{"id":34031,"date":"2016-09-17T17:44:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T21:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34031"},"modified":"2016-09-18T07:53:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T11:53:24","slug":"the-stigmata-of-st-francis-of-assisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/the-stigmata-of-st-francis-of-assisi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Stigmata-of-Francis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34032 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Stigmata-of-Francis-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"stigmata-of-francis\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Stigmata-of-Francis-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Stigmata-of-Francis-768x876.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Stigmata-of-Francis-898x1024.jpg 898w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Stigmata-of-Francis.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a>The Franciscans mostly observe this event in the life of Saint Francis turned into a feast day of the Stigmata. It is recalled that Francis, in meditation on Mount Alvernia in the Apennines, in September 1224, received a vision of a six winged angel. Francis recalls that he\u00a0was visited by\u00a0angel and the Life-saving wounds of the crucified Lord. That is,\u00a0he was\u00a0left with wounds in his hands, feet, and side as though he had been crucified. The wound in his side often seeped blood.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Francis and his conversion story, from the beginning, included\u00a0a very great devotion and venerati<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">on for Jesus Christ crucified. He was constant in this aspect of the Paschal Mystery until he died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Pope Benedict XI gave permission for\u00a0the Friars\u00a0to have an annual liturgical commemoration on this day the memory of this extraordinary event attested by reliable witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Franciscans mostly observe this event in the life of Saint Francis turned into a feast day of the Stigmata. It is recalled that Francis, in meditation on Mount Alvernia in the Apennines, in September 1224, received a vision of a six winged angel. Francis recalls that he\u00a0was visited by\u00a0angel and the Life-saving wounds of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/the-stigmata-of-st-francis-of-assisi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi<\/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],"tags":[1770,2063,2185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34031"}],"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=34031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34033,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34031\/revisions\/34033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}