Monks, Nuns & Religious

Saints of the cloister and the convent — monks, nuns, friars, hermits, and sisters whose hidden lives of prayer and work shaped the Church.

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St. Anthony of Padua

Doctor of the ChurchJune 13

A gifted Portuguese scholar who hid his learning by washing dishes in a Franciscan hermitage — until one surprise sermon gave him away, and he spent the last nine years of his short life as the most powerful preacher in Europe.