{"id":4193,"date":"2020-02-27T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2020-02-02T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T08:20:08","slug":"without-this-help-from-on-high-this-birthday-would-have-been-the-last-day-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4193","title":{"rendered":"WITHOUT THIS HELP FROM ON HIGH, THIS BIRTHDAY WOULD HAVE BEEN THE LAST DAY OF MY LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his 56<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, Eugene was spending a few days at his sister\u2019s summer home at St Martin de Palli\u00e8res. Out on an excursion in a horse-drawn carriage he narrated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Coming back to St. Martin, my brother-in-law and I tipped over. I hit my head, but my hat saved me and, above all our guardian angels, whom I thanked for drawing me out of the carriage, which was upside down. Without this help from on high, this birthday would have been the last day of my life, but I am sure that at the very moment I was falling, several of God\u2019s friends were praying for me.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>For quite some time now, only saints\u2019 prayers have kept me alive. I hope they will help me to work out my salvation which, it seems to me, is daily becoming more difficult.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 1 August 1837, EO XVIII<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his 56th birthday, Eugene was spending a few days at his sister\u2019s summer home at St Martin de Palli\u00e8res. Out on an excursion in a horse-drawn carriage he narrated: Coming back to St. Martin, my brother-in-law and I tipped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4193\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}