He heals an inoperable tumor after praying to Saint Anthony

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An inoperable malignant liver carcinoma: diagnosis pronounced at the hospital in Fondi (Latina) and confirmed at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome. Pilgrimage to the tomb of Sant'Antonio in Padua a year later and ... recovery, with a number of specialist doctors to note the disappearance of the tumor, a result confirmed in subsequent years whenever Antonio Cataldi, 54, hotelier, underwent the prescribed controls.

"A miracle of the Saint", says the protagonist of this story, where, every year on the occasion of the feast of June 13, he comes on pilgrimage, to give thanks and "to pray ... especially for others".

Cataldi is the owner of the Hotel dei Fiori, the fourth generation of a family that founded it in 1907, married to Angela, Civitina's father (thirty years old), Matteo (twenty eight), Filippo Maria (eighteen years old).

He says that, for a disorder he was unable to justify, he was advised by his medical brother Enzo to undergo clinical tests in the local hospital. And it was a cold shower, indeed very cold: what has already been said - diagnosis confirmed at the Gemelli Polyclinic.

«My sister Amalia, who had gone on pilgrimage to Padua several times, urged me to follow her on an organized coach trip. So, I who was devoted to the Saint, like my mother, but had never been to his grave, went ».