{"id":4485,"date":"2010-06-06T06:38:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T06:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/worth-a-thousand-words-the-mother-of-a-saint.html"},"modified":"2010-06-06T06:38:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T06:38:56","slug":"worth-a-thousand-words-the-mother-of-a-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/worth-a-thousand-words-the-mother-of-a-saint.html","title":{"rendered":"Worth a thousand words: the mother of a saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/ALeqM5i_MErzZnft5ng_4BVtEomocPmSsQ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ALeqM5i_MErzZnft5ng_4BVtEomocPmSsQ.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/212\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/ALeqM5i_MErzZnft5ng_4BVtEomocPmSsQ-thumb-373x512-14575.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0pt auto 20px\" height=\"512\" width=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe 100-year-old mother of Father Jerzy Popieliszko, Marianna, center, prays at her son&#8217;s grave in front of the St. Stanislaw Kostka church in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 5, 2010, ahead of the Sunday beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko. <\/p>\n<p>Popieluszko, the Solidarity chaplain, was tortured and murdered by the communist secret police in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jyeqW-xFHe9hA8xDTWMB26i4NXzAD9G5MR2O0\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jyeqW-xFHe9hA8xDTWMB26i4NXzAD9G5MR2O0\">  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 100-year-old mother of Father Jerzy Popieliszko, Marianna, center, prays at her son&#8217;s grave in front of the St. Stanislaw Kostka church in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 5, 2010, ahead of the Sunday beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko. 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