{"id":51516,"date":"2014-10-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/10\/22\/catholic-church-celebrates-feast-day-of-st-john-paul-ii-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2014-10-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T10:00:00","slug":"catholic-church-celebrates-feast-day-of-st-john-paul-ii-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/10\/22\/catholic-church-celebrates-feast-day-of-st-john-paul-ii-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Church celebrates feast day of St. John Paul II, for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 22 marks the feast of St. John Paul II, and for the first time, the Church celebrates it.<\/p>\n<p>This same date marks the opening Mass of his pontificate. He presided over it six days before his election on October 16, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>'Don't be afraid! Open, open wide the doors to Christ!\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Pontificate of John Paul II \u00a0lasted 26 years. It was one the longest in history. His tomb is one of the most venerated by pilgrims who visit Rome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis canonized John Paul II and John XXIII on April 27, 2014. It was one of the most crowded ceremonies at St. Peter's Square.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\nApril 27, 2014<br \/>\n'We declare and define Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II be saints and we enroll them among the saints.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But the feast of St. John Paul II is not the only celebration related to a Pope taking place in October. On October 11, the Church celebrated for the first time the feast of St. John XXIII. A week after, on October 19, Pope Francis beatified Paul VI.<\/p>\n<p>JRB<br \/>\nRR<br \/>\nJM<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp:KLH\u00a0<br \/>\n#Papa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 22, 2014. Wednesday also marks the opening Mass of John Paul II's pontificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":31039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/umx0JtkQSKo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bsanjuanpabloint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51516"}],"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=51516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}