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Antony of Egypt

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
251 - 356
Description
Born in Coma (Upper Egypt); sold all his possessions aged twenty and lived among the local ascetics. From 286 to 306 he dwelt in complete solitude. He went to Alexandria in 311 to encourage the confessors during the persecution of Maximinus. He refuted the Arians at Alexandria in 355. A Life of St Antony was written by St Athanasius. His relics were translated to Alexandria in 561. Translations were claimed much later by Constantinople and La Motte (Vienne, France), where the Order of the Hospitallers of St Antony was founded c. 1100. ODS, 28-9.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
None Abbot 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
1 17 yes St Antony of Egypt None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
Pigs and bells None
specialist associations
association notes
St Antony's Fire St Antony's Fire is a toxic parasitic infection in humans, otherwise known as 'ergotism'.
Patron of monks None
Healer of humans and animals None