{"id":83946,"date":"2026-06-26T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83946"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:45:55","slug":"cardinal-ernest-simoni-climbs-apparition-hill-in-medjugorje-at-the-age-of-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/cardinal-ernest-simoni-climbs-apparition-hill-in-medjugorje-at-the-age-of-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Ernest Simoni Climbs Apparition Hill In Medjugorje At The Age Of 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Infovaticana<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/infovaticana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMGS_1200x675_20260625_082030_0000-1067x600.png\" alt=\"Cardinal Ernest Simoni climbs Apparition Hill in Medjugorje at the age of 97\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Ernest Simoni, one of the great witnesses to the communist persecution of the Church in Europe, ascended the Hill of Apparitions in Medjugorje this Tuesday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/infovaticana.com\/2026\/06\/18\/medjugorje-se-prepara-para-celebrar-el-45-aniversario-del-inicio-de-las-presuntas-apariciones-marianas\/\">on the eve of the 45th anniversary of the beginning of the alleged Marian apparitions.<\/a>\u00a0At 97 years of age, and after having spent eighteen years in prison and forced labor under Albania\u2019s communist dictatorship, the cardinal wished to personally make the pilgrimage to the place where thousands of faithful pray the Rosary each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Infovaticana: Cardinal Ernest Simoni, one of the great witnesses to the communist persecution of the Church in Europe, ascended.<\/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-83946","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\/83946","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=83946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83948,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83946\/revisions\/83948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}