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SUMMARY:St. Anthony of Padua
DESCRIPTION:ST ANTHONY OF PADUA 3\n◊◊◊\nAnthony was born in the year 1195 at Lisbon\, Portugal\, where his father\nwas a captain in the royal army. Already at the age of fifteen years the youth had\nentered the Congregation of Canons Regular of St. Augustine… in the monastery\nat Coimbra\, when… the relics of St. Berard and companions\, the first martyrs of\nthe Franciscan Order\, were being brought from Africa to Coimbra. At the sight of\nthem\, Anthony was seized with an intense desire to suffer martyrdom as a\nFranciscan missionary in Africa. In response to his repeated and humble\npetitions\, the permission of his superiors to transfer to the Franciscan Order was\nreluctantly given. At his departure\, one of the canons said to him ironically: “Go\nthen\, perhaps you will become a saint in the new order.” Anthony replied:\n“Brother\, when you hear that I have become a saint\, you will surely praise God\nfor it.”\nIn the quiet little Franciscan convent at Coimbra he received a friendly\nreception\, and in the very same year his earnest wish to be sent to the missions\nin Africa was fulfilled… Anthony scarcely set foot on African soil when he was\nseized with a grievous illness. Even after recovering from it\, he was so weak that\,\nresigning himself to the will of God\, he boarded a boat back to Portugal…\nAnthony was sent to Forli with some other brethren\, to attend the\nceremony of ordination. At the convent there the superior wanted somebody to\ngive an address for the occasion. Everybody excused himself\, saying that he was\nnot prepared\, until Anthony was finally asked to give it. When he\, too\, excused\nhimself most humbly\, his superior ordered him by virtue of the vow of obedience\nto give the sermon. Anthony began to speak in a very reserved manner; but soon\nholy animation seized him\, and he spoke with such eloquence\, learning\, and\nunction that everybody was fairly amazed. When St. Francis was informed of the\nevent\, he gave Anthony the mission to preach all over Italy. At the request of the\nbrethren\, Anthony was later commissioned also to teach theology\, “but in such a\nmanner\,” St. Francis distinctly wrote\, “that the spirit of prayer be not\nextinguished either in yourself or in the other brethren.”\nSt. Anthony himself placed greater value on the salvation of souls than on\nlearning. For that reason he never ceased to exercise his office as preacher along\nwith the work of teaching. The concourse of hearers was sometimes so great\nthat no church was large enough to accommodate the audiences and he had to\npreach in the open air. He wrought veritable miracles of conversion. Deadly\nenemies were reconciled with each other. Thieves and usurers made restitution\nof their ill-gotten goods. Calumniators and detractors recanted and apologized.\nHe was so energetic in defending the truths of the Catholic Faith that many\nheretics re-entered the pale of the Church\, so that Pope Gregory IX called him\n“the ark of the covenant.”… In all his labors he never forgot the admonition of his\nspiritual Father\, that the spirit of prayer must not be extinguished. If he spent\nthe day in teaching\, and heard the confessions of sinners till late in the evening\,\nthen many hours of the night were spent in intimate union with God…\nDue to his taxing labors and his austere practice of penance\, he soon felt\nhis strength so spent that he prepared himself for death. After receiving the last\nsacraments he kept looking upward with a smile on his countenance. When he\nwas asked what he saw there\, he answered: “I see my Lord.”… He breathed forth\nhis soul on June 13\, 1231\, being only thirty-six years old. Pope Gregory IX\nenrolled him among the saints the very next year… In 1946 he was declared a\nDoctor of the Church. \n3 Habig\, Marion O.F.M. The Franciscan Book of Saints. Chicago\, IL: Franciscan Herald Press\, 1959. 415-418.
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