{"id":357,"date":"2015-07-26T22:16:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2016-08-06T20:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T20:02:03","slug":"saint-lucy-yi-zhenmei-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Saint Lucy Yi Zhenmei of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Saint-Lucy-Zhenmeif-advent.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-361\" src=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Saint-Lucy-Zhenmeif-advent-788x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Saint-Lucy-Zhenmeif-advent-788x1024.png 788w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Saint-Lucy-Zhenmeif-advent-231x300.png 231w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Saint-Lucy-Zhenmeif-advent.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saint Lucy was born to Catholic parents in Sichuan in 1815. Devout and pious from a young age, she made a vow of chastity at the age of 12.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Saint-Lucy-Zhenmei-prays-croppped3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-371\" src=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Saint-Lucy-Zhenmei-prays-croppped3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"927\" height=\"969\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Saint-Lucy-Zhenmei-prays-croppped3.png 927w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Saint-Lucy-Zhenmei-prays-croppped3-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the request of local priests, she taught the faith for many years in schools and in a convent as well as doing missionary work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/saint-lucy-impress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-372\" src=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/saint-lucy-impress-784x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/saint-lucy-impress-784x1024.png 784w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/saint-lucy-impress-230x300.png 230w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/saint-lucy-impress.png 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1862, she went with Father Wen Nair to Jiahanlong to found a mission. Many of the Friars, including Father Wen, were arrested and executed. The day after the execution, Lucy was put on trial. She refused to recant her faith, and was beheaded. Her feast day is February 19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aasian-angel1black-and-whiteweb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-634\" src=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aasian-angel1black-and-whiteweb-1024x799.png\" alt=\"Asian Angel 3\" width=\"474\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aasian-angel1black-and-whiteweb-1024x799.png 1024w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aasian-angel1black-and-whiteweb-300x234.png 300w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aasian-angel1black-and-whiteweb-768x599.png 768w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aasian-angel1black-and-whiteweb.png 1617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blue-asian-angel-blue-for-watercolor-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-636\" src=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blue-asian-angel-blue-for-watercolor-web-1024x945.png\" alt=\"Chinese Angelwatercolor-web\" width=\"474\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blue-asian-angel-blue-for-watercolor-web-1024x945.png 1024w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blue-asian-angel-blue-for-watercolor-web-300x277.png 300w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blue-asian-angel-blue-for-watercolor-web-768x708.png 768w, http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blue-asian-angel-blue-for-watercolor-web.png 1612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Lucy was born to Catholic parents in Sichuan in 1815. Devout and pious from a young age, she made a vow of chastity at the age of 12. At the request of local priests, she taught the faith for many years in schools and in a convent as well as doing missionary work. In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/?p=357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Lucy Yi Zhenmei of China<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejamesrefuge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}