400,000 annual prayer requests The story of their devotion to St. Anthony starts in 1912 when they had just finished installing a statue of the saint in their St. Francis Chapel.

Vatican City, Feb 10, 2010 / 09:53 am In Wednesday's General Audience, Pope Benedict XVI spoke on the life and history of “one of the most popular saints of the Catholic Church,” St. Anthony ...

What are you going to do? Well, pray to Saint Anthony, of course! St. Anthony of Padua, whose feast is celebrated June 13, was a Catholic priest and Franciscan friar who lived from 1195 to 1231.

“Then you need to say the St. Anthony prayer to find it,” suggested a Catholic friend. “Dear St. Anthony, please come around, Francis’ head is lost and cannot be found.