MS M.50, Fol. 25v

St. Anthony of Padua and the Miracle of the Mule (fol. 25v, left)

A mule ignores a basket of feed and piously genuflects and receives communion from St. Anthony (the "Miracle Worker of Padua"), a miracle that converted nonbelievers to accept the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Anthony wears the robe of the Franciscan order, tied at the waist with the rope that reappears throughout the manuscript's decorative borders—the cordelière—a personal device of Anne de Bretagne. Anthony was canonized less than a year after his death in 1231; his basilica in Padua remains a popular pilgrimage site to this day.