{"id":84284,"date":"2014-07-15T08:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T15:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=84284"},"modified":"2014-07-15T08:11:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T15:11:10","slug":"a-constant-fidelity-in-small-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-constant-fidelity-in-small-things\/","title":{"rendered":"A Constant Fidelity in Small Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-constant-fidelity-in-small-things\/bonaventure\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84285\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"84285\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-constant-fidelity-in-small-things\/bonaventure\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bonaventure.jpg?fit=1280%2C1666&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1666\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1265552900&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;4000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Saint Bonaventure\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bonaventure.jpg?fit=786%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bonaventure.jpg?resize=240%2C312\" alt=\"Saint Bonaventure\" width=\"240\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-84285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bonaventure.jpg?resize=240%2C312&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bonaventure.jpg?resize=115%2C150&amp;ssl=1 115w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bonaventure.jpg?resize=786%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 786w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bonaventure.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"drop\">In 1273, Pope Gregory X appointed Bonaventure cardinal-bishop of Albano. His legates came bearing the red hat and other symbols of office only to find Bonaventure washing the dishes. The saint told his visitors to hang the hat on a tree and wait in the garden until he was finished with his task.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span> had planned on writing a piece on Saint Bonaventure for his memorial today, but I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/brandonvogt.com\/learning-dishwashing-bishop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Vogt<\/a>&#8216;s blog has a great piece by Bert Ghezzi that fits the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Go read it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1273, Pope Gregory X appointed Bonaventure cardinal-bishop of Albano. His legates came bearing the red hat and other symbols of office only to find Bonaventure washing the dishes. The saint told his visitors to hang the hat on a tree and wait in the garden until he was finished with his task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-lVq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":97728,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/bonaventure\/","url_meta":{"origin":84284,"position":0},"title":"Bonaventure","author":"Thom","date":"15 July 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Saint Bonaventure (1221 - 1274) Bonaventure, whose memorial is today in the Ordinary Form, received his (much delayed) doctorate in theology in Paris in 1257, in the same class as Saint Thomas Aquinas. 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