Item 0157 - Ricordo della S. Pasqua. Chiesa Cattedrale di Guastalla

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The blue print picture shows the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a medallion. Around this, there are seven portraits of the declared Blessed and Saints in the year in question 1931 - B. Corrado da Parzham, B. Paola Frassinetti,S. Teofilo da Corte, S. Caterina Thomas, S. Roberto Bellarmino, the Canadian-American Martyred Saints and S. Lucia Filippini. At the bottom there is stated the name of the Parish Priest of Guastalla (Emiglia Romagna, Italy) - D. Ausonio Bossi. On the second page, one finds a prayer taken from the Roman Missal and beneath very short biographical notes on the saints and Blessed found on the first page. The third page recounts the Miracle of the Mule by St Anthony. One day, a heretic told St Anthony that he would believe that Christ was truly present in the Holy Eucharist only if his mule bowed down to it. The heretic starved his mule for three days. St Anthony stood off to one side with the consecrated Host in his hands, while the heretic stood on the other side holding some fodder for the mule to eat. The mule, ignoring its own extreme hunger, went before the Holy Eucharist and knelt down to adore the Blessed Sacrament. On the fourth and last page there is a painting of this miracle. Around this picture there are six medallions depicting some of the miracles performed by St Anthony: (clockwise) the sermon to the fish in Rimini; the reattached foot; the miser's heart and at the far end, the young girl Eurilia comes back to life In the centre there is a medallion showing the death of the Saint. At the bottom of the back page, there is a note marked IMPORTANT! stating that Eastertide starts from Palm Sunday and ends with the feast of the Holy Trinity on Sunday 31 May 1930.

• Italian