An excerpt of the novel The Secret Saint Anthony Prayer by Richard Donze Summer was slipping away as usual in September 1963 as we got ready to start our eighth grade year at St. Anthony of Padua elementary school (named for the 13th Century Portuguese Franciscan priest…

An excerpt of the novel The Secret Saint Anthony Prayer by Richard Donze
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