Franciscan Media, formerly St. Anthony Messenger Press, is a multimedia company comprising St. Anthony Messenger magazine, Franciscan Media and Servant books, Catholic Greetings, Saint of the Day, Minute Meditations, and AmericanCatholic.org, used by millions of people, primarily in the United States, but also worldwide.
Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, Franciscan Media is a not-for-profit limited liability corporation (LLC) owned, financed, and operated by the Franciscan Friars of St. John the Baptist, a province of the worldwide Order of Friars Minor.
In 1876, the friars began publishing the German-language monthly Der Sendbote (German-American Messenger of the Sacred Heart).
In June 1893 the Franciscans of St. John the Baptist Province published the first copy of St. Anthony Messenger, for inspirational reading.
[2] The mission of Franciscan Media is to "share God's love through thoughtful communications in the spirit of St.