Happy feast of Saint Anthony of Padua.

[CBHagman]

Today is the feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, the legendary preacher who set out for a very different career. Maybe that's why he's fascinated me so much over the years. It doesn't hurt that my parents used to ask for his intercession and/or thank him when things turned out as they expected.

But there's more to his story than that. Here is Leonard Foley's article on this Franciscan saint:


http://www.stanthony.org/aboutanthony/WhoIs.asp

I was amused when I went to the following website and noticed what I like to call the Saint Anthony search engine (see upper right-hand corner).

http://www.americancatholic.org/

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1. Thanks for sharing

I knew very little about St. Anthony. Sounds like the kind of priest/preacher we need more of.