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A Rich Young Man

A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Anthony of Padua
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A Rich Young Man
A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Anthony of Padua
by John Edward Beahn

St. Anthony of Padua has been a friend to millions of Catholics asking his help to recover lost objects. But few seem to know much about his remarkable life. The son of a knight in the court of Portugal's king, he renounced his heritage of wealth and power to become a Franciscan priest. In the years to come, he earned international fame as a preacher, reformer, miracle worker, champion of the poor, and Doctor of the Church.

The tale unfolds in the epic setting of medieval Europe of the thirteenth century. Monarchs, courtiers, churchmen, knights, nobles and serfs manoeuver like chess pieces in an elaborate game of alliances and conflicts between Church and state, Christian and Muslim, Catholic and heretic. Anthony's story takes us from North Africa where divine providence saved the young friar from his mistaken zeal for martyrdom to Italy and France, where his extraordinary gifts and heroic passion for God blazed a path to the rescue and conversion of countless souls.

This novel paints a rich, fascinating portrait of an astonishing saint who turned the medieval Christian world upside down.

Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 348 pages
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