{"id":83282,"date":"2026-06-04T08:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83282"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:36:34","slug":"the-tsunami-that-receded-before-the-blessed-sacrament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-tsunami-that-receded-before-the-blessed-sacrament\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tsunami That Receded Before The Blessed Sacrament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/web3-tsunami-wave-water-shutterstock.jpg?resize=620,350&amp;q=75\" alt=\"FALA TSUNAMI\" width=\"427\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the start of the 20th century a great undersea earthquake shook the Pacific Ocean and casued a tsunami that devastated the shorelines of many cities. However, <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.therealpresence.org\/eucharst\/mir\/english_pdf\/Tumaco.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the local inhabitants of Tumaco, Colombia<\/a>, a huge wave was pushed back when the local priest processed out with the Blessed Sacrament.<\/p>\n<p>The people could see the giant wave approaching the city and so Fr. Larrondo gathered up his courage and<strong>\u00a0with the Holy Eucharist placed in a monstrance, processed head-on towards the wave. He said to the people, &#8220;Let us go, my people. Let us go toward the beach, and may God have pity on us.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: At the start of the 20th century a great undersea earthquake shook the Pacific Ocean and casued a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83284,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83282\/revisions\/83284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}