One day during a dry year, the peasants of one village came to the priest’s house to ask him for a figurine of the Holy Child. They wanted to put it around their fields in the hope of causing rain with their prayers.
The priest allowed them to take this figurine and sent them to the statue of St. Anthony, who was holding it in his hands. The peasants took the Holy Child and walked around all their fields with him, praying.
As they were returning home, a huge cloud gathered in the sky. Everyone was very happy that the prayers had been lifted and the rain was on its way. But instead of rain, a terrible hail fell on the ground. Due to bad weather, the villagers could not return the statuette of the saint to the church and stayed home for the night. Meanwhile, the hail destroyed all their work in the fields. Seeing this, the peasants again went with a complaint to the priest... - Padre, we came to take St. Anthony.
- For what?
“We want to show him what his son did yesterday!”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru