{"id":13971,"date":"2024-06-07T06:38:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T10:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13971"},"modified":"2024-06-01T06:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T10:40:01","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-7-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13971","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe martyrs were considered by the Church as their heavenly patrons and protectors, as men and women now so close to God that they could exercise a powerful ministry of intercession\u2026 \u00a0Relics\u2014i.e. remains of the martyrs or objects used by them and that had come into contact with them\u2014were treasured as sources of spiritual power.\u00a0\u00a0 Note that this cult of the martyrs was flourishing in the mid-second century\u2014well before the canon of the New Testament writings was fixed.\u00a0 The reliance upon the martyrs\u2019 prayers and devotion to them and their relics thus belongs to the earliest stratum of the Church\u2019s life. \u201c<br \/>\n(Fr Lawrence Farley, \u2018No Other Foundation\u2019 blog)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13972\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Image32ooo-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Image32ooo-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Image32ooo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe martyrs were considered by the Church as their heavenly patrons and protectors, as men and women now so close to God that they could exercise a powerful ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13973,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions\/13973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}