Tony Tony Turn Around

Something's Lost and Can't Be Found

(Like my heart)

Saint Anthony lies in state in Padua Italy in a glass case. His tongue is preserved- and didn't disintegrate over the centuries-because he was such an eloquent mouthpiece for Christ.

http://www.h2onews.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=224444232

A relic of Saint Anthony is also- fun fact- found in Saint Matthews Cathedral here in Washington and it is venerated after the 5:30 pm Mass every Tuesday. Bet you didn't know that didja.

Here is another fun fact I bet you didn't know.

Saint Anthony is considered one of the great Saint Lobbyists (maybe actually the only one)- he tired of seeing women whose bread-winner husbands were in jail suffering trying to feed their children and selling their bodies and souls to feed their kids- so he organized the franciscan friars around Padua and put them all to work in the building trades to pay off the loan sharks to get them off the backs (literally and figuratively) of these women. Then he went further and lobbied to change the law in the local provincial legislature so that usery or loan sharking would be outlawed and no one could ever be put in jail for debts abolishing debtors prisons in Padua.
This was at the time for the day revolutionary and one of the (if not the) first known town to abolish debtors prisons in the middle ages.

So if you want the laws changed- pray to Saint Anthony- and visit his relics at Saint Matthews or in Padua.