Did you know he traveled and preached throughout France ?
He is famous for leaving his tongue in the cathedral in Padua where he did most of his teaching. (not on purpose- they kept it when he died as it was incorrupt due to his eloquence and brilliance in teaching)- While he is called St. Anthony of Padua he actually is from Lisbon originally and made his way to Italy. He however spent a great deal of time in various places in France preaching. HERE, preached St.Anthony in France
He was considered such a great preacher that St. Francis of Assisi insisted that he preach often for the order.
Here it says he got some of his training in Montpellier.
It pins him living also in Toulouse, Limogues and other areas less familiar from a tourist perspective.
He is often seen holding in images/statues a child because he had a vision of Jesus as a baby.
While he was considered brilliant, he could have pursued being a more aristocratic sort of intellectual cleric of high position, he saw (so goes the story) several Franciscans on their way back from the Holy Land and desired to preach there, even unto martyrdom. God had other plans and other work to do but it was his desire to pursue that particularly Franciscan charism of peace that led him to the order. To this day the Franciscan order tends the Christian Holy Sites in Israel. In Washington, DC the church of the Holy Sepulchre is replicated in all dimensions in the church at the Franciscan Monastery.
How can a true preacher of Jesus, the Prince of Peace be anything other than an advocate for Peace in the Holy Land?
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