JUNE 13 - SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA
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Antonio da Padova
António de Lisboa
Evangelical Doctor
Memorial
13 June
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Anthony’s wealthy family wanted him to be a great nobleman, but for the sake of Christ he became a poor Franciscan. Priest.
When the remains of Saint Berard and his companions, the first Franciscan martyrs, were brought to be buried in his church, Anthony was moved to leave his order, enter the Friars Minor, and go to Morocco to evangelize. Shipwrecked at Sicily, he joined some other brothers who were going to the church in Portiuncula. Lived in a cave at San Paolo leaving only to attend Mass and sweep the nearby monastery. One day when a scheduled speaker failed to appear, the brothers pressed him into speaking. He impressed them so that he was thereafter constantly travelling, evangelizing, preaching, and teaching theology through Italy and France.
A gifted speaker, he attracted crowds everywhere he went, speaking in multiple tongues; legend says that even the fish loved to listen. Miracle worker. One of the most beloved of saints, his images and statues are found everywhere – though none of them portray him as a heavy-set man, which some reports claim he was. Proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946.
One source of the well-known patronage for the recovery of lost objects comes from a legend that, long after Anthony’s death, his old prayer book was kept as a treasured relic, and one day it disappeared. People prayed for help in finding the lost item, a novice found it and returned it; he later admitted that he had “borrowed” the book and returned it after receiving a vision of an angry Anthony.
Born
1195 at Lisbon, Portugal
Died
13 June 1231 of natural causes
buried on the Tuesday following his death in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Padua, Italy
legend says that all the sick who visited his new grave were healed
Canonized
30 May 1232 by Pope Gregory IX at Spoleto, Italy
Patronage
against barrenness
against shipwreck
against starvation
against starving
against sterility
American Indians
amputees
animals
asses
domestic animals
elderly people
expectant mothers
faith in the Blessed Sacrament
fishermen
harvests
horses
lost articles
lower animals
mail
mariners, sailors, watermen, boatmen
oppressed people
orphans
paupers
poor people
pregnant women
seekers of lost articles
starving people
swineherds
travel hostesses
travellers
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Brazil
Portugal (traditional, and proclaimed on 13 June 1934 by Pope XI)
Tigua Indians
Rogationists

Alagoinhas, Brazil, diocese of
Beaumont, Texas, diocese of
Campo Maior, Brazil, diocese of
Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Italy, diocese of
Masbate, Philippines, diocese of
Olinda e Recife, Brazil, archdiocese of
Portalegre–Castelo Branco, Portugal, diocese of
San Antonio, Texas, archdiocese of
Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Conza–Nusco–Bisaccia, Italy, archdiocese of
Timmins, Ontario, diocese of

Partido de San Antonio de Areco, Argentina

in Brazil
Alvorada de Minas
Araçuaí
Astolfo Dutra
Bicas
Borgo Hermada
Caetanópolis
Cajuri
Campanha
Canãa
Caparaó
Chiador
Coluna
Cristiano Otoni
Curvelo
Diamantina
Ewbank da Câmara
Fiobbio, Albino
Fortuna de Minas
Goianá
Gouveia
Governador Valadares
Grão Mogol
Ibertioga
Ibiracatu
Igarapé
Igaratinga
Inimutaba
Ipanema
Itacambira
Itamonte
Itapagipe
Itaverava
Itinga
Itutinga
Jacinto
Jacutinga
Jampruca
José Raydan
Juiz de Fora
Lagoa Dourada
Luislândia
Mamonas
Mantena
Maravilhas
Mateus Leme
Mato Verde
Mesquita
Miraí
Naque
Olaria
Olle
Ouro Branco
Paracatu
Passa Vinte
Patos de Minas
Peçanha
Pequi
Piranguçu
Planura
Pratinha
Presidente Bernardes
Prudente de Morais
Riacho dos Machados
Rio Acima
Rio Doce
Salinas
Santa Bárbara
Santo Antônio do Amparo
Santo Antônio do Aventureiro
Santo Antônio do Grama
Santo Antônio do Itambé
Santo Antônio do Jacinto
Santo Antônio do Monte
Santo Antônio do Retiro
Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo
São Romão
Sardoá
Sete Lagoas
Silveirânia
Teixeiras
Tiradentes
Tiros

in Italy
Afragola
Amantea
Andretta
Anzio
Aragno, Aquila
Avetrana
Bisaccia
Capistrello
Castello-Molina di Fiemme
Castelsaraceno
Castiglione Cosentino
Castiglione d’Otranto
Castrignano de ‘Greci
Ceglie
Cianciana, Agrigento
Collebrincioni, Aquila
Fabrizia
Farindola
Favara
Ferrazzano
Fluminimaggiore
Gemona del Friuli
Giano Vetusto
Lago, Castellabate
Moncalvo
Nicolosi
Padua
Ponte Mefita, Contursi Terme
San Paolo di Civitate
Terranuova Bracciolini
Torelli, Mercogliano
Venice

in Mexico
San Antonio Tlayacapan

in Portugal
Lisbon
Portalegre
Reguengos de Monsaraz
Vendas Novas
Vila Real

Dorado, Puerto Rico

San Fulgencio, Spain

Sandia Indian Pueblo
Representation
Infant Jesus (referring to his vision)
book
bread
Christ-child in his arms
Christ-child on a book
fire in his hand
fire on his breast
Franciscan habit
kneeling mule
lily