{"id":350324,"date":"2022-01-11T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=350324"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:33:42","slug":"metropolitan-of-banat-celebrated-his-name-day-eating-with-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/metropolitan-of-banat-celebrated-his-name-day-eating-with-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan of Banat celebrated his name day eating with the homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Metropolitan Ioan of Banat celebrated his name day on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/320127875434345\/posts\/1047819659331826\/\">Friday<\/a> by having lunch with the beneficiaries of the Timi\u0219oara Municipality&#8217;s Centre for Emergency and Crisis Situations. The hierarch is an important supporter of the city&#8217;s social work, periodically offering large amounts of food for its social assistance institutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His Eminence had lunch with the homeless who currently live in 11 utility-connected containers offered by the city&#8217;s Centre for Emergency and Crisis Situations in\u00a0P\u0103durea Verde, Timi\u0219oara.<\/p>\n<p>They ate a hot meal together with the metropolitan and sang him songs for his birthday, including religious songs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_350034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350034\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-350034 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/271559866_10223716884083022_886279794785980687_n-890x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Timi\u0219oara Social Assistance Direction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The moment was captured in a painting by Sebastian Alexa, a trainer of the Timi\u0219oara Social Assistance Direction.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan of Banat also offered hot food to the migrants hosted by the same institution at the local Railway High School.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrated hierarch&#8217;s generosity manifested towards other socially vulnerable people, as well: he offered an important amount of food for the Canteen of the Timi\u0219oara Social Assistance Direction, announced the local officials.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-350036\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/271587125_10223716881762964_4633108675033330057_n-1-890x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"501\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His Eminence Ioan is famous for the tons of foods he constantly sends to the social centres and public hospitals in the county of Timi\u0219.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Timi\u0219oara Social Assistance Direction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan Ioan of Banat celebrated his name day on Friday by having lunch with the beneficiaries of the Timi\u0219oara Municipality&#8217;s Centre for Emergency and Crisis Situations. The hierarch is an important supporter of the city&#8217;s social work, periodically offering large amounts of food for its social assistance institutions. His Eminence had lunch with the homeless&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":350033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[13540,23527,4939,10386,246],"class_list":["post-350324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-en","tag-archdiocese-of-timisoara","tag-metropolis-of-banat","tag-metropolitan-ioan","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romania"],"better_featured_image":{"id":350033,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1843,"height":1037,"file":"2022\/01\/271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1-890x501.jpg"},"large":{"file":"271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1-1024x576.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1-1024x576.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1-1536x864.jpg","width":1536,"height":864,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1-1536x864.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":350324,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/271534626_10223716873202750_1309080426638423379_n-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350324\/"}],"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\/19\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=350324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350324\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350033\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=350324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=350324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=350324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}