St. Anthony’s Relics Visit South Carolina (USA) 2018

From April 6th. to 15th., 2018, two precious relics of Saint Anthony from the Basilica in Padua will visit the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Fr. Maistrello, a friar from the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, Italy, will be Saint Anthony's companion during this journey. The relics will tour throughout the State and will touch the following deaneries: Aiken, Beaufort, Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach and Rock Hill.
One of these reliquaries contains the Saint’s floating rib. This is the very same reliquary had been kissed by Sister Lucia of Fatima when it was taken to the nuns at the Monastery of Carmelite sisters in Coimbra, Portugal, in January 1995, during the commemorations for the 800th anniversary of St. Anthony's birth. 
Please join with all for reflection and prayer in unity and celebration. Be assured that your spirit will be elevated and your personal devotion will be enhanced. Together, all will reinforce the bond which unifies us as Saint Anthony’s family. Peace and all good~

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Say A Prayer To St. Anthony

I had just thanked St. Anthony for his intercession in a situation a few years ago, when I discovered your blog, so I thought I might share it:

My wife and I had just moved to a new apartment, and many of our non-essential clothing items were still packed in boxes or bags in a closet. We were to attend an event, and she owned only one particular sweater that was compatible with her dress. I found her in a frenzy, amid a pile of displaced clothing in a closet, desperately searching for a sweater that we may have lost. In an attempt to calm her, and knowing full well that I've never found anything she couldn't, I asked to trade places, which we did. While digging through the same pile, although not precisely knowing what to look for, the words of my fifth grade teacher, Sr. Mary Potter, flashed in my mind, the words we'd hear if we'd lost so much as a pencil: "Say a prayer to St. Anthony." Which is exactly what I said in this situation. Now, my wife didn't know much about the Catholic faith until she married me, but she is a very faithful person, and prayed as I instructed her, very briefly. When she finished, I was holding her sweater in front of her. "See how that works?", I asked with a proudish laugh, but I'm sure I was more astonished than she was! She'd pulled out every article item by item, and I'd tossed through each pile at least twice. At the very moment we'd each invoked St. Anthony's name, I was up to my elbow, and pinched a corner of fabric at the bottom. As my wife was praying to him for the first time, I was pulling out the lost item, and had it before she was done!
This was a missing sweater. It wasn't a lost pet, lost child, or a lost pencil in Sr. Mary Potter's class, but it was my wife's first true introduction to the intercession of saints, and for that, and so much more, I thank St. Anthony! (I just wanted to share. Glad I found your blog, and I look forward to following. St. Anthony, pray for us!)

Thank you so much S.D. for sharing your wonderful story of how St. Anthony helped you and your wife find - a lost object, and the beginning of faith in St. Anthony's intercession. St. Anthony is still evangelizing people with answered prayers, with the help of those who know of his intercession and are willing to teach others about it~
Have a St. Anthony story of your own to share? Email it to us and we will post it on our blog~

St. Anthony Does Wonders

St. Anthony does wonders and I am really grateful to have him as my patron saint. I have lost things in the past and he has helped me to find it. Ten days ago we noticed an important document of my son's missing. I have been praying to St. Anthony. Finally my husband and I decided to apply for a duplicate document since we were running out of time, but I still knew that he will help me. There were so many formalities required for a duplicate document. So I very fervently prayed last evening and requested him to pleeease help me. Last night after dinner when I went to my son's room, my eyes fell on a box of his last years text books and I said, "yes, it should be in that box, I have searched every other place." I said a last prayer to St. Anthony that the document should be in the box. I took out everything from the box and was disappointed that I did not find it, then put back each book carefully and to my great excitement, it was there. I am so thrilled and going to give thanks to him personally today. To my good luck, his relic is in my city Bangalore in India. Thank you once again St. Anthony. Yours in Christ Jesus.

Thank you A.A. for your story of St. Anthony's help in finding your son's document. So often St. Anthony comes through to help, just in the nick of time. Do you have a St. Anthony story of your own to share? Email it to us and we will post your story on our blog~