{"id":87168,"date":"2026-10-02T08:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87168"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:36:48","slug":"no-one-disrespects-our-lady-fears-for-brazils-patron-saint-grip-country-ahead-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/no-one-disrespects-our-lady-fears-for-brazils-patron-saint-grip-country-ahead-of-election\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No One Disrespects Our Lady\u2019: Fears for Brazil\u2019s Patron Saint Grip Country Ahead Of Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7a8377a8239c58331e80d9ae5164c51f212291f1\/0_248_1952_1561\/master\/1952.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"Lula holds up a statue of Our Lady of Aparecida at a campaign rally\" width=\"319\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A row of Biblical proportions has erupted in the run-up to Brazil\u2019s presidential election, with the country\u2019s patron saint, Our Lady of Aparecida, emerging as an unlikely kingmaker in the deadlocked race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Ahead of Sunday\u2019s vote, the two frontrunners \u2013 the leftwing president, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, and his far-right challenger, Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro \u2013 are level in the polls. But in recent days, speculation that Bolsonaro \u2013 son of the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jair-bolsonaro\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> \u2013 might strip the widely cherished patroness of her position have caused a nationwide outcry, leaving some to question if it could tip the knife-edge election in favour of Lula, who is Catholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: A row of Biblical proportions has erupted in the run-up to Brazil\u2019s presidential election, with the country\u2019s.<\/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-87168","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\/87168","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=87168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87171,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87168\/revisions\/87171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}