Poiana, did Saint Anthony actually work a miracle during his pilgrimage?
I believe so. In any case I’ll give you the facts, and let the reader judge for himself. Four young men had climbed onto a metallic structure and were trying to fasten a series of electric lights and other decorations onto the walls along the streets of Kandy. They were doing this with a long iron bar. Inadvertently, one of them touched a live, high-voltage power line with the iron bar, and immediately, a powerful electric discharge was released on the metallic structure, burning everything around them. What we simply can’t understand is how they managed to survive completely unscathed, including the man holding the bar. I received word of this episode from the bishop of Kandy, who is a frequent visitor to the Basilica here in Padua when Sri Lankans working in Italy set out on their traditional pilgrimage to our shrine. Were there other episodes worthy of note? There was, in particular, another episode worthy of The Little Flowers of St Francis. We were in Mannar, hosted by the Admiral
