{"id":2494,"date":"2014-02-14T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T03:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2014-02-14T04:11:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T02:11:39","slug":"relics-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2494","title":{"rendered":"RELICS OF THE DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">After dinner, I went to make the station of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. How sad it was to see such a beautiful basilica ruined by flames!&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This church, which commemorates the burial place of Paul, had been partially destroyed in a fire. Nearly thirty years later, Eugene was present when the Pope re-dedicated the restored basilica. His name is on a commemorative plaque in the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In one of the side chapels not destroyed by the fire, they have preserved the miraculous crucifix, which they say spoke to Saint Bridget. In the same chapel they showed me Saint Paul\u2019s handcuffs. Actually, it is a piece of chain which is similar to the chains on our suitcases.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Roman Diary, 29 January 1826, EO XVII<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this comment one encounters how Eugene was always low-key about extraordinary religious experiences and careful about objects of devotion that were of doubtful origin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0Emily Bronte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dinner, I went to make the station of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. How sad it was to see such a beautiful basilica ruined by flames!&#8230; This church, which commemorates the burial place of Paul, had been partially destroyed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2494\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}