Thanks to St. Anthony!

[amerrychase]

I’m sure there’s a “stories of St. Anthony” thread around, but I haven’t seen a recent one. Anyway, had a nice moment with him today.

As background: my grandmother has dementia. She’s very forgetful and loses things constantly. She’s also paranoid and accuses visitors (usually my mother, sister, or myself) of stealing these lost items. If someone helps her find something, she thinks they just “snuck it back in the house” and that they are purposely messing with her head. It’s sad and we all try to be patient, but these episodes have lasting consequences & really damage our relationships with her.

So, today, my grandmother lost a coin purse that had over $1000 in it. She’d been searching for hours around the house and could not find it. While mom and I were out shopping, she called mom to ask her if she’d seen it/accuse her of taking it. Mom was understandably upset, and we left the mall to head to GM’s house to help her look. On the way, mom was getting more and more worried that she wouldn’t be able to find the purse & would have to replace the missing money (Money’s tight right now- it would have been a real hardship). She said the best thing would be for grandma to find it while we weren’t there, so she would know that we had nothing to do with taking it. That’s when I asked St. Anthony to intercede for us, and help grandma find it before we got there. And he did! Not a minute later, grandma called back to say she found it- and she apologized for accusing mom! That never happens!

He’s always so quick on the draw! He’s never let me down. I’d love to hear other stories.

 

[catholictiger]

real quick cause I need to get back to my studying but it was last year sometime, and I had lost my iPod and couldn’t find it, kinda in a panic i look for it all around the catholic center I hung around all the time couldn’t find it. I prayed to saint anthony to help me find it, but that day I don’t So disappointed. Anyway the next week I am sitting in our rec room and there are some old coaches in there. I then realize that there is a hole in this coach, and I stick my hand in there, being courious to see what’s down there and eventually with the help of a broken board I find something kinda square in shape and hard I move it around to where I can grab a hold of it. Hey look its my iPod. So St Anthony came through there.

Actually a couple of times this past weekend St Anthony came through for me.

lost my wallet and few minuets after I asked st antohny boom there it is.

also lost this little recorder thing. Boom found it a couple min later.

 

[Holly3278]

That’s awesome about the missing coin purse! I didn’t read any of the other posts.

That said, Saint Anthony has helped me find missing things a lot over the years that I have been Catholic. He has also helped me with other things not related to missing items.

 

[synlly]

Isnt that great.Sometime ago, he helpedme find a book i looked for.Was so depressed cos the content of the book were so important.Imediately i asked St Anthony to please interceed for me,i lifted my head,and that was it on the shelf.Praise God!

 

[LiveJoyfully]

I want to thank St. Anthony for helping my husband and me find our daughter’s tooth. Temporarily, it was placed carefully away but wasn’t there when we went to retrieve it. It was lost and miraculously, I found it in the pocket of my robe! Thank you, thank you St. Anthony! You have helped us find many small and sentimental items in the past. Thank you for continuing to bless us.