{"id":54690,"date":"2015-10-29T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/10\/29\/the-sweetest-gift-what-the-president-of-lithuania-gave-to-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T18:00:00","slug":"the-sweetest-gift-what-the-president-of-lithuania-gave-to-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/10\/29\/the-sweetest-gift-what-the-president-of-lithuania-gave-to-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"The sweetest gift? What the President of Lithuania gave to Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis had a cordial meeting at the Vatican with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskait\u00c4?.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They spoke about welcoming refugees to Europe; conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine; and what life is like for the 77 percent of her country that identifies as Catholic. However, the sweetest moment of the visit came when they exchanged gifts.<\/p>\n<p>The President gave the Pope a Divine Mercy image and another depicting Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks before the start of the Jubilee Year, the gifts are appropriate. In Lithuania, a Jesus of Mercy image designed according to Saint Faustina Kowalska's description was just shown publicly for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The president also gave Pope Francis this jar of honey...<\/p>\n<p>'As I said, this honey was made in Lithuania and the label was designed by children.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>After the photos with members of her delegation, she didn't want to leave without giving the Pope recommendations for how to use the honey.<\/p>\n<p>'Bread with honey and fruit. It would be enough for breakfast.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Although Pope Francis said he only needs the traditional Argentine drink mate for energy in the morning, the honey might help prevent a cold in the winter.<\/p>\n<p>JRB\/ATO<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nS<br \/>\nBN<br \/>\nUp:ATO<br \/>\n#Papafrancisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 29, 2015. Dalia Grybauskait\u00c4? visited the Vatican for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":33808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/1b0NwNdqSK8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bpreslituaniaint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54690"}],"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=54690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}