Antony

Venerable and God-bearing Father Anthony the Great, Father of Monasticism

Forms of name: Anthony, Antony

St. Anthony was a famed ascetic and wonderworker who lived in the Thebaid desert for 85 years, and was spiritual father to several monasteries which grew up around him. The story of his life was written by St. Athanasius the Great (to whom St. Anthony, at his death, left one of his monastic mantles).

Commemorated: January 17
 
Saints of the Orthodox Church