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Feast
Day: June 13
- Also
known as
- Evangelical Doctor
- Profile
- 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 @ Sicily, he joined some other brothers who were going to
Portiuncula. Lived in a cave @ 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. Wonder worker. One of the most beloved of saints, his
images and statues are found everywhere. Proclaimed a Doctor
of the Church on 16
January 1946.
- Born
- 1195
@ Lisbon, Portugal
- Died
- 13
June 1231
- Canonized
- 1232
- Name Meaning
- inestimable
- Patronage
- against shipwrecks,
against starvation, against starving, American Indians,
amputees,
animals,
asses,
barrenness,
boatmen,
domestic animals,
elderly people,
expectant mothers,
faith in the Blessed Sacrament,
fishermen,
harvests,
horses,
lost articles,
lower animals,
mail,
mariners,
oppressed people, paupers,
poor people,
Portugal,
pregnant women,
sailors,
seekers of lost articles, shipwrecks, starvation,
starving people, sterility,
swineherds, Tigua Indians, travel hostesses, travellers,
watermen
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