{"id":144591,"date":"2026-04-16T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144591"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:34:49","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-magnus-the-martyr-of-orkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144591","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the feast day of Saint Magnus the Martyr of Orkney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O gracious God, who gave Saint Magnus the grace to witness unto his death and to pray for those who were his killers, grant us the courage to follow his example of being a faithful disciple to the end, through Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit ever liveth and reignith in glory everlasting, Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apr 16: Feast of Magn\u00fas (\u2020 c.1116), earl of Orkney. His cousin H\u00e1kon P\u00e1lsson had him killed in a feud over the division of lands and power in their joint earldom. Orkneyinga saga says Magn\u00fas accepted violent death as a sacrifice, praying for his killers. &#x1f4f8;Hew Morrison <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bQImf8ByHA\">pic.twitter.com\/bQImf8ByHA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; North Ages (@NorthAges) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorthAges\/status\/2044673967554736544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O gracious God, who gave Saint Magnus the grace to witness unto his death and to pray for those who were his killers, grant us the courage to follow his example of being a faithful disciple to the end, through<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144591\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,438,456],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-norway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144593,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144591\/revisions\/144593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}