Saint Anthony

After his first experience in northern Italy, Anthony’s duties as preacher and teacher now took him over the Alps

Despite some initial reservations, the founder of the Franciscan Order commissioned our saint to teach theology to his own friars

For the first time since the pandemic, the June 13 Anthonian Days are starting again in earnest. This year, from Wednesday, June 12 to Sunday, June 16, Franciscan friar Father Fabio Turrisendo, from the Pontifical Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, Italy, will be bringing two first class relics from our Saint’s Basilica to the Archdiocese of Toronto. One Relic contains fragments of St. Anthony’s Facial Skin. Father Turrisendo will visit various churches in the Toronto area. 

For the first time since the pandemic, the June 13 Anthonian Days are starting again in earnest. This year Franciscan friar Father Bortolino Maistrello, from the Pontifical Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, Italy, will be bringing two first class relics from our Saint’s Basilica. One Relic contains fragments of St. Anthony’s Facial Skin. Father Maistrello will visit various churches in the area of the Archdiocese of Melbourne, Victoria, from Friday, June 7 to Sunday, June 9, and then he will be in the area of the Archdiocese of Adelaide, South Australia from Wednesday, June 12 to Sunday, June 16. 

Two holy Relics of St. Anthony of Padua will visit the Archdiocese of New York as well as the dioceses of Brooklyn and Paterson from Saturday, June 8 to Sunday, June 16. The two first-class Relics will be accompanied by Fathers Alessandro Ratti and Mario Conte, two Franciscan friars from the Pontifical Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, Italy.

Anthony’s period of peaceful retreat in the Montepaolo hermitage comes to a sudden end as his life takes an unexpected turn