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St. Anthony of Padua

St. Anthony of Padua is one of the Catholic Church’s most popular saints. Saint Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost and stolen articles, was a powerful Franciscan preacher and teacher. He’s typically portrayed holding the child Jesus—or a lily—or a book—or all three—in his arms.

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The Shrine

“Mt. Airy” is the familiar name for the National Shrine of St. Anthony and Friary sitting on a hill above Cincinnati. The shrine had its start in the late 1880s, when Joseph and Elizabeth Nurre bought what was then a country estate for $18,000 and gave it to the Franciscan friars.

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About the Friars

The 130 friars of St. John the Baptist Province (SJB) are members of the Order of Friars Minor. We are a Franciscan brotherhood inspired by the 13th-century example of St. Francis of Assisi. We serve the Catholic Church as brothers and priests in a communal life of poverty, prayer, and service to others.

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Prayer Requests

Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
Dear Lord please rescue us
anonymous
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
Dear Lord, I raise Father Peter who earlier this week was welcomed into Your Kingdom. He was not only an amazing man and priest but he was by far the holiest person I ever had an opportunity to meet. When he presided over mass and consecrated the bread and wine, I absolutely felt that I was in presence of Jesus. Please help heal his family and friends in this difficult time. Amen
Steven
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
for the prayers & petitions of everyone posting here Amen
anonymous
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
For my family, friends & special intentions. Prayers for continued healing, recovery & good health for my brother, sisters & myself. Prayers for the right new job. To obtain the resources I need to bring everything together & keep it together. To obtain the resources I need to buy my family home outright & offer my siblings their share. To live a good long, happy, healthy, prosperous & safe Catholic life there. To live well, but within my/our means & by the Lord's will to perhaps share a true love with a good woman at this later time in my life. Thank You for everything Lord. Amen. For Wendy K. Prayers for any treatments & procedures. Lord, please guide the doctor's hand so that she receives good & routine results from any tests & subsequent procedures, a swift recovery, return to good health, with many more years of continued good health. Thank You for everything Lord. Amen
anonymous
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
Saint Lawrence of Brindisi; pray for me.
Theodore
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
You are my help, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy. My soul clings fast to you; your right hand upholds me.
Theodore
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
I had hardly left them when I found him whom my heart loves.
Theodore
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
Dear Lord, please forgive me but I hate this job. The people are condescending, demeaning & dismissive game players; the atmosphere & culture are oppressive & toxic. Not to mention it's low paying for the role. I pray deliverance from it to something well paying, with a short commute, having good people with a culture that’s nurturing is much more conducive to growth & is well suited to the talents You have blessed me with. Thank You for everything. Amen
anonymous
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
Please pray for my relatives in purgatory, my family, me and my job situation. And for others who need help especially A, S, E, K and J. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God have mercy on me a sinner.
B
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
My parents and sister order me any thing I have to do but if I ask them any thing they will never do I return that always hurted me. So I want a husband who will sincerely live and care for me I was so happy because it was only his decision to marry me because he came alone to see me but after marriage he became a different person torturing me never loving nor helping me always demanding such a painful man in my life his mind a negative dirty perverted filthy so much of dirt not even a little light where god can stay .Now in our lives his darkness controls us .please lord do a miracle.
Ancy
Wednesday Jul, 22, 2026
Please pray that my family lives long, happy, healthy lives. Please pray that my son does well driving, no tickets or wrecks and that he improves socially and becomes happy. Please pray my youngest does better in school. Please pray that I quickly learn how to do this job. I am lost with it; please let the lady who had the position help me. Please let pray I learn fast and am successful. It is giving me very bad anxiety.
H
Tuesday Jul, 21, 2026
Applying to Turkish airlines for a remote job need every prayer
Raphael
Tuesday Jul, 21, 2026
Take care of us
Linus
Tuesday Jul, 21, 2026
Please have Calla plumbing call me so they will come out and check gas pipes and get things done up to code on.my house. Pray I dont need new stove and new water heater. Please pray my granddaughter Devin is able to to get a MD to write her a refence letter for Medical school. In Jesus's name Amen
Norma
Tuesday Jul, 21, 2026
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most mysterious and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in heaven on earth and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar.
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