Biography of St. Anthony

St. Anthony (251 – 356), also known as Anthony Fivskim – the father of monasticism, was born about 251 in Qom, near Heraclius in Upper Egypt. Having given all his possessions to the poor, he, for the sake of a pious life, new and retired in 270 to one of the tombs near their homeland, and later even farther into the desert, in the ruins of the castle. Here, tormented by frightening visions, he led a fierce struggle against their own flesh. Only occasionally, as for example. during the prosecution of Christians 311, A. appeared out of his solitude, the celebrated people as a saint. When the disciples followed him into the wilderness and built their homes near him, Alexander began to preach to them the prayer and work. He himself ate bread and salt. His biography is full of stories of miraculous recovery and exorcising demons of the saints, but at the same time there are many reasonable practical maxims of piety.

A. died 106 years, about 356 years. In the Catholic Church enjoys a very high AV value. The story of his temptations was for centuries an inexhaustible subject for artists. The most famous painting of David Teniers the old Berlin Museum.

In recent times on the same subject written by French writer G. Flaubert legend: "La tentation de St Antoine". Pray that the holy help against the disease named after him – gangrene often raging in the Middle Ages, and consisted of members of necrosis due to ergotism. One rich French nobleman, named Gaston, beg recover his son from the disease to the relics of St. Alexander Didede la Mothe, founded in gratitude (1095) The hospital fraternity of St. A., for the care and protection of pilgrims, and he became its first grandmaster.

In 1096 at the Clermont Order was approved by the pope, took monastic vows in 1218 and 1298 turned Boniface VIII in the brotherhood of the statute bl. Augustine, so that his grandmaster named abbot, had his residence in Didier-de-la-Motte, and was a general of all the monasteries of the Order. Abbots called Teutonic later pretseptorami.

Clothing Antonito or antoniantsev, as they were called as canons, was black with a cross out of the blue enamel on his chest, in the form of T. Numerous donations have made them wealthy and took them to the Order of wide distribution. Their pretseptor in Lichtenberg was before the Reformation Chancellor Vitenberg University. Already in the XVIII century. they had a lot of monasteries, especially in France, but in 1774 merged with the Maltese. Image St. Anthony considered a safety measure against fire.