Fr. Antoni Riera Lliteras was born on January 16, 1936 in Petra, Majorca. Son of Miguel Riera Bauzá and Esperanza Lliteras Canet. He was baptized on January 17, 1936.
He received the Franciscan habit in the Porziuncula on September 9, 1951 and after the novitiate held in Artà, he made temporary profession on September 14, 1952. In Rome, on November 9, 1958, he made his solemn profession. From March 1 to July 13, 1958, he received minor orders. On October 25, 1959 he was ordained subdeacon and, then, deacon on December 19, 1959. He received priestly ordination from Bishop Luis Traglia on March 12, 1960 in Rome.
He studied Humanities in La Porciúncula and Philosophy studies in Inca and Palma. He graduated in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Angelicum University in Rome in 1960.
After Priestly Ordination, he was assigned to the Parish of San Francisco in Madrid to pursue university studies, graduating as a Bachelor of Philosophy and Letters.
In 1967, he was appointed Master of Clerics and re-elected in the following triennium of 1970-73. In May 1970 he was elected Provincial Definitor and appointed parish priest of the Parish of San Francisco del Pil larí and taught Latin and Spanish at the Colegio de la Porciúncula.
Four years later, in 1977, he was appointed Director of the Colegio de San Francisco de Palma. In the Provincial Congregation of 1981, he was elected Provincial Definitor, re-elected Director of the College. He left this position in 1989, when he was assigned to the Fraternity of Inca as Vicar and Director of the Ramón Llull College. From 1981 to 1989 he was once again elected Provincial Definitor and delegate of the F.E.R.E. in the Balearic Islands, positions he held until 1997, when he was assigned to the Sanctuary of Nostra Señora of Cura as local Minister and head of the shelter. In 2001 he was appointed Vicar of the Fraternity and Parish Priest of Pina and Lloret.
After eight years, in 2005 he was assigned to the Convent of San Francisco de Inca and named Archpriest of Raiguer.
In the Congregation of 2009, he was assigned to Porciúncula as Master of the Professed, counselor of the Fraternity and parish priest of Pil.larí. He was also a member of the Initial Training Commission and Training delegate to CONFER.
In the 2013 Congregation, he was assigned to the Fraternity of Artà, where he remained until 2018, when he became part of the religious cared for in the Provincial Infirmary. On June 16, 2023, the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, at the age of 87, he was visited by sister death, after a week of palliative care.
Father Antoni was a good Franciscan friar, with a calm, thoughtful, austere character and great common sense. As a sign of his love for the Province, he collected in a second volume the life, mission and works of the brothers who had already been visited by Sister Death. Before his departure, there are those who have said: “today in our house we have one less brother but, in heaven, one more saint.” The service and burial took place in the Palma cemetery on Monday, June 19 and the funeral on Tuesday, June 20 in the church of the Porziuncula.