{"id":55013,"date":"2016-01-05T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2016\/01\/05\/pope-francis-prays-at-the-place-where-st-francis-of-assisi-placed-the-first-nativity-scene\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:31:00","slug":"pope-francis-prays-at-the-place-where-st-francis-of-assisi-placed-the-first-nativity-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2016\/01\/05\/pope-francis-prays-at-the-place-where-st-francis-of-assisi-placed-the-first-nativity-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis prays at the place where St. Francis of Assisi placed the first nativity scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope prayed in the grotto where St. Francis of Assisi established the tradition of the nativity scene in 1223.<\/p>\n<p>It is in the Italian town of Greccio, about 100 kilometers from Rome. Pope Francis arrived in the afternoon, in the car he normally uses. The Pope visited Greccio to pray a few days before the Epiphany. It was such a private event, that TV cameras were not there to captured the moment. The diocese media were the only ones present.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the only ones that knew of the Pope's visit was the bishop of Rieti and the Franciscan community of the monastery where the grotto is located.<\/p>\n<p>This was a surprise of great magnitude for about 150 young people from the diocese who were participating in a meeting when this took place. The Pope improvised a speech in which he invited them, as did the three Kings, 'to follow the signs for Jesus\u00e2?\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>\tAC\/YA<br \/>\n\tRR<br \/>\n\tSV<br \/>\n\t-BN<br \/>\n\tUp:AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 5, 2016. The Pope made a surprise visit in Greccio, where a youth meeting was being held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/_d6_cxTz-i0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapagreccioint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55013"}],"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=55013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}