Tongue of Fire
He Preached to Thirty Thousand People in an Open Field, and They Wept, Converted, and Came Back for More. What turns a young man from a noble Portuguese family into the most beloved saint in Franciscan history? What gives a friar's voice such power that heretics fall silent, fish rise to the surface to listen, and a mule, hungry and exhausted, kneels before the Blessed Sacrament instead of its feed?
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Tongue of Fire answers those questions not with dry hagiography, but with living, breathing encounter. This is the story of Saint Anthony of Padua, Il Santo, told warmly from within the Catholic faith, for all who already love him and for all who are about to. Drawing on Anthony's own surviving sermons and the oldest testimonies the tradition preserves, this devotional account places you shoulder-to-shoulder with the medieval crowds who traveled days on foot just to hear him preach. You will feel the heat of those open-air gatherings. You will understand why Francis of Assisi called this man his bishop . And you will come away knowing that the friar millions call upon to find lost keys was, first and above all, a Tongue of Fire, a preacher, a theologian, and a mercy-bearer whose ministry still burns.
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Lives that walk beside Saint Anthony of Padua, chosen for their likeness, not their fame.
