For Catholics in Goa, Saint Anthony of Padua is the saint for all their needs. Many devotees of the 13th-century Franciscan saint and Doctor of the Church, born in Portugal, seek his help to retrieve ...

The friars began praying every day in a “perpetual novena” before the statue, a spot known today as “St. Anthony’s corner.” They dedicate their prayers to the petitions they receive from the faithful.

O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of saints, your love for God and charity for his creatures made you worthy while on earth to possess miraculous powers. Miracles waited your word, which you were ever ...

With her mother in the hospital for the second time in a matter of weeks, Aime O’Donovan felt the understandable need to connect with a higher being. So she reached for her cellphone and tapped out a ...

SPRINGFIELD - A prayer service marking the receiving of the St. Anthony of Padua relic, by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, will be held at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 6, at the Cathedral of St.

The eighth day of the Novena preparatory to the Relic Feast of St Anthony of Padua was observed with solemnity at St Anthony’s Shrine, Milagres on Friday evening, February 13, 2026. The liturgy was ...