The plans for this project were made by Fr. Joseph Diacono. Before that the same friars had acquired the land from their benefactor Fr. John Borg canon of the church of Saint Paul shipwreck in Valletta. The work commenced immediately, and eventually we had the first part of the convent completed in January 1902. The bishop Mons Giovanni M. Camilleri in the 15 of May of the same year blessed a provisory chapel. In the 7 of September the Gozitan Bishop placed the first stone. All the construction of the church was paid by Joseeph Sultana a business man from Nadur. The most expected day arrived and on Sunday of the 28 of October, 1906 Bishop Camilleri blessed the church. The first statue of Saint Anthony which in the present day is alocated at the church of Ghasri, Gozo was manufactured by the Hebrew Carmel Mallia of Hal Qormi. The present statue which is the third one was made by the italian sculpture Luigi Gucci from Lecce.

 The altar which today is no longer existent due to the reforms of the liturgy made by the second Vatican Council was worked by Mariano Spina in Sicily. We can affirm from our documents found in our Francsican Province, that the first feast goes back to the year 1914. An important event happened between May 1941 and April 1944 when the Miracolous Crucifix of the church ran by the Franciscans in Valletta was brought due to the war in this chruch. In the same place were the crucifix was placed, today we have a resemblance of the same crucifix. As time went by, their was the need of a centre, and in Feburaury of 1981 the work began and the same centre was terminated in the 8 of September of the samee year, obviously blessed by the minister provincial of the Franciscan Order. Part of the convent was restructured and a house for retreats was opened. The same house brings the name of Padova and a farmhouse was eventually transformed in the Montepaolo hermitage.