{"id":742,"date":"2022-10-19T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:29:54","slug":"feast-day-peter-of-alcantara-an-important-saint-mystic-and-ascetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"Feast Day &#8211; Peter of Alcantara, an important Saint; mystic and ascetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a2eed9ade7200d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter-of-alcantara\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202a2eed9ade7200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a2eed9ade7200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Peter-of-alcantara\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Peter of Alcantara&#0160; was the counselor to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila\">Saint Teresa of Avila<\/a> (a great reformer and Doctor of the Church &#8211; my favorite Saint since I read her book a few years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Interior-Castle-Dover-Thrift-Editions\/dp\/0486461459\/ref=sr_1_4?crid=6E9NZ13ERPTC&amp;keywords=the+interior+castle&amp;qid=1665932065&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjc4IiwicXNhIjoiMy40MiIsInFzcCI6IjMuNzAifQ%3D%3D&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=the+interior+castle%2Cstripbooks%2C91&amp;sr=1-4\">The Interior Castle.<\/a> For a bit more about her, go <a href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2020\/10\/quote-from-st-teresa-of-avila-.html\">here<\/a>). He was born in 1499 and lived &#39;til 1562.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a308e3ad32200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screenshot_2022-10-16 Saint Who \" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202a308e3ad32200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a308e3ad32200c-500wi\" style=\"width: 480px;\" title=\"Screenshot_2022-10-16 Saint Who \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other things, Peter of Alcantara&#0160; was the counselor to Saint Teresa of Avila (a great reformer and Doctor of the Church &#8211; my favorite Saint since I read her book a few years ago The Interior Castle. For a bit more about her, go here). He was born in 1499 and lived &#39;til 1562.<\/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-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}