The Saint Who Finds What Is Lost: An Invitation
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The walnut tree stood at the edge of Count Tiso's estate at Camposampiero, its branches thick enough by June to hold a small wooden cell built high above the ground, away from the roads where crowds gathered every hour of the day to catch a glimpse of the little friar who could see into a soul the way other men read a psalter. He had asked for this — for silence, for height, for leaves between himself and the world. He was dying, though no one had said the word yet, and he wanted what little time remained to belong to prayer alone. It was night. The kind of soft, close June night that settles over the Veneto like a held breath, when the air smells of cut hay and the Brenta canal moves slow and dark past the fields. Count Tiso, whose devotion to the friar had grown into something between friendship and reverence, could not sleep. He rose in the dark and walked out toward the walnut tree, meaning only to look, to be near the place where the holy man kept his vigil.
9 movements, carrying the whole life of Saint Anthony of Padua from beginning to enduring memory.
- The Child Who Came to Camposampiero
- Fernando of Lisbon
- The Five Heads and the Habit He Asked For
- The Hidden Years and the Voice No One Expected
- Tongue of Fire: The Great Preaching
- Doctor Evangelicus: What He Actually Taught
- The Burden and the Evening at Arcella
- Il Santo: The Saint Who Never Left
- The Doorway: Going Deeper with Il Santo
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