The friars began praying every day in a “perpetual novena” before the statue, a spot known today as “St. Anthony’s corner.” They dedicate their prayers to the petitions they receive from the faithful.

A mosaic of St. Anthony of Padua, whose feast day is June 13, is seen on the grounds of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America in Washington. Pope Francis asked that the world’s ...

The June 13 feast of St. Anthony of Padua and the novena, the nine days of prayer leading up to it, mark some of the busiest times at Washington's Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America -- ...