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Pope Francis
has returned to the Father's house

Friday, April 25 – Holy Rosary streamed live via web and social media

HOLY WEEK AND 2025 EASTER

Celebration times in the Basilica

Discover the Basilica of St. Anthony and its cloisters

Visit the Anthonian Museums

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21/04/2025

Pope Francis has returned to the Father's house

In the words of the rector of the Pontifical Basilica of St. Anthony, the condolences of the Franciscan community and of the entire great Antonian family in the world.
Friday, April 25 – Holy Rosary streamed live via web and social media

09/04/2025

Holy Week and 2025 Easter

All the celebration times in the Basilica from 13 April to the Octave of Easter

04/03/2025

“Let us journey together in hope”, the Pope Francis’ Lenten message for 2025

With the rite of Blessing and Imposition of the Ashes, the 40-day period of preparation for Easter begins. In this period Christians are urged to undertake a path of penitence and conversion

25/02/2025

Prayers for Pope Francis from the Saint’s Basilica in Padua

From the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, the prayer for Pope Francis in these days is uniting the community of friars with so many faithful and pilgrims who, in great numbers, entrust the Holy Father to the Lord through the intercession of St.

13/02/2025

“Feast of the Tongue of the Saint” Sunday 16 February in the Basilica of St Anthony

The great participation of devotees in the procession that has been marking, for the past 760 years, the discovery of St Anthony’s Incorrupt tongue is taking place again

23/01/2025

27 January – Holocaust Memorial Day

The friars of the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua remember Venerable Placido Cortese and Saint Maximilian Kolbe, two fellow friars martyred by the Nazis

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