Saints by Candlelight, episode 25: Anthony and the sermon to the fishes

A bedtime retelling of Saint Anthony of Padua, with the Rimini fish sermon labelled as the legend it is.

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Saints by Candlelight has a new episode: Saint Anthony of Padua, the Portuguese scholar who sailed for Morocco, was blown to Sicily, washed dishes in a hermitage and then turned out to be the best preacher of his age.

The history is firm and early (the first Life was written within a year of his death in 1231). The sermon to the fishes at Rimini is not: it comes from the Little Flowers of Saint Francis, more than a hundred years later, and the episode says so out loud, in the welcome and in the notes. The narrator's jokes, the weather and the small conversations are invented and flagged as such.

Like episodes 20 to 24 it is text only for now: the audio folders are over the 400 MB line the creative prompt sets, so no MP3 was added. The script is written by an AI and meant for a synthetic voice, as every episode says.

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