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St Anthony the Great: The father of all monks
St Anthony the Great or St Anthony the Abbot was born in a village on the left bank of the Nile, Egypt, in the 3rd Century AD.
At the age of 20, moved by the Scripture verse “Go, sell what you have and give to the poor” (Mark 10:21), renounced everything he had to live as a hermit.
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We know his life thanks to the biography written by his disciple Athanasius of Alexandria.
St Athanasius described the hermit as a model of Christian virtue, humble, highlighting his self-control, and love for God and for others.
Though he belonged to a wealthy family, from an early age he showed no interest in the luxury of worldly life. He preferred work and meditation to parties and banquets. For his importance among the Desert Fathers and to all later Christian monasticism, he is also known as the Father of all Monks.
St Anthony spent many years living in an ancient rock tomb, struggling against the temptations of the devil, who often appeared to him to