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Saint Anthony Of Padua.
Confessor.
Doctor Of The Church.
Feast Day 13 June.
Double.
White Vestments.
English: Apparition of The Child Jesus
to Saint Anthony of Padua.
Português: Aparição do Menino Jesus
a Santo Antônio de Pádua.
Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664).
Date: 1627-1630.
Current location: São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil.
This File: 4 January 2010.
User: Dornicke
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“Always present and living in The Church, The Holy Ghost raised up, in the 13th-Century, The Sons of Dominic and The Sons of Francis”, writes Dom Guéranger in his “The Liturgical Year”. “These new hosts, organised for new needs, threw themselves into the arena, pursuing heretics, thundering against vice, mixing with the people whom they enrolled in crowds into their Third Orders, the assured refuge of Christian Life.
“Of all The Sons of The Patriarch of Assisi, the best-known, the most powerful before God and men, is Anthony, whose Feast Day we are Celebrating."
Born at Lisbon, Portugal, of noble parents, he despised all riches (Gospel). Full of The Holy Ghost, Who transformed The Apostles, he entered The Religious Host so as to be able to fight for The Faith and to be ready when The Master came (Gospel).
Living a retired life in Tuscany, he gave himself up to Divine Contemplation (Introit); he then received the mission to Preach the Gospel. The wisdom of his Doctrine and his eloquence caused him to be called The Ark of The Testament and The Hammer of Heretics.
A year before his death, he came to Padua, where, loaded with merits, he died at the age of thirty-five in 1231, and was established by Jesus over all His Riches (Communion).
Remembering how Saint Anthony recovered, by Divine Intervention, a Sacred Book that had been stolen from him, let us ask this Saint not only to make us recover Earthly and perishable things, but, also, to obtain for us the Spiritual help by which we may deserve to enjoy Eternal Riches (Collect).
Mass: Os justi.
