{"id":7213,"date":"2004-03-21T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/03\/21\/70-year-old-widower-grandfather-ordained-to-priesthood\/"},"modified":"2004-03-21T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T15:38:54","slug":"70-year-old-widower-grandfather-ordained-to-priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/03\/70-year-old-widower-grandfather-ordained-to-priesthood\/","title":{"rendered":"70-Year-Old Widower, Grandfather Ordained To Priesthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">MASSILLON, Ohio &#8212; A 70-year-old widower with 10 children and almost two dozen grandchildren begins a new career Saturday &#8212; as a Roman Catholic priest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Samuel Leonard was ordained Friday by Bishop Thomas Tobin of the Youngstown diocese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Leonard will work in New Bedford, Mass. That&#8217;s where his religious order, the Institute of the Incarnate Word, runs St. Kilian Church. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Leonard wanted to enter the priesthood when he was a boy. But he fell in love and married the former Mary Steigerwald, and they were married for 42 years until her death in 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Leonard says that after his wife died, he thought about the priesthood but didn&#8217;t think he could join because of his age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">A friend told him about the Institute of the Incarnate Word, which welcomed him with open arms despite his age.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsnet5.com\/news\/2938286\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MASSILLON, Ohio &#8212; A 70-year-old widower with 10 children and almost two dozen grandchildren begins a new career Saturday &#8212; as a Roman Catholic priest. Samuel Leonard was ordained Friday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}