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Anthony of Padua, OFM, (Portuguese: António/Antônio de Pádua; Italian: Antonio di/da Padova; Latin: Antonius Patavinus) or Anthony of Lisbon (Portuguese: António/Antônio de Lisboa; Italian: Antonio da/di Lisbona; Latin: Antonius Olisiponensis; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) [1] [2] was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.
Around 1918, Franciscan Father Étienne Benoît reprinted the "Prayer for Peace" in French, without attribution, on the back of a mass-produced holy card depicting his Order's founder, the inspirational peacemaker from the Crusades era, Saint Francis of Assisi. [1] The prayer was circulating in the United States by January 1927, when its first ...
The image of Our Lady of Consolation and Cincture in the San Agustin Church, Intramuros. In 1607, the Confraternity of the Cofradia de la Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa was founded in Intramuros, Manila being one of the oldest Marian confraternities in the country. The image survived the Second World War being hidden for safekeeping ...
Johannes Jørgensen, St. Francis of Assisi: A Biography (translated by T. O’Conor Sloane; Longmans, 1912). Arnaldo Fortini, Francis of Assisi (translated by Helen Moak, Crossroad, 1981). Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis (Ο Φτωχούλης του Θεού, in Greek; 1954) John Moorman, St. Francis of Assisi (SPCK, 1963)
Orthodox images more often contained inscriptions with the names of saints, so the Eastern repertoire of attributes is generally smaller than the Western. [c] Many of the most prominent saints, like Saint Peter and Saint John the Evangelist can also be recognised by a distinctive facial type.
Saint Anthony of Egypt wearing the Antonine cloak in a 1460s woodcut One of the Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony wearing his religious habit Autograph letter of Francis of Assisi The Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony , known as the Antonines, were a Catholic religious order of the Latin Church founded at the end of the 11th century.
In November 1874, it was discovered that thieves had cut out the portion depicting Saint Anthony. Then, in January 1875, a Spanish immigrant attempted to sell the same fragment to a New York City art gallery. The man stated it was a complete original by Murillo, Saint Anthony being one of the artist's favorite subjects.
An idea of their daily routine can be gleaned from an anchoritic rule. The most widely known today is the early 13th-century text known as Ancrene Wisse. [19] Another, less widely known, example is the rule known as De Institutione Inclusarum written in the 12th century, around 1160–1162, by Aelred of Rievaulx for his sister. [20]