{"id":284,"date":"2024-10-22T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:57:16","slug":"pope-francis-canonizes-the-martyrs-of-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pope Francis canonizes the &#8220;Martyrs of Damascus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past Sunday and interesting stories. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/saint\/martyrs-of-damascus-532\">Martyrs of Damascus<\/a> were killed in 1860. Three of them were siblings in the Maronite Catholic Church&nbsp; The <a href=\"https:\/\/ourladysmaronite.org\/the-martyrs-of-damascus-the-three-massabki-brothers\">Three Massabki Brothers<\/a>. They were all killed for refusing to convert to Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3c111bb200c-300wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11120\" title=\"Martyrs of damascus\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xp0zMG2DbCU?si=EKCwjgSkAbpFbGCr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday and interesting stories. The Martyrs of Damascus were killed in 1860. Three of them were siblings in the Maronite Catholic Church&nbsp; The Three Massabki Brothers. They were all killed for refusing to convert to Islam. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11121,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}