{"id":218746,"date":"2018-11-30T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=218746"},"modified":"2018-11-30T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:22:31","slug":"connection-between-national-cathedral-and-st-john-jacob-the-new-chosebite-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/connection-between-national-cathedral-and-st-john-jacob-the-new-chosebite-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Connection between National Cathedral and St John Jacob the New Chosebite explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Saint John Jacob chose to live in the desert of Hozeva, almost 3,000 km far away from his homeland Romania, a particle of his holy relics will be enshrined in the National Cathedral and that is not accidental.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A fragment of St John Jacob the New Chosebite\u2019s holy relics and the epitrachelion he wore during his life, as well as particles of holy relics of Chosebite martyrs were offered Thursday by the Patriarch of Jerusalem for the National Cathedral in Bucharest.<\/p>\n

Connection between the National Cathedral and St John Jacob<\/h4>\n

First, his presence in the Romanian People\u2019s Salvation Cathedral is justified by the fact that he is of Romanian origin. \u2018The Holy Romanian in the Holy Land,\u2019 as Patriarch Daniel said on Thursday, November 29.<\/p>\n

A second fact is that one of the two chapels that will be organized at the basement of the National Cathedral will be dedicated to Saint John Jacob. The Saint\u2019s holy relics and epitrachelion will be enshrined there.<\/p>\n

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Reliquary containing the holy relics and epitrachelion of St John Jacob the New Chosebite. Photo: Basilica.ro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One thing less known is that the new National Cathedral is dedicated to the Saint\u2019s father, Maxim, who is one of \u2018the heroes on whose bones modern Romania, centennial Romania stands.\u2019<\/p>\n

Saint John Jacob\u2019s father died in 1916 as a hero when Romania entered the First World War.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the consecration of the National Cathedral dedicated to Romania\u2019s heroes and the arrival in Romania of the holy relics of a Romanian Saint who was a war orphan \u2018are linked in a providential way,\u2019 as the Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of\u00a0Basilica.ro<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although Saint John Jacob chose to live in the desert of Hozeva, almost 3,000 km far away from his homeland Romania, a particle of his holy relics will be enshrined in the National Cathedral and that is not accidental. A fragment of St John Jacob the New Chosebite\u2019s holy relics and the epitrachelion he wore…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[16433,886,3939,14849,15620],"class_list":["post-218746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate","tag-catedrala-mantuirii-neamului-en","tag-national-cathedral","tag-romanian-saints","tag-saint-john-jacob","tag-stiri-ortodoxe-en"],"better_featured_image":{"id":218738,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1600,"height":853,"file":"2018\/11\/legatura-dintre-Catedrala-Nationala-si-Sf-Ioan-Iacob.jpeg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"legatura-dintre-Catedrala-Nationala-si-Sf-Ioan-Iacob-360x360.jpeg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/legatura-dintre-Catedrala-Nationala-si-Sf-Ioan-Iacob-360x360.jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"legatura-dintre-Catedrala-Nationala-si-Sf-Ioan-Iacob-890x474.jpeg","width":890,"height":474,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/legatura-dintre-Catedrala-Nationala-si-Sf-Ioan-Iacob-890x474.jpeg"},"large":{"file":"legatura-dintre-Catedrala-Nationala-si-Sf-Ioan-Iacob-1024x546.jpeg","width":1024,"height":546,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/legatura-dintre-Catedrala-Nationala-si-Sf-Ioan-Iacob-1024x546.jpeg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":218746,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/legatura-dintre-Catedrala-Nationala-si-Sf-Ioan-Iacob.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218746\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=218746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218746\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218738\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=218746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=218746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=218746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}