{"id":795,"date":"2025-01-15T12:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=795"},"modified":"2025-01-15T12:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:12:42","slug":"saints-of-the-day-2025-01-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2025\/01\/15\/saints-of-the-day-2025-01-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints of the Day &#8211; 2025-01-15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Paul of Thebes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Paul of Thebes was born in Egypt around 227 in the Thebaid of Egypt. Settling into a mountain cave, Saint Paul dwelt there for ninety-one years, praying incessantly to God both day and night. He sustained himself on dates and bread, which a raven brought him, and he clothed himself with palm leaves. Saint Paul of Thebes died in the year 341, when he was 113 years old. He did not establish a single monastery, but soon after his end there were many imitators of his life, and they filled the desert with monasteries. Saint Paul is honored as the first desert-dweller and hermit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oca.org\/saints\/lives\/2025\/01\/15\/100196-venerable-paul-of-thebes\">OCA Site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John the Hut-Dweller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pansophios the Martyr of Alexandria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul of Thebes Saint Paul of Thebes was born in Egypt around 227 in the Thebaid of Egypt. Settling into a mountain cave, Saint Paul dwelt there for ninety-one years, praying incessantly to God both day and night. He sustained himself on dates and bread, which a raven brought him, and he clothed himself with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}