{"id":554,"date":"2019-05-31T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T06:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/?p=554"},"modified":"2020-02-07T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:14:58","slug":"the-blessed-virgin-mary-mother-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/saints\/2019\/the-blessed-virgin-mary-mother-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This feast commemorates the three-month visit of Mary with her elderly cousin Elizabeth during Mary&#8217;s pregnancy with Jesus and Elizabeth&#8217;s with John the Baptist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story appears in the first chapter of Luke&#8217;s Gospel. It recounts Elizabeth&#8217;s Spirit-filled greeting, acknowledging Mary as &#8220;the mother of my Lord,&#8221; and Mary&#8217;s beautiful response, the Magnificat, which begins, &#8220;My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduced by the Franciscans in 1263, the feast became universal in the 16th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cousins&#8217; visit has been depicted by many artists over the centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> An especially tender &#8220;Visitation,&#8221; painted by Mariotto Albertinelli and considered his masterpiece, is on display at the Uffizi in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Text: Catholic News Service<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<strong>Feast: 31 May<\/strong> This feast commemorates the three-month visit of Mary with her elderly cousin Elizabeth during Mary's pregnancy...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}