Daniele liotti biography sample

SAINT ANTHONY is the most popular saint in Christianity. There are people devoted to him all over the world, even Hindus and Muslims pray to him. His shrine in Padua is the third most-visited place of pilgrimage in the world, after Lourdes in France and Our Lady of Guadeloupe in Mexico, yet strangely enough his exciting story is not very well-known.

Fictionalising Anthony

Lux Vide has thus produced a film for television with the intention of introducing people to this thirteenth century Portuguese nobleman who, contrary to his father's wishes, decided to enter the priesthood at Coimbra. When the remains of the missionary martyrs of the new Franciscan Order were brought there for burial in 1220, Anthony was inspired to follow their example; he became a Franciscan friar and sailed for North Africa. Forced to return to Europe due to ill health, he arrived in Italy in 1221 and was assigned to the province of Romagna, a region in which heretical groups were very active. Anthony's exceptional skills as a preacher and a scholar quickly brought him into prominence, and he was granted permission by Saint Francis to teach theology to the friars. Numerous miracles are attributed to him and he brought many sinners back to God though his preaching, prayer and g

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