{"id":1401,"date":"2015-12-07T10:42:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2015-12-07T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:42:31","slug":"the-feast-of-st-ambrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"The Feast of St. Ambrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s heavyweight season in the liturgical calendar. Yesterday, St. Nicholas. Today, my favorite saint. St. Ambrose (just happens to also be one of my middle names), Bishop of Milan, and Doctor of the Catholic Church (one of the original four). In 374 AD, this amazing man was already governor of Milan at age 33.<\/p>\n<p>When the previous bishop died that year, Ambrose was spontaneously proclaimed bishop by the citizens of Milan even though he had not even been baptized into the church<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> yet. He tried to decline the appointment by appealing to Emperor Gratian who refused his request. In the following week, Ambrose was baptized, ordained, then consecrated as Bishop of Milan.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>He is credited with influencing the conversion of the future Saint (and also another Doctor of the Church) Augustine of Hippo.<\/p>\n<p>St. Ambrose, Confessor and Doctor of the Church, pray for us.<a href=\"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/St.Ambrose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1402\" src=\"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/St.Ambrose-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"St.Ambrose\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/St.Ambrose-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/semperjase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/St.Ambrose.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s heavyweight season in the liturgical calendar. Yesterday, St. Nicholas. Today, my favorite saint. St. Ambrose (just happens to also be one of my middle names), Bishop of Milan, and Doctor of the Catholic Church (one of the original four). In 374 AD, this amazing man was already governor of Milan at age 33. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Feast of St. Ambrose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}