{"id":2743,"date":"2013-05-13T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:38:20","slug":"pope-francis-canonized-hundreds-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis canonized hundreds yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>The 800<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martyrs_of_Otranto\" target=\"_self\"> martyrs of Otranto<\/a>, plus two women religious; one from Mexico, and the first Saint from Columbia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20130512\/DA67NCHO2.html\" target=\"_self\">Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter&#39;s Square.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"article\"><span id=\"intelliTXT\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span id=\"intelliTXT\">The<br \/>\n&quot;Martyrs of Otranto&quot; were 813 Italians who were slain in the southern<br \/>\nItalian city in 1480 for defying demands by Turkish invaders who overran<br \/>\nthe citadel to renounce Christianity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span>******<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span id=\"intelliTXT\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span id=\"intelliTXT\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nfirst pontiff from South America also gave Colombia its first saint: a<br \/>\nnun who toiled as a teacher and spiritual guide to indigenous people in<br \/>\nthe 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>\nWith Colombia&#39;s President Juan Manuel Santos among the VIPS,  the<br \/>\nArgentine pope held out Laura of St. Catherine of Siena Montoya y Upegui<br \/>\nas a potential source of inspiration to the country&#39;s peace process,<br \/>\nattempted after decades-long conflict between rebels and government<br \/>\nforces.<\/p>\n<p>\nFrancis prayed that &quot;Colombia&#39;s beloved children continue to work for peace and just development of the country.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe also canonized another Latin American woman. Maria Guadalupe Garcia<br \/>\nZavala, a Mexican who dedicated herself to nursing the sick, helped<br \/>\nCatholics avoid persecution during a government crackdown of the faith<br \/>\nin the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 800 martyrs of Otranto, plus two women religious; one from Mexico, and the first Saint from Columbia. Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}