For Catholics in Goa, Saint Anthony of Padua is the saint for all their needs. Many devotees of the 13th-century Franciscan saint and Doctor of the Church, born in Portugal, seek his help to retrieve ...
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.