National Catholic Register

Here’s What the Portuguese Want You to Know About St. Anthony of Padua Before World Youth Day

Everyone’s favorite patron saint of finding lost things is not from where you may think. The Franciscan saint known around the world as St. Anthony of Padua was not born in the Italian city of Padua ...
Washington Examiner

Even in desert retreat, monks feel Egypt’s turmoil

ST. ANTHONY’S MONASTERY, Egypt (AP) — In a cave here high in the desert mountains of eastern Egypt, the man said to be the father of monasticism took refuge from the temptations of the world some 17 ...
National Catholic Register

St. Anthony of Padua, Pray For Us!

St. Anthony came into the world as “Fernando” in 1195 in Lisbon, Portugal of probably noble parents. He was a contemporary of St. Francis of Assisi and one of the first generation of Franciscans. He ...
JSTOR Daily

Depicting Religious Combat in the Thirteenth-Century Program at the Monastery of St. Anthony at the Red Sea

The nave paintings at the monastery of St. Anthony were executed by local artists in the early thirteenth century, during a period of mounting concerns over the Arabization and Islamization of the ...