{"id":83818,"date":"2026-06-20T08:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83818"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:11:59","slug":"pope-heads-to-northern-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-heads-to-northern-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Heads To Northern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/c682adf\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3447x2298+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F8d%2F6c%2F6c3d499021dced45d2f76c0257b1%2F95b00fe49dbd400eab8049b85293d1a1\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo\/Andrew Medichini)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pope-leo-xiv\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>is traveling Saturday to northern Italy to pay homage to two figures of Christian devotion: St. Augustine, the inspiration for his religious order, and Mother Frances Cabrini, the patron of migrants who became the first American saint.<\/p>\n<p>Leo\u2019s day trip marks the midway point of his summer 2026 grand tour of Italy, in which the American pope has scheduled a series of Saturday day trips up and down the peninsula and its islands to get to know his new flock.\u00a0The pope\u2019s first stop Saturday is the Lombardy city of Pavia to pray at the tomb of St. Augustine, the fifth-century titan of early Christianity who centuries later inspired the formation of Leo\u2019s Augustinian religious order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: \u00a0Pope Leo XIV\u00a0is traveling Saturday to northern Italy to pay homage to two figures of Christian devotion: St..<\/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-83818","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\/83818","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=83818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83819,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83818\/revisions\/83819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}