{"id":4986,"date":"2018-01-03T08:31:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2018-01-03T08:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:31:40","slug":"be-a-light-bearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/be-a-light-bearer\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Light Bearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joyeux-Noel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joyeux-Noel-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joyeux-Noel-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joyeux-Noel-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joyeux-Noel-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joyeux-Noel.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NINTH DAY of CHRISTMAS:<br \/>\nSt. Genevieve\u2019s Day<\/p>\n<p>Francophiles, rejoice! While there are no particular customs (that I am aware of, anyway) associated with this Ninth Day of Christmas, it is St. Genevieve&#8217;s Day. Genevieve, sacred to Paris, that fair city&#8217;s patron saint. She lived in Paris in the fifth century as a nun and is credited with saving the city from an attack by Attila and his Huns in 451. This she did through fasting and prayer, encouraging the residents of the city to join her. And around 475, she founded Saint-Denys de la Chapelle in Paris, which stands today as part of\u00a0the Basilica of St. Denis.<\/p>\n<p>As the patron saint of the City of Light, I like to think of Genevieve in terms of her connection to light\u2013\u2013as another of the midwinter saints who are light bearers at this dark time of year and who encourage us to be light bearers, too. She is often depicted holding a candle. As the story goes: the devil would time and again blow out her candle as she went to pray at night. Genevieve, however, relit her candle without need of flint or fire, always overcoming the darkness. As our wheel of the year goes, we are already thirteen days passed the Midwinter Solstice; already light is increasing as we begin the journey toward summer\u2019s warmth once more in the Northern Hemisphere. The light of St. Genevieve promises to never be snuffed by the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of you out there who love the food and culture of France. I think today, this Ninth Day of Christmas, is a fine day to enjoy those things fully. Joyeux No\u00ebl et bonne ann\u00e9e!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NINTH DAY of CHRISTMAS: St. Genevieve\u2019s Day Francophiles, rejoice! While there are no particular customs (that I am aware of, anyway) associated with this Ninth Day of Christmas, it is St. Genevieve&#8217;s Day. Genevieve, sacred to Paris, that fair city&#8217;s patron saint. She lived in Paris in the fifth century as a nun and is [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}