{"id":148706,"date":"2026-11-11T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148706"},"modified":"2026-11-11T05:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:13:24","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-martin-of-tours-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148706","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Martin of Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord God of hosts, who didst clothe thy servant Martin the soldier with the spirit of sacrifice, and didst set him as a bishop in thy Church to be a defender of the catholic faith: Give us grace to follow in his holy steps, that at the last we may be found clothed with righteousness in the dwellings of peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is Martinmas, the feast of St Martin of Tours, a major festival in medieval Europe which heralded the approach of winter with fire and feasting.\n\nSt Martin is the patron saint of soldiers, often shown sharing his cloak with a poor man to protect him from the winter cold. https:\/\/t.co\/RX0iNkzHdS<\/p>&mdash; Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ClerkofOxford\/status\/2120421401928646887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord God of hosts, who didst clothe thy servant Martin the soldier with the spirit of sacrifice, and didst set him as a bishop in thy Church to be a defender of the catholic faith: Give us grace to follow<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148706\">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":[186,468,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-france","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148706","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=148706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148708,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148706\/revisions\/148708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}