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In the Life of St. Paul the First Hermit, by St. Jerome, it is recorded that it was St. Anthony that found St. Paul towards the end of his life and without whom it is doubtful he would be known. [34] Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, Isère, France. Veneration of Anthony in the East is more restrained. There are comparatively few icons and paintings of him.
Desert Father: In the Desert with Saint Anthony. ISBN 1-59030-145-5. Gregg, Robert C. Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus. ISBN 0809103095. Gruen, Anselm. Heaven Begins Within You: Wisdom from the Desert Fathers. ISBN 0-8245-1818-7. Keller, David G. R. Oasis Of Wisdom: The Worlds of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
Saint Anthony took the words he heard in a literal sense and that is what caused him to venture into the desert to live a life of asceticism. He made his abode in a small cave where he lived ascetically. Although St. Anthony was not the first monk, he attracted many followers and disciples, and is one of the fathers of modern Christian monasticism.
Hilarion (291–371), also known by the bynames of Thavata, [1] of Gaza, [2] and in the Orthodox Church as the Great [3] was a Christian anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great (c. 251–356). While Anthony is considered to have established Christian monasticism in the Egyptian Desert ...
Coptic monasticism was a movement in the Coptic Orthodox Church to create a holy, separate class of person from layman Christians.. It is said to be the original form of monasticism. as Anthony the Great became the first one to be called "monk" (Ancient Greek: μοναχός) and he was the first to establish a Christian monastery which is now known as the Monastery of Saint Anthony [1] at the ...
The toll house doctrine can be found for example in the Life of Saint Anthony the Great written by Athanasius of Alexandria, [10] in the life of Basil the New and Theodora, [11] [6] in the homilies of Cyril of Alexandria, [12] [6] or in a discourse of Abba Isaiah.
The Triptych of Temptation of St. Anthony is an oil painting on wood panels by the Early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch, dating from around 1501.The work portrays the mental and spiritual torments endured by Saint Anthony the Great (Anthony Abbot), one of the most prominent of the Desert Fathers of Egypt in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries.
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (French: La Tentation de Saint Antoine) is a dramatic poem in prose (or a dramatic novel) by the French author Gustave Flaubert published in 1874. Flaubert spent his whole adult life working fitfully on the book.