Before San Antonio de Padua, a hungry mule kneeled before the Eucharist instead of eating, turning to a heretic that denied the real presence.
Documented history and memory received
Rimini retains a temple related to the preaching of St. Anthony and the tradition of a mule who would have kneeled before the Most Holy. In 2023 the diocese celebrated the eighth centenary of this memory through mass, procession and an explicitly commemorative representation. The scene belongs to the hagiography and popular piety; it is not presented as an experiment or as an argument against people of another conviction. The present diocese stresses that the Eucharistic fruit is solidarity.
Who venerates the memory
The look is directed to Jesus Christ and to the mystery of his Incarnation, Passion, Death, Resurrection or Reign. The image, relic, monument or custom does not act by its own power: it serves the memory of the Gospel and leads to prayer, sacraments, conversion and charity.
History, tradition and discernment
Live diocesan memory; episode of the mule as hagiography and representation. The tab retains the memory received without turning legend, witness or believing interpretation into a historically demonstrated fact.
Celebration and devotional life
Festivity or main time: Commemoration linked to San Antonio de Padua.
No automatic promise or prodigy guarantee is documented. Eucharistic veneration leads to mass, veneration, conversion, repair and charity.
Location on the map
The score points to Tempietto de San Antonio · Rimini (Italy). The coordinate was contrasted with open mapping and institutional identification of the place.
Main source
Diócesis de Rímini. Contrast lettering with OpenStreetMap/Nominatim.
Para orar
My Lord and my God, I think you're really present in this Sacrament.
Image credit
Tempietto de San Antonio in Rimini, an exact place that maintains the local memory of the Eucharistic tradition of San Antonio and the mule. This photograph replaces the previous theme image of Naples. Photo: Paperoastro, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.