelico-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Blessed Fra Angelico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fra-Angelico.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33202\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33202 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fra-Angelico-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Fra Angelico\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fra-Angelico-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fra-Angelico.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Brother Angelico was reported to say: &#8220;He who does Christ&#8217;s work must stay with Christ always.&#8221; This motto earned him the epithet &#8220;Blessed Angelico,&#8221; because of the perfect integrity of his life and the almost divine beauty of the images he painted, to a superlative extent those of the Blessed Virgin Mary.\u00a0Quoted of Saint\u00a0John Paul II,\u00a0who\u00a0beatified Fra Angelico on October 3, 1982, and then in 1984 declared him patron of Catholic artists.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed Angelico (his\u00a0name in religion was <em>Fra Giovanni<\/em>) joined\u00a0the Dominicans in Fiesole, Italy in 1407. He was taught to illuminate missals and manuscripts, and immediately exhibited an awesome talent as an inspired artist. Today his works can be seen in the Italian cities Cortona, Fiesole, Florence, and in the Vatican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Angelico was reported to say: &#8220;He who does Christ&#8217;s work must stay with Christ always.&#8221; This motto earned him the epithet &#8220;Blessed Angelico,&#8221; because of the perfect integrity of his life and the almost divine beauty of the images he painted, to a superlative extent those of the Blessed Virgin Mary.\u00a0Quoted of Saint\u00a0John Paul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/blessed-fra-angelico-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u00a0Blessed Fra Angelico<\/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],"tags":[1714,1979],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33201"}],"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=33201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33203,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33201\/revisions\/33203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}