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Saint of the Day Feast: January 17 ✠ Saint Anthony the Great ✠ Venerable and God-bearing/ Father of Monasticism: Born: January 12, 251 Herakleopolis Magna, Egypt Died: January 17, 356 (Aged 105) Mount Colzim, Egypt Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church Coptic Orthodox Church Assyrian Church of the East Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodox Churches Anglicanism Lutheranism Major shrine: Monastery of St. Anthony, Egypt Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, France Patronage: Skin Diseases, Basket Makers, Brushmakers, Gravediggers, Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Rome Saint Anthony was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony such as Anthony of Padua, by various epithets of his own: Anthony the Great, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, and Anthony of Thebes. For his importance among the Desert Fathers and to all later Christian...

Saint of the Day (January 17)  ✠ St. Antony the Great ✠ Born: January 12, 251 AD, Herakleopolis Magna, Egypt Died: January 17, 356 AD, Roman Egypt, Egypt Feast: 17 January (Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy); 22 Tobi (Coptic Calendar) Canonized: Pre-Congregation Attributes: bell; pig; book; Tau Cross Tau cross with bell pendant Saint Anthony the Great is known as the Father of monasticism, and the long ascetical sermon in The Life of Saint Anthony by Saint Athanasius (Sections 16-34), could be called the first monastic Rule. He was born in Egypt in the village of Coma, near the desert of the Thebaid, in the year 251. His parents were pious Christians of illustrious lineage. Anthony was a serious child and was respectful and obedient to his parents. He loved to attend church services, and he listened to the Holy Scripture so attentively, that he remembered what he heard all his life. When Saint...