Tau PublishingSaint Anthony of Padua
According to His Contemporaries
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-763-4
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-902-7
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-903-4
- Pages
- 120
- Size
- 6 × 9 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound, Tau Publishing edition, 2026 (first published 1926)
- Language
- English
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About this book
“O great Anthony, my patron and my friend, help me now and at the hour of my death.” — Ernest Gilliat-Smith
Saint Anthony of Padua is the best-loved of Franciscan saints, and the most buried under legend. In this book, first published in 1926, Ernest Gilliat-Smith sets the marvels of later centuries aside and asks what the people who knew Anthony actually said: his first biographers, the chroniclers Rolandino and Salimbene, and the letters of Pope Gregory IX.
The result is a vivid, often witty and deeply affectionate portrait: the young canon of Lisbon, the failed missionary to Morocco, the unknown friar who astonished Forlì, the great preacher of Padua, and the extraordinary days that followed his death at Arcella.
This edition adds a new Note to This Edition and keeps the frontispiece of the original.
Inside
- Note to This Edition
- Some Preliminary Notes concerning Sources
- Fifteen chapters, from Lisbon and Coimbra to Julian von Speier
- Rhythmus ad Beatissimum Antonium
- Index
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