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Medal of Saint Anthony of Padua: Evangelical Doctor – Hammer of Heretics – Professor of – Miracles – Doctor of the Church. Born:15 August 1195 Lisbon, Portugal – Died: 13 June 1231 (aged 35) , Padua, Italy – Venerated: in Catholic Church – Beatified: 30 May 1232 – Canonized: 30 May 1232, Spoleto, Italy by Pope Gregory IX Major shrine: Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, Italy – Feast: 13 June Attributes:Book; bread; Infant Jesus; lily; fish; flaming heart; mule Patronage: Lisbon, Lost items, lost people, lost souls, American Indians; amputees; animals; barrenness; Brazil; elderly people; faith in the Blessed Sacrament; fishermen; Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land; harvests; horses; lower animals; mail; mariners; oppressed people; poor people; Portugal; pregnant women; shipwrecks; starvation; sterility; swineherds; Tigua Indians; travel hostesses; travellers; Tuburan, Cebu; San Vicente, Sulat, Eastern Samar; Watermen; runts of litters; counter-revolutionaries; Pila, Laguna, Taytay, Rizal; Iriga, Camarines Sur; Camaligan, Camarines Sur