The Most Holy Trinity & Saint Anthony of Padua

June 12, 2022 (Sunday of the Most Holy Trinity), June 13, 2022 St. Anthony of Padua

Anthony of Padua

Anthony was born in the city of Lisbon around the year 1195. He first entered the Augustinian order and later became one of the first disciples of St. Francis. He lived a holy life and was noted for his preaching, teaching and writings. He died at the age of thirty-six on the 13th of June in the year 1231. Since he passed his later years of his life in the city of Padua, the name of this city was attached to his name. Devotion of Saint Anthony was brought to Lebanon by the Franciscan missionaries in the fifteenth century.

May his prayers be with us. Amen.

From the Synaxarion for the Maronite Divine Office