{"id":17452,"date":"2024-04-03T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=17452"},"modified":"2024-04-03T11:46:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:46:27","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-saint-benildus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-saint-benildus\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Saint Benildus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">W<\/span>ithin the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-eglise-saint-medard-de-saugues\/\">\u00c9glise Saint-M\u00e9dard de Saugues<\/a> lies the shrine and relics of a local saint, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benildus_Roman%C3%A7on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saint Benildus<\/a> (1805-1862). He was a teacher with the De La Salle Brothers, and early in his career he taught in schools throughout the region. In 1841, he started the school in Saugues and remained there for twenty years until his death. The locals revered him as a saint even in his own lifetime, and it was said of him that &#8220;he did ordinary things in extraordinary ways&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378256606_a405cff554_4k-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378256606_a405cff554_4k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378256606_a405cff554_4k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378256606_a405cff554_4k-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378256606_a405cff554_4k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53378256606_a405cff554_4k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>19 August 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Saugues, Haute-Loire D\u00e9partement, Region of Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, France <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"665\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-02.png 958w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-02-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-02-150x104.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-02-768x533.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"437\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-arrow-02-St-Privat-1024x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-arrow-02-St-Privat-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-arrow-02-St-Privat-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-arrow-02-St-Privat-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-arrow-02-St-Privat-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-arrow-02-St-Privat-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VP-arrow-02-St-Privat-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the \u00c9glise Saint-M\u00e9dard de Saugues lies the shrine and relics of a local saint, Saint Benildus (1805-1862). He was a teacher with the De La Salle Brothers, and early in his career he taught in schools throughout the region. In 1841, he started the school in Saugues and remained there for twenty years until his death. The locals revered [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2023","category-via-podiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452","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=17452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17458,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions\/17458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}