{"id":51016,"date":"2014-07-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/07\/21\/john-paul-ii-and-gianna-beretta-patron-saints-of-the-world-meeting-of-families\/"},"modified":"2014-07-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:00:00","slug":"john-paul-ii-and-gianna-beretta-patron-saints-of-the-world-meeting-of-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/07\/21\/john-paul-ii-and-gianna-beretta-patron-saints-of-the-world-meeting-of-families\/","title":{"rendered":"John Paul II and Gianna Beretta, patron saints of the World Meeting of Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pope and a family woman. They're the saints chosen as the patrons of the 8th World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The first is St. John Paul II, canonized on April 27, and the founder of these events.<\/p>\n<p>FR. SLAWOMIR ODER<br \/>\nPostulator, Sainthood cause of John Paul II<br \/>\n'He himself said he wanted to be remember, if the Church ever remembered him... he wanted to be remembered as the Pope of life and of family. He promoted a revaluation of the family as the place where a person develops humanely, and grows spiritually.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>St. Gianna Beretta was a pediatrician and mother of four, who passed away in 1962. During her fourth pregnancy, doctors discovered a tumor in her uterus. She decided to delay surgery to remove it until after the birth of her child, but by then it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>Beretta is considered the patron saint of pregnant women. John Paul II canonized her on May 16, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The 8th World Meeting of Families will take place from September 22-27, 2015. Although it's not yet confirmed, Pope Francis is widely expected to attend the last part of the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>JRB\/RCA<br \/>\nRR<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp:RCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, 2014. The gathering will take place in September 2015, but the Pope has not confirmed his attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/x_K9NgvzsrM","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bpatroniphilint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}