{"id":20512,"date":"2019-11-20T18:07:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/ecuador-consacrazione-della-chiesa-di-santantonio-di-padova\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:08:28","slug":"ecuador-consacrazione-della-chiesa-di-santantonio-di-padova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/ecuador-consacrazione-della-chiesa-di-santantonio-di-padova\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: Consecration of the Church of San Antonio de Padua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Sunday, November 17, 2019, the Church of San Antonio de Padua in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, was solemnly dedicated by the Most Reverend Bertram V\u00edctor WICK ENZLER, Bishop of the Diocese of Santo Domingo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the dedication ceremony, relics were enshrined in the altar in keeping with ancient tradition. The relics were those of St. Anthony, the patron saint of the parish, and the Blessed Martyrs Zbigniew STRZA\u0141KOWSKI and Micha\u0142 TOMASZEK of Pariacoto, Peru.<br \/>\nThose participating in the ceremony included the Vicar Provincial of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland (Gda\u0144sk), Friar Tomasz RY\u0141KO, the Provincial Secretary, Friar Grzegorz KORDEK; the Provincial Delegate in Ecuador Friar Micha\u0142 PAGA; and some local missionaries, namely, Friars Krzysztof KURKIEWICZ, Miros\u0142aw DUBIELA, Zbigniew BRAUN, Mariusz BARTO\u0143; and Vicente Carlom\u00e1n TANDAZO GALLEGOS. The event was attended by representatives of the clergy and numerous faithful.<br \/>\nThe construction of the Conventual Franciscan church in Santo Domingo began in 1999. The next year, work began on the friary. Friars from the Province of Gdansk started the Conventual Franciscan presence here in 1995. Later, other missions were opened, in Shushufindi, Tulc\u00e1n and Quito (the capital of Ecuador).<br \/>\nIn Santo Domingo, the Alegr\u00eda de Vivir Childcare Center is being developed. It runs a nursery, an oratory, provides compensatory education courses and tutoring, manages a soup kitchen and runs a sports club for children and young people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Robert KOZIELSKI<br \/>\nProvincial Secretary for the Missions<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, November 17, 2019, the Church of San Antonio de Padua in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, was solemnly dedicated by the Most Reverend Bertram V\u00edctor WICK ENZLER, Bishop of the Diocese of Santo Domingo. During the dedication ceremony, relics were enshrined in the altar in keeping with ancient tradition. The relics were those of St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,132,148],"tags":[640],"class_list":["post-20512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-falc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-ecuador-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}