{"id":86399,"date":"2019-11-11T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86399"},"modified":"2019-11-10T18:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:07:36","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-martin-of-tours-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86399","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Martin of Tours"},"content":{"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 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>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today is Martinmas, the feast of St Martin of Tours, a major festival in medieval Europe on the cusp of winter. St Martin was a soldier, until he gave it up to become a monk, and he is the patron saint of soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar (Canterbury Cathedral): <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RXxYZ0W3D5\">pic.twitter.com\/RXxYZ0W3D5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClerkofOxford\/status\/1061521806492950528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2018<\/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>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=86399\">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-86399","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\/86399","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=86399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86400,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86399\/revisions\/86400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}