A beautiful portrait of the radical devotion of St. Antony and
his call to holy living.
"It was truly amazing that being alone in such a desert Antony
was niether distracted by the demons who confronted him, nor was he
frightened of their ferocity when so many four-legged beasts and
reptiles were there. But truly he was one who, as Scripture says,
having trusted in the Lord, was like Mount Zion, keeping his mind
unshaken and unruffled; so instead the demons fled and the wild
beasts, as it is written, made peace with him."--from The Life of
Antony
Athanasius (c. 295-373) was an Alexandrian whose life was
committed at an early age to the Christian community growing there.
He became a controversial bishop and one of the most vivid and
forceful personalities in political and religious affairs. His
famous account, The Life of Antony, inaugurated the genre of the
lives of the saints and established the frame of Christian
hagiography, quickly attaining the status of a classic and becoming
one of the most influential writings in Christian history. It tells
the spiritual story of St. Antony, the founder of Christian
monasticism. A pioneer in spiritual experience, he marked a new
epoch in the Christian experience and set the terms for the
Church's ideal of the life of devotion. He transferred the center
of monastic life from the periphery of established communities to
the barren and isolated setting of a hermitage, away from
civilization, in a location of solitude and serenity. The Life of
Antony is a beautiful portrait of what a life committed to God
demands and promises.
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