St. Anthony of Padua was a Franciscan priest during the thirteenth century. So simple and resounding was his teaching of the Catholic Faith, that the illiterate and the innocent could understand his messages. It is for this reason he was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII in 1946. St. Anthony of Padua is painted as a young Franciscan holding the Christ Child on one arm.

O gentle and loving St Anthony, you whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whispers our prayer into the ears of the Infant Jesus, who loved to linger in your arms. One word from you and our prayer will be granted. O, speak but that word and the gratitude of our heart will ever be yours! Amen.