appealed to by devout clients for finding lost objects.
The meagre accounts of his life which we possess have been supplemented
by numerous popular legends, which represent him as a continuous worker
of miracles, and describe his marvellous eloquence by pictures of fishes
leaping out of the water to hear him. There are many confraternities
established in his honour throughout Christendom, and the number of
"pious" biographies devoted to him would fill many volumes.
The most trustworthy modern works are by A. Lepitre, _St Antoine de
Padoue_ (Paris, 1902, in _Les Saints_ series: good bibliography; Eng.
trans. by Edith Guest, London, 1902), and by Leopold de Cherance, _St
Antoine de Padoue_ (Paris, 1895; Eng. trans., London, 1896). His
works, consisting of sermons and a mystical commentary on the Bible,
were published in an appendix to those of St Francis, in the _Annales
Minorum_ of Luke Wadding (Antwerp, 1623), and are also reproduced by
Horoy, _Medii aevi bibliotheca patristica_ (1880, vi. pp. 555 et
sqq.); see art. "Antonius von Padua" in Herzog-Hauck,
_Realencyklopadie_.
ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906), American reformer, was born at
Adams, Massachusetts, on the 15th of February 1820, the daughter of
Quakers. Soon after her birth, her family moved to the state of New
York, and after 1845 she lived in Rochester. She received her early
education in a school maintained by her father for his own and
neighbours' children, and from the time she was seventeen until she was
thirty-two she taught in various schools. In the decade preceding the
outbreak of the Civil War she took a prominent part in the anti-slavery
and temperance movements in New York, organizing in 1852 the first
woman's state temperance society in America, and in 1856 becoming the
agent for New York state of the American Anti-slavery Society. After
1854 she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for woman's
rights, and became recognized as one of the ablest and most zealous
advocates, both as a public speaker and as a writer, of the complete
legal equality of the two sexes. From 1868 to 1870 she was the
proprietor of a weekly paper, _The Revolution_, published in New York,
edited by Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and having for its motto, "The
true republic--men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights
and nothing less." She was vice-president-at-large of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association from the
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