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In 1995, on the 800th anniversary of Saint Anthony's birth,
Professor Antonio Papisca defined him as one of the greatest
human rights defenders.
In
this way, he expressed the need, still current in our times,
for the teachings and testimony of the great evangeliser
of the new Europe at the beginning of the 1200s. Saint Anthony
was called to the Gospel of Christ, to live following those
laws, or better, that divine project, which had been admirably
thought out and put into action for the salvation and happiness
of the human family, in harmony with all creation.
A
rapid look through the Sermones of Anthony throws light on
the hidden tension that existed between the laws of man
and the law of God. Saint Anthony worked hard to lift
the first to the paradigm of the second.
Only divine law, in fact, as a natural right or a revealed
divine right, is able to:
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