{"id":34788,"date":"2017-09-25T07:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34788"},"modified":"2017-09-25T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:50:33","slug":"blessed-herman-the-crippled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/blessed-herman-the-crippled\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Herman the Crippled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Herman-the-Cripple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34789 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Herman-the-Cripple-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Today is the feast day of Blessed Herman the Cripple (also known as Hermannus Contractus, or Herman of Reichenau, 1013-1054), monk, 11th century scholar, composer, musical theorist, mathematician, and astronomer.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed Herman composed the Marian prayers <em>Alma Redemptoris Mater,<\/em> and the <em>Salve Regina<\/em> (also known as the \u201cHail Holy Queen\u201d) which we pray each time we pray the Holy Rosary. Despite significant physical limitations and suffering, the bright and contemplative mind of Blessed Herman advanced not only our understanding of the physical world, but furthered our devotion to Our Blessed Mother. His contributions to both science and faith remind us that regardless of appearance or apparent physical abilities, we each possess immense God-given gifts and talents! He was called &#8220;The Wonder of His Age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A hundred years after Blessed Herman died, Saint Bernard added the <em>O Clemens, O Pia, O Dulcis Virgo Maria<\/em> to the Salve Regina, genuflecting three times as he processed to the altar in the cathedral of Speyers in 1146 on a mission from Pope Eugene III as his legate to Emperor Conrad III in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>(DG sourced)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast day of Blessed Herman the Cripple (also known as Hermannus Contractus, or Herman of Reichenau, 1013-1054), monk, 11th century scholar, composer, musical theorist, mathematician, and astronomer. Blessed Herman composed the Marian prayers Alma Redemptoris Mater, and the Salve Regina (also known as the \u201cHail Holy Queen\u201d) which we pray each time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/blessed-herman-the-crippled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Herman the Crippled<\/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":[28,26,2],"tags":[1727,32079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34788"}],"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=34788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34790,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34788\/revisions\/34790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}