After the visit and Holy Mass in the Basilica of Loreto, is advisable to visit Padua and the Basilica of Saint Antony. The recommended way is to take the A14 motorway direction North.Take the exit onto A13 toward Padua/Bologna Arcoveggio, than Take exit 8 toward Padua Sud (partial toll road) and follow the road SS16. From here follow the directions to Padua. The Shrine stay in Square of Saint, 11 (Piazza del Santo, 11). It takes about 3 hours and 15 minutes Have a nice trip!
St Antonio from Padua
Born in Lisbon in 1195 by a noble and powerful family, was brought up (only 6 years) to the clergy of the cathedral to be educated in the "sacred letters". He spent two years in the monastery of Sao Vicente, tormented by the visit of ex-friends superficial and vicious. Then he moved to Coimbra, where he spent 8 years of intense application to study sacred. He was ordained a priest in Santa Cruz, was 25 years. Following the death of 5 Franciscan martyrs killed in Marrakesh (1220), he felt impelled 's ideal of martyrdom. He managed to Olivais (a hermitage not far) to get permission to go to Morocco, and received the name of Antonio to elude the search for their parents, very much against. Was the 'autumn of 1220. An illness forced him to get back into the sea, where-due to bad weather-was forced to retreat in Sicily. He spent a couple of months in Messina, then departed on foot to Assisi for the general chapter (the fraternal assembly), 1-8 June 1221. In brief, it became the most important theologian that 'Order had, and was instructed to go to France to face the current heresy that was spreading in Provence. Here completed his first miracles. On his return to Italy, Anthony was named "provincial minister" of all the Franciscans in northern Italy. Task of the "provincial" is the 'spiritual animation of his brothers. Arrived in Padua, he found time to collect and put together the material that constitutes his greatest work: the Sunday sermon. Took first in the history of Catholicism the 'innovation to weave a sermon a day, no churches or squares were sufficient, had to move to the countryside to accommodate the increasingly large and enthusiastic crowd He went to Assisi (May 1230), for the general chapter, where he resigned from his post for health reasons. Back in Padua, he spent the last 25 days in 'hermitage Camposanpiero. Died June 13, 1231, in the monastery of Poor Clares at 'Arcella, was 36 years. On May 30, 1232 in the cathedral of Spoleto Gregory IX officiated the canonization of St. Antonio. Shortly after beginning the construction of the shrine. April 8, 1263 carrying the coffin into the new basilica, it was discovered that the language had remained uncorrupted.
St. Antonio from Padua
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