Honored as the first Christian monk, Saint Anthony began his first step towards the angelic life by giving away his large inheritance and taking up a life of solitary prayer. Literally wrestling with the devil, he emerged victorious as one of the greatest masters of the Christian interior life. Even in his desert solitude other like-minded men sought him ought, and he eventually gathered many disciples around him in the first Christian monastic order. Decades of vigorous ascetic labors and prayers left him a healthy vigorous man up till the time of his death at 105. Like so many of our saint icons our St. Anthony the Great Icon comes in a number of different plaques, prints, and cathedral sizes.

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