St. Anthony of Padua

Saint Anthony was born in 1195th and at the age of fifteen he entered to the Augustinian Monastery. Shortly after being ordained for priest, he went into convent of Friar Minor near Coimbra. His biggest success was preaching, often under the open sky and thousands of people would gather around him. St. Anthony’s enthusiasm for spreading the Gospel was so huge that he was declared as Doctor of the Church. He died on June 13th 1231 in Arcella in Padua. There are few saints in Catholic Church by which God has worked miracles as it did through the intercessions of St. Anthony. In the pictures he appears with the baby Jesus in his arms, as he was once seen in his prayers with the lilies that reminds to the purity which he possessed.

After French revolution, the Franciscans were expelled from Corsica and their Church remained deserted. Faithful were visiting it on the feast of St. Anthony and one year, although it has passed several months from the fete, the lilies in the Church were still fresh. The faithful pray to Him when they want to find lost and stolen things. On one occasion, a Franciscan novice was bored of monastic life, left the community and took Saint’s book of Psalms with him. God conceded the St. Anthony’s prayers, so St. Anthony got his Book back and the young man returned to the priestly vocation.