Credit: Anthony Johnson/EWTN St. Anthony was known in his own day as the “Hammer of Heretics” due to the powerful witness ... live a life of asceticism and prayer. Lisbon’s Church of ...

(Image courtesy of the Conventual Franciscan Friars) Born in a Catholic family in Northeast Philadelphia, I learned the prayer to St. Anthony like I learned the Pledge of Allegiance. I was notorious ...

The friars recognize the shrine — a dream of Wattson’s — as the largest outdoor shrine of St. Anthony in the United States. Dedicated in 1960, the shrine located on the friars’ 400-acre ...

Every day those devoted to St. Anthony invoke the intercession of the saint through a particular prayer, the Tredicina ... which conquers the temptation of power, the temptation of pride, the ...