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See also:SAINT See also:ANTHONY OF See also:PADUA (1195-1231) , the most celebrated of the followers of See also:Saint See also:Francis of See also:Assisi, was See also:born at See also:Lisbon on the 15th of See also:August 1195 . In his fifteenth See also:year he entered the Augustinian See also:order, and subsequently joined the See also:Franciscans in 1220 . He wished to devote himself to missionary labours in See also:North See also:Africa, but the See also:ship in which he sailed was See also:cast by a See also:storm on the See also:coast of See also:Sicily, whence he made his way to See also:Italy . He taught See also:theology at See also:Bologna, See also:Toulouse, See also:Montpellier and See also:Padua, and won a See also:great reputation as a preacher throughout Italy . He was the See also:leader of the rigorous party in the Franciscan order against the mitigations introduced by the See also:general See also:Elias . His See also:death took See also:place at the See also:convent of Ara Coeli, near Padua, on the 13th of See also:June 1231 . He was canonized by See also:Gregory IX. in the following year, and his festival is kept on the 13th of June . He is regarded as the See also:patron saint of Padua and of See also:Portugal, and is appealed to by devout clients for finding lost See also:objects . The meagre accounts of his See also:life which we possess have been supplemented by numerous popular legends, which represent him as a continuous worker of miracles, and describe his marvellous eloquence by pictures of fishes leaping out of the See also:water to hear him . There are many confraternities established in his See also:honour throughout Christendom, and the number of "pious" See also:biographies devoted to him would fill many volumes . The most trustworthy See also:modern See also:works are by A . Lepitre, St See also:Antoine de Padoue (See also:Paris, 1902, in See also:Les See also:Saints See also:series: See also:good bibliography; Eng. trans. by Edith See also:Guest, See also:London, 1902), and by See also:Leopold de Cherance, St Antoine de Padoue (Paris, 1895; Eng. trans., London, 1896) . His works, consisting of sermons and a mystical commentary on the See also:Bible, were published in an appendix to those of St Francis, in the Annales Minorum of See also:Luke See also:Wadding (See also:Antwerp, 1623), and are also reproduced by Horoy, Medii aevi bibliotheca patristica (1880, vi . PP . 555 et sqq.) ; see See also:art . " See also:Antonius von Padua " in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie . |
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