{"id":11916,"date":"2022-01-26T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=11916"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:02:23","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-saint-benedict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-saint-benedict\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Saint Benedict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span>n Le\u00f3n, we checked into the Benedictine monastery in the city center. While most of the pilgrims checked into the albergue run by the Sisters, I took a room at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hospederiapax.com\/EN\/hotel.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hospederiapax.com\/EN\/hotel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hospederia Monastica Pax<\/a>, a hotel also run by the Sisters and located in basically the same building. Francine was arriving in Le\u00f3n today, and I thought she might like a more comfortable first night on Camino. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These extremely large carvings of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Benedict_Medal\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Benedict_Medal\" target=\"_blank\">Medal of Saint Benedict<\/a> are located within the monastery complex. I just love them, and the image on the left has been my phone background for going on nine years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9035978693_d28e5f5a77_o-copy-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9035978693_d28e5f5a77_o-copy-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9035978693_d28e5f5a77_o-copy-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9035978693_d28e5f5a77_o-copy-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9035978693_d28e5f5a77_o-copy-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9035978693_d28e5f5a77_o-copy-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9035978693_d28e5f5a77_o-copy-358x239.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9035978693_d28e5f5a77_o-copy.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-a92e3a06-7d67-4f84-b369-a7c961aeeb94\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 19 April 2013<strong><br>Place:<\/strong> Le\u00f3n (Province of Le\u00f3n, Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Spain)<br><strong>Today started:<\/strong> Mansilla de las Mulas (Province of Le\u00f3n, Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Spain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_20m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_20m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_20m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_20m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_20m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_20m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_20m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/El_Camino_Frances_20m.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\" id=\"block-504ee084-3f25-44ca-a84e-cc2407034f76\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Camino-Map-Cathedral-Cities-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Camino-Map-Cathedral-Cities-1024x627.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Le\u00f3n, we checked into the Benedictine monastery in the city center. While most of the pilgrims checked into the albergue run by the Sisters, I took a room at the Hospederia Monastica Pax, a hotel also run by the Sisters and located in basically the same building. Francine was arriving in Le\u00f3n today, and I thought she might like [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11919,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions\/11919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}