{"id":20395,"date":"2015-03-02T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/surfer-angel-guido-schaffer-considered-for-sainthood-2\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:30:17","slug":"surfer-angel-guido-schaffer-considered-for-sainthood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/surfer-angel-guido-schaffer-considered-for-sainthood-2.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Surfer Angel&#8217; Guido Schaffer Considered For Sainthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The universe could one day get a enthusiast saint of surfing now that a Vatican is <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">considering a Brazilian male famous as a \u201cSurfer Angel\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guido Sch\u00e4ffer, a doctor, took to a waves to bond to God; he helped others do a same. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Surfing for him was a totally celestial experience<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Story continues below)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The initial surfer saint? <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><\/p>\n<p>The initial surfer saint? <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><\/p>\n<p>The initial surfer saint? <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><\/p>\n<p>The initial surfer saint? <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><\/p>\n<p>The initial surfer saint? <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">http:\/\/t.co\/9th9JLUTWO<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">pic.twitter.com\/u0KCAFxXI4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alive Surf School (@AliveSurfSchool) <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">February 27, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was during Martin\u2019s bachelor celebration in 2009 that Sch\u00e4ffer, who was 34, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">drowned while surfing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then, people in a area have come to follow him, urge to him and move him gifts. Some even explain that he has saved gossamer pregnancies or helped women to turn pregnant. <\/p>\n<p>In November, a Holy See <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">issued a &#8220;nihil obstat,&#8221;<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">gave accede to Rio priests<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Lyons, who wrote an essay about Sch\u00e4ffer for a Wall Street Journal, told HuffPost Live that many people in Rio <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">believe it&#8217;s an act of God<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The canonization routine can take decades. The initial step is to be <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">proclaimed a &#8220;servant of God&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While a preference to concede Rio priests to contention justification is an \u201cenormous step\u201d in apropos a saint, Lyons told HuffPost Live, it doesn\u2019t pledge sainthood.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/03\/02\/surfer-angel-guido-shaffe_n_6773466.html?utm_hp_ref=hawaii&amp;ir=Hawaii<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe could one day get a enthusiast saint of surfing now that a Vatican is considering a Brazilian male famous as a \u201cSurfer Angel\u201d Guido Sch\u00e4ffer, a doctor, took to a waves to bond to God; he helped others do a same. \u201cSurfing for him was a totally celestial experience (Story continues below) The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-20395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}