This Friday, June 13, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, sent a warm message to the faithful about the festival of San Antonio de Padua, one of the most popular saints of the Catholic calendar, recognized for its multiple miracles.
“I regret telling it, but it is Friday 13. But do not be scared, because on June 13 it is the feast of one of the most powerful and popular saints of the Catholic calendar: San Antonio de Padua!” Said Cardinal Dollan in a Message posted in Xreferring to this date that many people consider “bad luck.”
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I hate to tell you – it’s Friday the 13th. But you don’t have to be scared, because June 13thhappens to be the feast of one of the most powerful, popular saints in the Catholic calendar: St. Anthony of Padua! Known as a worker of miracles even in his lifetime, he was a tremendous… pic.twitter.com/24PQdP7mtl
— Cardinal Dolan (@CardinalDolan) June 13, 2025
“Known as a maker of miracles, even in life, it was a great confessor, of deep compassion for vulnerable and a man of intense mystical prayer. Happy feast of San Antonio to all!” He added.
The purple recalled that we all know San Antonio, in particular, for looking for his intercession in so many difficult moments, specifically when we have lost something. “But he is powerful in so many other spaces,” he says.
“You know it: it was one of the greatest priests and missionaries that the Church has had, recognized as a man who worked miracles, a tremendous confessor, of deep compassion for the poor, the sick, the weak and the vulnerable, as well as a man of intense and mystical recollection in the prayer,” said the cardinal.
“Happy San Antonio party to all, do not miss it,” concluded Cardinal Dolan, thus encouraging the faithful to stop being afraid on Friday 13.
San Antonio de Padua (1195-1231) was a Franciscan and theologian priest who lived most of his life in Italy, where he reached a huge fame as a preacher, confessor and man of prayer. Endowed with a prodigious memory and great knowledge of the Bible, attracted crowds and touched the hearts of many.
It is also invoked as a patron of lost causes, of the poor and those who need to find something lost. He was canonized just one year after he died, in 1232, he was proclaimed Doctor of the Church in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
Diego López Marina
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