For his life, Surius and Wadding arranged and mutilated the sources to which they had access; the Bollandists had only a legend of the fifteenth century.

The Latin manuscript 14,363 of the Bibliotheque Nationale gives one which dates from the thirteenth.

Very Rev.Father Hilary, of Paris: _Saint Antoine de Padone, sa legende primitive_, Montreuil-sur-Mer, Imprimerie Notre-Dame-des-Pres, 1890, 1 vol., 8vo.Cf._Legenda seu vita et miracula S.Antonii saeculo xiii concinnata ex cod.memb.antoniae bibliothecae_ a P.M.

Antonio Maria Josa min.comv.Bologna, 1883, 1 vol., 8vo.
[16] This evangelical character of his mission is brought out in relief by all his biographers.

1 Cel., 56; 84; 89; 3 Soc.