St. Anthony of Padua Teaching, the Fishes Listening.
Today is St. Anthony of Padua Feast Day. Saturday, June 13, 2026. The stories of the saints are good for children to listen to. The stories instill in the children faith, hope , devotion, love & imagination. Also strength & courage.
Reading the stories of the saints to the children, showing them fine art to support the stories, then asking the children to retell the story & to draw the story they heard.
Then the little children learn. It is like a prayer. It is the stories of the Piscean Age. And the children also learn to pray.

And so, today…
St. Anthony is the patron saint of things lost – things, objects, memories, people, etc. St. Anthony was born in Portugal, became a priest and walked around the lands and taught the Piscean Teachings. St. Anthony attempted to teach the Cathar heretics.
In some of the lands, people ignored him. In some, the city leaders told the people not to listen.

Rimini was a town where both Christians & Cathars lived. Cathars did not believe in One God. They followed the Manichean heresy (matter, earth, the body was evil, god was both good & evil, etc. ancient persian religion).

St. Anthony taught the new Pisces religion of One God, teaching against the Cathar beliefs. The result was resistance by the people. Often when teaching in a village the people would ignore St. Anthony.

In one village after another, no one would listen. So one day, St. Anthony sat down by a river in the town of Rimini, (seaside resort, fishing village, trade port, northern Italy, south of Venice, along the Adriatic Sea at the mouth of the Marecchia River), reflected upon the silence of the people. And asked himself who would listen to the teachings?

Because, wherever Anthony went, he was greeted by silence.
It was the 1220s AD when St. Anthony traveled to Rimini (a hotbed of Cathar heresy) to preach the New Testament, the Pisces Gospel. The city leaders ordered the townspeople to ignore him. St Anthony was met with a silent, hardened, unreceptive human audience.

On this one day, Anthony walked along the sea, praying and reflecting upon what had happened. As he walked outside the town, he came to the mouth of the Marecchia River where it flows into the Adriatic. There he simply began to simply tall, He talked to the sea, to the ocean waters & to the fish.

He called out, “Waters and fishes of the river and sea, would you like to listen to the Teachings of the Word of God? Because the people do not wish to hear it.”

There was at first a silence, as if the waters, upon hearing St. Anthony, stopped moving. But, suddenly there was a loud sloshing about in the sea and gradually over time thousands of fish began to gather & neatly arrange themselves in rows, all their heads could be seen above the surface of the water as if they were straining to listen to every one of Anthony’s words.

And so St. Anthony, upon seeing this strange phenomena, began to teach the fishes and the waters. And there was silence as the fishes listened.

What did St. Anthony say to them?

“My brothers the fishes, you in your hearts give thanks to your Creator, God. God, our bountiful and kind Creator, when he made you, ordered you to increase and multiply, and gave you his blessing… you were the food and nourishment of the eternal King, Jesus Christ, at the Last Supper, when He spoke the Beatitudes, both before and after his resurrection. Let us thank Him together.”

Then St. Anthony and the fishes and the waters all gave thanks to God, their Creator for their life, and for living on the beautiful planet called the Earth. They thanked the Sun and Moon, the air, the waters, the lands, the earth and they thanked God for each other.”

In the meantime, the people of Rimini, knowing something was occurring at the seashore, began to gather together & to listen. They also saw a miracle – all the fishes of the sea had gathered to listen to Anthony teach. They could feel the love in the words, and in the air. The love between the fishes and St. Anthony. And they wanted that love too.

What began with simple interest in an extraordinary event turned into a reality and a belief that Anthony was speaking to their very hearts. They were so moved by Anthony’s words, by his call to their herts, that they abandoned their hardened positions and returned to the Church.

It was through the unselfish love of Anthony for the new Pisces Christian teaching that he began to speak of these things to the fishes. And the fishes listened. And then so did the people.

It reminds us of St. Francis of Assisi, who spoke to the birds of the air. He is the historical figure most famous for speaking to the birds. He preached sermons to larges flock of birds, praising God for their freedom and reminding them of His daily provision.