{"id":101789,"date":"2022-08-10T14:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/36688723"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:07:33","slug":"36688723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/36688723","title":{"rendered":"This Old Florida Shrine Celebrates the Mother of the Virgin Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LightningLoader, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia CommonWhen you think of old shrines made with stone and tile, you likely conjure images of shrines in Europe, Jerusalem, or Thailand. But, you might be surprised to know that Florida has a religious shrine, and it was dedicated to the mother of the Virgin Mary, St. Anne. Of the shrine, the Lakeland Ledger has written: &#8220;Historically speaking, it might be one of the most unique religious sites in Central Florida.&#8221;The History of the St. Anne Shrine: In 1920, Catholics from Canada came to Florida to escape Canada&#8217;s winters. These visitors decided to build a shrine to St. Anne de Beaupre, the mother of the Virgin Mary, on a piece of property east of Lake Wales. They built an elaborate chapel, a pedestal, and a grotto with a moat using native Florida rock. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Holy Spirit Catholic Church (@holyspiritlakewales) Approximately six years later, a French artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LightningLoader, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Common. When you think of old shrines made with stone and tile, you likely conjure images of shrines in Europe, Jerusalem, or Thailand. But,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}