{"id":196126,"date":"2025-10-15T16:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=196126"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:12:42","slug":"polish-donor-gifts-pope-leo-xiv-purebred-arabian-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/196126\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish donor gifts Pope Leo XIV purebred Arabian horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Pope Leo XIV has received a purebred Arabian horse as a gift, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-10\/pope-leo-xiv-receives-arabian-horse-polish-donor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vatican News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Proton, a purebred Arabian, was given to the Pope on Wednesday by Andrzej Michalski, owner and founder of the Michalski Stud Farm, in Ko&#322;obrzeg-Budzistowo, Poland.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When I saw the photos of the future Pope on horseback in Peru, the idea came to me that I wanted to give him a beautiful Arabian horse&mdash;one that would be worthy of him, and white, because white naturally corresponds to the Pope&rsquo;s white cassock,&rdquo; Mr. Michalski told Vatican News.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that this gesture was his way of expressing gratitude and responding to the Pope&rsquo;s appeal to strengthen love through concrete actions.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, other donors have already gifted the Pope a white motorcycle and an electric car.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV has received a purebred Arabian horse as a gift, Vatican News reports. Proton, a purebred Arabian, was given to the Pope on Wednesday by Andrzej Michalski, owner and founder of the Michalski Stud Farm, in Ko&#322;obrzeg-Budzistowo, Poland. &ldquo;When I saw the photos of the future Pope on horseback in Peru, the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":196121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196128,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196126\/revisions\/196128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}