Editing Anthony of Padua (section)

== Veneration as patron saint ==
Anthony's fame spread through Portuguese evangelization, and he has been known as the most celebrated of the followers of Francis of Assisi. He is the patron saint of Padua and many places in [[Portugal]] and in the countries of the former [[Portuguese Empire]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

He is especially invoked and venerated all over the world as the patron saint for the recovery of lost items and is credited with many miracles involving lost people, lost things and even lost spiritual goods.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.learnreligions.com/novena-saint-anthony-find-lost-article-542676 |title=Novena to Saint Anthony to Find a Lost Article – Prayer to Saint Anthony of Padua – Novena to Find a Lost Item|date=14 November 2007|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114201434/http://catholicism.about.com/od/prayers/qt/Novena_Ant_Lost.htm|archive-date=14 November 2007}}</ref>

St. Anthony Chaplets help devotees to meditate on the thirteen virtues of the saint. Some of these chaplets were used by members of confraternities that had Anthony as their patron saint.

=== North America ===
[[File:National Shrine of St. Anthony and Friary (Cincinnati, Ohio) - first class relic of St. Anthony.jpg|thumb|First class relic of Anthony displayed at the National Shrine of St. Anthony of Padua and Friary ([[Cincinnati, Ohio]])]]

In 1692, Spanish missionaries came across a small [[Payaya Indians|Payaya Indian]] community along what was then known as the [[Yanaguana (San Antonio)|Yanaguana]] River on the feast day of Saint Anthony, 13 June. The Franciscan chaplain, Father Damien Massanet, with agreement from General Domingo de Teran, renamed the rivers in his honor, and eventually built [[Alamo Mission in San Antonio|a mission nearby]], as well. This mission became the focal point of a small community that eventually grew in size and scope to become the seventh-largest city in the country, the [[San Antonio|U.S. city of San Antonio, Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Jun2004/Feature2.asp#F1 |title=San Antonio: The City of St. Anthony |website= St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online |publisher=Americancatholic.org |date= June 2004 |access-date=30 June 2010}}</ref>

In [[New York City]], the [[St. Anthony of Padua Church (Manhattan)|Shrine Church of St. Anthony]] in [[Greenwich Village]], [[Manhattan]] celebrates his [[calendar of saints|feast day]], starting with the traditional [[novena]] of prayers asking for his intercession on the 13 Tuesdays preceding his feast. This culminates with a week-long series of services and a street fair. A traditional Italian-style procession is held that day through the streets of its [[South Village]] neighborhood, during which a [[relic]] of the saint is carried for [[veneration]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stanthonynyc.org/id2.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105035040/http://www.stanthonynyc.org/id2.html|url-status = dead|archive-date=5 November 2009|title=Mass Schedule|website=stanthonynyc.org}}</ref>

[[File:Cudowny Obraz Swietego Antoniego w Przeworsku.jpg|thumbnail|Miraculous Image of Saint Anthony, by Franciszek Lekszycki OFM, 1649, [[Przeworsk]], Poland]]

Each year on the weekend of the last Sunday in August, [[North End, Boston|Boston's North End]] holds a feast in honor of Saint Anthony. Referred to as the "Feast of All Feasts", [[Feast of St. Anthony|Saint Anthony's Feast]] in Boston's North End was begun in 1919 by Italian immigrants from [[Montefalcione]], a small town near [[Naples]], where the tradition of honoring Saint Anthony goes back to 1688.<ref name="Aluia">{{cite news | first = Jason | last = Aluia | title = 94th St. Anthony's Feast Schedule Highlights – Friday, August 23 – Monday, August 26, 2013 | date = 19 August 2013 | url = http://northendwaterfront.com/2013/08/94th-st-anthonys-feast-highlights-friday-august-23-monday-august-26-2013/ | work = North End Waterfront.com | access-date = 29 August 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Broadsheet with image of Saint Antony of Padua MET DP867949 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[José Guadalupe Posada]] print of Saint Anthony, about 1910]]

Each year the [[Sandia Pueblo]] along with [[Santa Clara Pueblo]] celebrates the feast day of Saint Anthony with traditional Native American dances.{{sfn|Sweet|2004|p=}}

On 27 January 1907, in [[Beaumont, Texas]], a church was dedicated and named in honor of Saint Anthony. The church was later designated a cathedral in 1966 with the formation of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont]], but was not formally consecrated. On 28 April 1974, St. Anthony Cathedral was dedicated and consecrated by Bishop Warren Boudreaux. In 2006, [[Pope Benedict XVI]] granted the cathedral the designation of minor basilica. [[Saint Anthony Cathedral Basilica in Beaumont, Texas|St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica]] celebrated its 100th anniversary on 28 January 2007.<ref name=thc>{{Cite web|url=https://texasforesttrail.com/plan-your-adventure/historic-sites-and-cities/sites/st-anthony-cathedral-basilica|title=St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica|website=Forest Trail Region}}</ref>

St. Anthony gives his name to [[Mission San Antonio de Padua]], the third Franciscan mission dedicated along [[El Camino Real (California)|El Camino Real]] in [[California]] in 1771.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://missionsanantonio.net/history|title=The History of our Mission|website=Mission San Antonio de Padua}}</ref>

In [[Ellicott City, Maryland]], southwest of [[Baltimore]], the Conventual Franciscans of the St. Anthony Province dedicated their old novitiate house as the [[Shrine of St. Anthony (Maryland)|Shrine of St. Anthony]] which since 1 July 2004 serves as the official shrine to Saint Anthony for the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore|Archdiocese of Baltimore]].<ref name="BaltSun">{{cite news |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bs-ho-howard-franciscan-friars-tour-0826-20120823,0,4992929.story |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |access-date=28 August 2012 |title=At Shrine of St. Anthony, a taste of history and a sense of peace |archive-date=6 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606174938/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bs-ho-howard-franciscan-friars-tour-0826-20120823,0,4992929.story |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Portugal, Spain and Brazil ===
[[File:Igreja de Santo Antônio, Teresópolis.jpg|thumb|Santo Antônio (Saint Anthony) Church in [[Teresópolis]], [[Brazil]]]]
[[File:CatedralFrederico.jpg|thumb|Cathedral of the diocese of Santo Antônio, in the municipality of [[Frederico Westphalen]], northwest of the state of [[Rio Grande do Sul]], [[Brazil]].]]
Saint Anthony is known in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil as a marriage saint, because legends exist of him reconciling couples. His feast day, 13 June, is Lisbon's municipal holiday, celebrated with parades and marriages. He is one of the saints celebrated in the Brazilian ''[[Festa Junina]]'', along with [[John the Baptist]] and [[Saint Peter]]. The festivities arount him, specifically, is known as the "Trezena de Junho", or thristeen days of june, when devotion to St. Anthony intensifies in the days leading up to his feast. Saint Anthony is patron saint of at least 105 cities through Brazil, in 10 states, being one of the most venerated saints in that country.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-13 |title=Santo Antônio: devoção, missão, milagres e tradições - Vatican News |url=https://www.vaticannews.va/pt/igreja/news/2024-06/dia-de-santo-antonio-renan-dantas-12-junho-2024.html |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.vaticannews.va |language=pt}}</ref> 

He is venerated in Mogán Village in [[Gran Canaria]], where his feast day is celebrated every year with oversized objects carried through the streets for the fiesta. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moganguide.com/Church.html|title=Church of San Antonio El Chico|first=Mogan|last=Media|website=www.moganguide.com}}</ref>

=== The rest of Europe ===
[[File:Paroisse Saint-Antoine de Padoue in Wavre, Belgium (DSCF7546).jpg|thumb|Saint-Antoine de Padoue parish in Wavre, Belgium]]

In [[Albania]], the [[Franciscans]] arrived in 1240 spreading the word of Saint Anthony ''(Shna Ndou)''. The [[St. Anthony Church, Laç]] ({{langx|sq|Kisha e Shna Ndout or Kisha e Laçit}}) in [[Laç]] was built in his honor.<ref name="Merlika">{{cite news |last1=Merlika |first1=Eugjen |title=Historia e Kishës së Laçit! Shenjti portugez i shqiptarëve |url=http://www.mapo.al/historia-e-kishes-se-lacit-shenjti-portugez-i-shqiptareve/ |access-date=9 November 2018 |agency=Mapo |date=13 June 2015}}</ref> Saint Anthony is one of the most important saints amongst Albanians and the pilgrimage to his church is done yearly by a considerable number of Eastern Orthodox and Muslim Albanians as well.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 May 2022 |title=Shna Ndou, vendi i shenjtë që i pranon të gjithë mëkatarët – Gazeta Fjala |url=https://fjala.al/2022/05/04/shna-ndou-vendi-i-shenjte-qe-i-pranon-te-gjithe-mekataret/ |access-date=17 April 2023 |website=fjala.al |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://storymaps.com/stories/5626ec514b36406897e06c829aa37d9f | title=St. Anthony Pilgrimage – Laç, Albania | date=14 December 2023 }}</ref>

Saint Anthony lived and died during the episcopates of Eastern Orthodox [[Patriarch Mark III of Alexandria]] and [[Patriarch Nicholas I of Alexandria]], both of whom still maintained communion with the Pope of Rome.

In the town of [[Brusciano]], Italy, located near Naples, an annual feast in honor of Saint Anthony is held in late August. This tradition dates back to 1875. The tradition started when a man prayed to Saint Anthony for his sick son to get better. He vowed that if his son would become healthy he would build and dance a ''giglio'' like the people of Nola do for their patron San Paolino during the annual Fest Dei Gigli. (A ''giglio'' is a tall tower topped with a statue of the saint that is carried through the streets in carefully choreographed maneuvers that resemble a dance.) The celebration has grown over the years to include six giglio towers built in honor of the saint. This tradition has also carried over to America, specifically the [[East Harlem]] area of New York, where the immigrants from the town of Brusciano formed the [[Giglio Society of East Harlem]] and have been holding their annual feast since the early 1900s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/parishioners-hoist-tower-dance-giglio-festival-article-1.1896070|title=Parishioners will hoist nearly 4-ton wooden tower during Dance of the Giglio Festival|first=Frank|last=Green|website=New York Daily News|date=7 August 2014 }}</ref>

In [[Poland]], he is the patron saint of [[Przeworsk]]. The [[icon]] of Saint Anthony, dating from 1649, is housed in a local Franciscan church, {{Interlanguage link|Kaplica Świętego Antoniego w Przeworsku|pl}}.

=== Asia ===
Saint Anthony is honored in [[Uvari]], in [[Tamil Nadu]], India, where legend holds that the crew of a Portuguese ship was cured of cholera through the intercession of St. Anthony. The local church is dedicated to St. Anthony and houses an ancient wooden statue believed to have been carved by one of the crew.{{sfn|Raj|2017|p=}} In Kerala, where Vasco da Gama had landed in 1498 and where the Portuguese had their first stations in India some of the most ancient churches were renamed after St. Antony and new churches were dedicated to him.

In the [[Philippines]], the devotion to St. Anthony of Padua began in 1581, in the town of [[Pila, Laguna]], where Franciscans established the first church in the country dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, now elevated as the [[Pila Church|National Shrine of St. Anthony of Padua]] under the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo|Diocese of San Pablo]].

In [[Siolim]], a village in the Indian state of [[Goa]], St. Anthony is always shown holding a serpent on a stick. This is a depiction of the incident which occurred during the construction of the church wherein a snake was disrupting construction work. The people turned to St. Anthony for help and placed his statue at the construction site. The next morning, the snake was found caught in the cord placed in the statue's hand.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goancommunity.com/2012/06/06/siolim-the-village-everyone-loves/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111224658/http://www.goancommunity.com/2012/06/06/siolim-the-village-everyone-loves/ |url-status = dead|archive-date=11 January 2014 |title=Siolim The Village Everyone Loves {{!}} St.Mary's Goan Community Dubai |date=6 June 2012}}</ref>

[[St. Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade]], located in [[Sri Lanka]], is dedicated to the saint. The church is designated a national shrine<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.christian.gov.lk/ImportantChurches_Kochikade.html | title = St. Anthony's – Kochchikade | website = christian.gov.lk | publisher = Ministry of Christian Affairs Sri Lanka | access-date = 30 April 2019 | archive-date = 18 June 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170618111604/http://www.christian.gov.lk/ImportantChurches_Kochikade.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> and minor basilica.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/data/shrineLKX.htm | title = National Shrines in Sri Lanka, Maldives | website = GCatholic.org |access-date=23 April 2019}}</ref> A tiny piece of St. Anthony's tongue is said to be preserved in a special reliquary, which is located in a glass case together with a statue of the saint, at the entrance to the church.

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File:St. Anthony of Padua.jpg|St. Anthony of Padua in St. Joseph's Church, [[Macao]]
File:JC Pila 57.JPG|[[Pila Church|National Shrine of St. Anthony of Padua]], [[Pila, Laguna]], [[Philippines]] where Franciscans established the first church in the country dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua under the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo|Diocese of San Pablo]]
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=== Africa ===
[[Antonianism]] ({{langx|pt|antonianismo}}) was a [[syncretic]] [[Kongo people|Bakongo]] [[Catholic|Catholic movement]] formed in the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] between 1704 and 1708 as a development out of the [[Roman Catholic Church in Kongo]], yet without denying the authority of the [[Pope]]. Its founder was a young charismatic woman named [[Kimpa Vita|Beatriz Kimpa Vita]] who said she was possessed by Saint Anthony of Padua.{{sfn | Stearns | 2001 | p=394}}{{sfn | Thornton| 1998 | p=}} Beatriz became known for healing and other miracles. It was eventually suppressed by King [[Pedro IV of Kongo]], and Dona Beatriz was burned at the stake as a heretic.{{sfn|Wessinger|2011|p=391}}