Repaying St Anthony…

Often I have grand plans of depositing big wads of money into the box marked St Anthony’s Bread which is a shiny black box next to the stat...

St Anthony, my printer-paper white skin and the blusher

“You’re Irish; I know you are because your skin is so white!” This is something that I hear weekly.   I don’t mind having skin that’s white...

I was going to keep quiet about St Anthony finding lipstick…

Isn’t it Shakespeare’s King Lear who declares; ‘vanity thy name be woman’? Well the mad King Lear summed me up; I’m a woman and vain. I’m ...

Of all the soaps in all of London… St Anthony found this one for me…

St Anthony found soap for me? You must think that I’ve lost it. You might think that I’m a Sense and Sensibility short of a whole set of J...

St Anthony finds tea again…

I gazed at the boxes of redbush or rooibus tea in the supermarket, but didn’t pick up a box and moved on. It’s that time of year when expe...

St Anthony's Story

St Anthony finds tea in Spain…

There’s nothing quite as soothing as a cup of ‘black’ tea, which nowadays is much maligned because of its caffeine content and teeth-stainin...

St Anthony, patron of lost things...

What I like about this video is that the narrator speaks very much from the heart, weaving in the factual events of St Anthony’s life in a s...

St Anthony Exhibition…

1:01 minutes into the video, the statue is quite like that in The London Oratory.

Vatican Blogmeet Memoir Part One; Ex-con gets into the Vatican

It’s a sunlit, sizzling hot day in Rome, and the streets around the Vatican throng with John Paul II disciples; their faces are bathed in ...