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appealed to by devout clients for finding lost objects. The meagre accounts of his life which we possess have been supplemented by numerous popular legends, which represent him as a continuous worker of miracles, and describe his marvellous eloquence by pictures of fishes leaping out of the water to hear him. There are many confraternities established in his honour throughout Christendom, and the number of "pious" biographies devoted to him would fill many volumes. The most trustworthy modern works are by A. Lepitre, _St Antoine de Padoue_ (Paris, 1902, in _Les Saints_ series: good bibliography; Eng. trans. by Edith Guest, London, 1902), and by Leopold de Cherance, _St Antoine de Padoue_ (Paris, 1895; Eng. trans., London, 1896). His works, consisting of sermons and a mystical commentary on the Bible, were published in an appendix to those of St Francis, in the _Annales Minorum_ of Luke Wadding (Antwerp, 1623), and are also reproduced by Horoy, _Medii aevi bibliotheca patristica_ (1880, vi. pp. 555 et sqq.); see art. "Antonius von Padua" in Herzog-Hauck, _Realencyklopadie_. ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906), American reformer, was born at Adams, Massachusetts, on the 15th of February 1820, the daughter of Quakers. Soon after her birth, her family moved to the state of New York, and after 1845 she lived in Rochester. She received her early education in a school maintained by her father for his own and neighbours' children, and from the time she was seventeen until she was thirty-two she taught in various schools. In the decade preceding the outbreak of the Civil War she took a prominent part in the anti-slavery and temperance movements in New York, organizing in 1852 the first woman's state temperance society in America, and in 1856 becoming the agent for New York state of the American Anti-slavery Society. After 1854 she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for woman's rights, and became recognized as one of the ablest and most zealous advocates, both as a public speaker and as a writer, of the complete legal equality of the two sexes. From 1868 to 1870 she was the proprietor of a weekly paper, _The Revolution_, published in New York, edited by Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and having for its motto, "The true republic--men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." She was vice-president-at-large of the National Woman's Suffrage Association from the
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