{"id":79556,"date":"2019-03-23T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79556"},"modified":"2019-03-23T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T15:00:36","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-gregory-the-illuminator-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79556","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of  Gregory the Illuminator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, who willest to be glorified in thy saints, and didst raise up thy servant Gregory the Illuminator to be a light in the world, and to preach the Gospel to the people of Armenia: Shine, we pray thee, in our hearts, that we also in our generation may show forth thy praise, who hast called us out of darkness into thy marvelous light; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Saint Gregory the Illuminator or Enlightener c. 239 &#8211; c. 330 CE) was the first bishop of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Armenian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Armenian<\/a> church, and he is widely credited with converting king Tiridates the Great to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Christianity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Christianity<\/a>, formally establishing the Armenian Church. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Ri6u2EnBn\">https:\/\/t.co\/3Ri6u2EnBn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mvVqfZLZiC\">pic.twitter.com\/mvVqfZLZiC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ancient History Encyclopedia (@ahencyclopedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahencyclopedia\/status\/1104200129471492097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, who willest to be glorified in thy saints, and didst raise up thy servant Gregory the Illuminator to be a light in the world, and to preach the Gospel to the people of Armenia: Shine, we pray thee,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79556\">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":[186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556","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=79556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90865,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556\/revisions\/90865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}