FRANCIS - ANTHONY - CLARE 

Anthony

We are a Catholic Chaplaincy community on the north shore of Montreal, Quebec.  

We are within  District 01 Canada in the Interdenominational Assembly of Churches Ministry Association and affiliates in Africa, America and Asia.

All who have an open mind and an honest heart are welcome. We don't discriminate based on race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation or identification, ethnicity, or disability. Our seven sacraments, including the Holy Orders, are available to all baptized.

We carry on the mission of Christ by expressing our faith publicly. In communion with other Christian denominations proclaiming the Good News. With God's help and our Archbishop's blessing, we like to spread joy and happiness among our brothers and sisters.

Love and Pace.

Saint Anthony's Quote: "Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach, and your actions speak.

Anthony's fame spread through Portuguese evangelization, and he has been known as the most celebrated of Francis of Assisi's followers. He is the patron saint of Lisbon, Padua, and many places in Portugal and the countries of the former Portuguese Empire.

He is especially invoked and venerated worldwide as the patron saint of the recovery of lost items and is credited with many miracles involving lost people, things, and even spiritual goods.

St. Anthony's Chaplets help devotees meditate on the saint's thirteen virtues. Some of these chaplets were used by members of confraternities that had Anthony as their patron saint. 

North America 

In 1692, Spanish missionaries came across a small Payaya Indian community along what was then known as the Yanaguana River on the feast day of Saint Anthony, 13 June. The Franciscan chaplain, Father Damien Massanet, with agreement from General Domingo de Teran, renamed the rivers in his honour and eventually built a mission nearby. This mission became the focal point of a small community that grew in size and scope to become the seventh-largest city in the country, the U.S. city of San Antonio, Texas. 

In New York City, the Shrine Church of St. Anthony in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, celebrates his feast day. It starts with the traditional novena of prayers asking for his intercession on the 13 Tuesdays preceding his feast. This culminates with a week-long series of services and a street fair. A traditional Italian-style procession is held that day through the streets of its South Village neighbourhood, during which a relic of the saint is carried for veneration.

Each year, on the weekend of the last Sunday in August, Boston's North End holds a feast in honour of Saint Anthony. Referred to as the "Feast of All Feasts," Saint Anthony's Feast in Boston's North End was begun in 1919 by Italian immigrants from Montefalcione, a small town near Naples, where the tradition of honouring Saint Anthony goes back to 1688.

Each year, the Sandia Pueblo and Santa Clara Pueblo celebrate Saint Anthony's feast day with traditional Native American dances. On 27 January 1907, in Beaumont, Texas, a church was dedicated and named in honour of Saint Anthony. The church was later designated a cathedral in 1966 with the formation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont but was not formally consecrated. On 28 April 1974, St. Anthony Cathedral was dedicated and consecrated by Bishop Warren Boudreaux. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI granted the cathedral the designation of a minor basilica. St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica celebrated its 100th anniversary on 28 January 2007.

St. Anthony gave his name to Mission San Antonio de Padua, the third Franciscan mission dedicated along El Camino Real in California in 1771. In Ellicott City, Maryland, southwest of Baltimore, the Conventual Franciscans of the St. Anthony Province dedicated their old novitiate house as the Shrine of St. Anthony, which has served as the official shrine to Saint Anthony for the Archdiocese of Baltimore since 1 July 2004.