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The Life of St. Anthony of Padua
ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA—1195-1231 A.D.
St. Anthony of Padua is one of the most famous disciples of St.
Francis of Assisi.
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He was a famous preacher and worker of miracles in his own day, and throughout the eight centuries since his death he has so generously come to the assistance of the faithful who invoke him, that he is known throughout the world.
St.
Anthony's Youth & Conversion
St. Anthony was born in the year 1195 A. D. at Lisbon (Portugal) where his father was a captain in the royal army. Already at the age of fifteen years, he had entered the Congregation of Canons Regular of St.
Augustine and devoted himself with great earnestness both to study and to the practice of piety in the Monastery at Coimbra (Portugal).
About that time some of the first members of the Order of Friars Minor, which St. Francis has founded in 1206 A.
D. came to Coimbra. They begged from the Canons Regular a small and very poor place, from which by their evange