St. Anthony of Padua

	Saint and Doctor of the Church
Born	1195 , Lisbon, Portugal
Birth Name	Fernando Martins
Died	13 June 1231 (aged 35) , Padua, Italy
Venerated	In Roman Catholic Church
Canonized	30 May 1232, Spoleto, Italy by Pope Gregory IX, less than one year after his death
Feast Day	13th June
Attribute	Book, bread, Infant Jesus, lily, fish,  flaming heart
Patronage	Lost and stolen articles. He is the patron saint of Padua and many places in Portugal and in the countries of the former Portuguese Empire
Major Shrine	Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, Italy

Fernando Martins was born in Lisbon, Portugal.,his parents were Vicente Martins and Teresa Pais Taveira He first joined the Augustinian Order and then left it and joined the Franciscan Order in 1221, when he was 26 years old. The reason he became a Franciscan was because of the death of the five Franciscan protomartyrs -- St. Bernard, St. Peter, St. Otho, St. Accursius, and St. Adjutus -- who shed their blood for the Catholic Faith in the year 1220, in Morocco, in North Africa, and whose headless and mutilated bodies had been brought to St. Anthony's monastery on their way back for burial. He lived only ten years after joining the Franciscan Order He is called the "hammer of the Heretics He is typically depicted with a book and the Infant Child Jesus, to whom He miraculously appeared, and is commonly referred to today as the "finder of lost articles." Anthony became sick with ergotism, a disease which is now known also under the name "Saint Anthony's Fire", In  1231,  he went to the woodland retreat at Camposampiero with two other friars for a respite. There he lived in a cell built for him under the branches of a walnut tree. Anthony died on the way back to Padua on 13 June 1231 at the Poor Clare monastery at Arcella (now part of Padua), aged 35. In 16th  January 1946 Venerable Pope Pius XII proclaimed Anthony as Doctor of the Church, attributing to him the title Doctor Evangelicus ["Evangelical Doctor"]