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SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA Go gle Originalfrom UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Originalfrom UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA Go gle Originalfrom UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA To Father Jerome Hesse (or—is it Assisi?) Originalfrom Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Anthony Saint Padua of HIS LIFE AND MIRACLES by Mabel Farnum Preface by Fr. Raphael M. Huber, O. F. M. Cony. Associate Professor of Church History Catholic University of America DIDIER New York Originalfrom Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Nihil Obstat: John M. A, Fearns, S. T. D. Censor Ubrorum Imprimatur: Francis Cardinal Spellman tjt Archbishop of New York January 8, 1948 COPYRIGHT, 1948, BY DIDIER, Publishers All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission of the Publishers PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. Google tv unIVers^Tf«ufohnia B 7 o (' "/ ( r i) ACKNOWLEDGMENT In reconstructing the life of St. Anthony of Padua, conspicuous use was made of two monumental works: Antonio di Padova, by Most Reverend Vittorino Fac- chinetti, O.F.M., of Abschadi, Egypt; and A Docu- mented History of the Franciscan Order, 1182-1517, by The Very Reverend Raphael M. Huber, O.F.M., Con- ventual, Associate Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. The Enter St. Anthony by The Reverend Isidore O'Brien, O.F.M., was consulted. Gratitude is expressed for Fr. Raphael Huber's dis- tinguished service in reading the manuscript and sug- gesting certain revisions and additions. Also, I wish to thank the friars of New Mexico, who guided the author over the old Franciscan trails of the Rio Grande, and in- troduced her to the missionary life that St. Anthony of Padua so gloriously illustrated: Father Jerome Hesse, O.F.M., Rector, Sacred Heart Cathedral, Gallup; Fr. Robert Kalt, O.F.M., St. Francis Cathedral, Santa Fe; and Fr. Pax R. Schicker, O.F.M., Secretary to Bishop Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ACKNOWLEDGMENT Espelage, of Gallup. To The Reverend John Forest, New O.F.M., Director, St. Anthony's Guild, Paterson, Jersey, I extend gratitude for his interest in this work and for supplying books for research; as well as to the Reverend Daniel Taglino, St. Rita's Church, Haver- J. hill, Massachusetts, for similar assistance; to Fray An- gelico Chavez, O.F.M., St. Francis Cathedral, Santa F£, New Mexico, bard of the Franciscan Order, for suggest- ing the particular form of the dedication of this book. Certain incidents generally included in the biographies of St. Anthony of Padua are not presented in these pages, since the best modern authorities do not accept them. Among them is the supposed controversy between St. Anthony and Brother Elias Bombarone, of which no record appears in the thirteenth-century biographies of the saint, but which crept into his bibliography at a later period. The author followed the best possible guidance in this matter. N. B. Tradition maintains that St. Anthony was a de- scendant of Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader in the first crusade. Since no other form of the surname was avail- able than the Italian, the full Italian title for Anthony has been carried through the book up to the point where he entered the Order of Friars Minor. Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PREFACE Devotion to St. Anthony of Padua, a love ot nis per- sonality, and the bibliography in his honor have so in- creased from century to century that fifty years ago Pope Leo XIII could style him "not only the saint of Padua, but the saint of the whole world." Like his great spiritual father, St. Francis of Assisi, whose livery he assumed and whose rule he professed, he has become "everybody's saint." No wonder, then, that literature concerning his life, sanctity, activities, miracles, and learning has been in constant demand by his ardent admirers throughout the world. The recent elevation of St. Anthony to the rank of a Doctor of the Church Universal by our present gloriously reigning Pope Pius XII, in virtue of the Decree of January 16, 1946, has given fresh impetus to renewed studies, biographies, and the publication of source ma- terial concerning his life. In the life of every public hero, saint or soldier, artist or statesman, inventor or scholar, many legendary epi- sodes have intertwined themselves with the branches of truth and fact pertaining to his biography. St. Anthony was no exception. The simple story of his life, as recorded by thirteenth-century biographers, has been augmented by folklore, deliberate interpolations to suit party affilia- tion and ambitions, and imaginary occurrences with ab- solutely no regard for time or place, so that only the objective critic, after long research, can eventually sep- arate the grain from the chaff. 7 Originalfrom Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PREFACE Dramatic biography, as differentiated from pure fic- tion, however, is based upon historical fact, upon living personages and real places, although it does allow itself a restrained freedom in secondary matters, such as the elaboration of detail, the description of local color, de- lineation of character, the course of conversation, and the concatenation of events or reaction to circumstances or occurrences. Such a dramatic biography is the present life of St. Anthony of Padua, as presented by the author, Mabel Farnum, of Boston, Massachusetts. Miss Farnum is no stranger to the American reading public. As a steady contributor to leading Catholic period- icals and author of such works as The Wool Merchant of Segovia—The Life of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez; Street of the Half-Moon—The Life of St. Peter Clover; The Sacred Scimitar—The Life of St. John de Brito; A Carrack Sailed Away; the Voyage of Master Francis Xavier, and The Seven Golden Cities—The Story of Fray Marcos of Nizza and Coronado's expedition, she has endeared herself to her many readers. Even while awaiting the publication of her latest study, American Saint, a biography of Mother Cabrini for young people, she has immersed herself, at the suggestion of Dr. Cardozo, of the Catholic University, in a research study on the life and biographies of St. Anthony of Padua, her latest venture. With a deep sense of fidelity to fact, she has striven to reconstruct the places and spots in which the saint worked; to bring to life the people with whom he conversed; and to describe the scenes of his activities as though she had been an actual spec- tator. From a preview, I feel that she has lived up to her reputation for accuracy as portrayed in her other literary productions; and I feel that this work will, therefore, merit the same public acclaim, especially among those of her readers who do not understand Italian, Spanish, Por- tuguese or French, and who, accordingly, do not have Original from UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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