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45-616: Antonio is a Roman family name originally from the Greek word anteo, antao, which means ready to fight. In the English language, it is translated as Anthony , and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella'. It also has some male derivatives, such as Anthonio, Antón, Antò, Antonis , Antoñito , Antonino , Antonello , Tonio , Tono , Toño, Toñín, Tonino , Nantonio, Ninni , Totò , Tó , Tonini, Tony, Toni, Toninho , Toñito , and Tõnis . The Portuguese equivalent

90-404: A bright light flashed, and the demons ran away. Anthony knew that the light must have come from God, and he asked God where he was before when the demons attacked him. God replied, "I was here but I would see and abide to see thy battle, and because thou hast mainly fought and well maintained thy battle, I shall make thy name to be spread through all the world." Anthony had been secretly buried on

135-411: A church to house the remains, but died before the church was even started. The building was finally erected in 1297 and became a centre of veneration and pilgrimage, known as Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye . Anthony is credited with assisting in a number of miraculous healings, primarily from ergotism , which became known as "St. Anthony's Fire". Two local noblemen credited his assistance in their recovery from

180-448: A day and sometimes fasted through two or four days. According to Athanasius , the devil fought Anthony by afflicting him with boredom, laziness, and the phantoms of women, which he overcame by the power of prayer, providing a theme for Christian art . After that, he moved to one of the tombs near his native village. There it was that the Life records those strange conflicts with demons in

225-539: A grave next to his cell. Accounts of Anthony enduring preternatural temptation during his sojourn in the Eastern Desert of Egypt inspired the often-repeated subject of the temptation of St. Anthony in Western art and literature. Anthony is said to have faced a series of preternatural temptations during his pilgrimage to the desert. The first to report on the temptation was his contemporary Athanasius of Alexandria . It

270-470: A pile of gold coins that was also a temptation from the devil. Anthony cast the gold into a fire, and gold coins immediately disappeared just like the silver one. After these two events, he had a vision where the whole world was covered with snares and traps. Anthony prayed saying, "Oh good Lord, who may escape from these snares?” He was responded to by a voice that said, "Humility shall escape them without more." Being an ascetic, Anthony went out to live in

315-408: A primordial landscape, has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which is always in harmony with that of Athanasius as the biographer. A continuation of the genre of secular Greek biography , it became his most widely read work. Sometime before 374 it was translated into Latin by Evagrius of Antioch . The Latin translation helped the Life become one of the best-known works of literature in

360-522: A well-known Latin family name, probably of Etruscan origin. The Roman general Marcus Antonius held that the origin of the name was Anthon (Ανθών), son of Hercules. This myth, recorded by Plutarch , was probably created by Marcus Antonius himself, in order to claim divine parentage. The name was in use throughout the Roman world which, at its height, comprised the whole of the Mediterranean, much of Europe and

405-716: Is Tony or Toni (sometimes Tone , Ant , Anth or Anton ). Its use as a Christian name was due to the veneration of Saint Anthony the Great , the founder of Christian monasticism, particularly in Egypt. Also significant, in Roman Catholicism, has been the later cult of Saint Anthony of Padua . In the United States, it was the 43rd most popular male name in 2021, according to the Social Security Administration . When

450-419: Is invoked against infectious diseases, particularly skin diseases. In the past, many such afflictions, including ergotism , erysipelas , and shingles , were referred to as Saint Anthony's fire . Most of what is known about Anthony comes from the Life of Anthony . Written in Greek c.  360 by Athanasius of Alexandria , it depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who, through his existence in

495-461: Is António ( Portuguese orthography ) or Antônio ( Brazilian Portuguese ). In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used, not just to differentiate between older and younger but also between more and less important. In Galician the form is Antón, in Catalan Anton, and Basque Antxon. The Greek versions of the name are Antonios (Αντώνιος) and Antonis (Αντώνης). The name derives from Antonius ,

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540-505: Is a masculine given name derived from the Antonii , a gens ( Roman family name ) to which Mark Antony ( Marcus Antonius ) belonged. According to Plutarch , the Antonii gens were Heracleidae , being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles . Anthony is an English name that is in use in many countries. It has been among the top 100 most popular male baby names in the United States since

585-615: Is also known as the Father of All Monks . His feast day is celebrated on 17 January among the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches and on Tobi  22 in the Coptic calendar . The biography of Anthony's life by Athanasius of Alexandria helped to spread the concept of Christian monasticism , particularly in Western Europe via its Latin translations. He is often erroneously considered

630-836: Is possible these events, like the paintings, are full of rich metaphor or in the case of the animals of the desert, perhaps a vision or dream. Emphasis on these stories, however, did not really begin until the Middle Ages when the psychology of the individual became of greater interest. Some of the stories included in Anthony's biography are perpetuated now mostly in paintings, where they give an opportunity for artists to depict their more lurid or bizarre interpretations. Many artists, including Martin Schongauer , Hieronymus Bosch , Joos van Craesbeeck, Dorothea Tanning , Max Ernst , Leonora Carrington and Salvador Dalí , have depicted these incidents from

675-507: Is said to have spoken to those of a spiritual disposition, leaving the task of addressing the more worldly visitors to Macarius. Macarius later founded a monastic community in the Scetic desert. The fame of Anthony spread and reached Emperor Constantine , who wrote to him requesting his prayers. The brethren were pleased with the Emperor's letter, but Anthony was not overawed and wrote back exhorting

720-691: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers . Anthony probably spoke only his native language, Coptic , but his sayings were spread in a Greek translation. He himself dictated letters in Coptic, seven of which are extant. Anthony was born in Koma in Lower Egypt to wealthy landowner parents. When he was about 20 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister. Shortly thereafter, he decided to follow

765-464: The Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria in the 1st century AD as long established in the harsh environment of Lake Mareotis and in other less accessible regions. Philo opined that "this class of persons may be met with in many places, for both Greece and barbarian countries want to enjoy whatever is perfectly good." Christian ascetics such as Thecla had likewise retreated to isolated locations at

810-419: The Life . In 338, he left the desert temporarily to visit Alexandria to help refute the teachings of Arius . When Anthony sensed his death approaching, he commanded his disciples to give his staff to Macarius of Egypt , and to give one sheepskin cloak to Athanasius of Alexandria and the other sheepskin cloak to Serapion of Thmuis , his disciple. Anthony was interred, according to his instructions, in

855-696: The Middle Ages , Anthony, along with Quirinus of Neuss , Cornelius and Hubertus , was venerated as one of the Four Holy Marshals ( Vier Marschälle Gottes ) in the Rhineland . Anthony is remembered in the Anglican Communion with a Lesser Festival on 17 January. Though Anthony himself did not organize or create a monastery, a community grew around him based on his example of living an ascetic and isolated life. Athanasius' biography helped propagate Anthony's ideals. Athanasius writes, "For monks,

900-715: The Christian world, a status it would hold through the Middle Ages . Translated into several languages, it became something of a "best seller" in its day and played an important role in the spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity. It later served as an inspiration to Christian monastics in both the East and the West, and helped to spread the concept of Christian monasticism, particularly in Western Europe via its Latin translations. Many stories are also told about Anthony in

945-439: The Emperor and his sons not to esteem this world but remember the next. The stories of the meeting of Anthony and Paul of Thebes , the raven who brought them bread, Anthony being sent to fetch the cloak given him by "Athanasius the bishop" to bury Paul's body in, and Paul's death before he returned, are among the familiar legends of the Life . However, belief in the existence of Paul seems to have existed quite independently of

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990-758: The Middle East. When the Roman Empire became Christian, the name continued to be popular because of the many great saints who bore it. Later, the name was spread all around the world as Christianity was forced to other locations (e.g. the Far East, the Americas, Australia, and Sub-Saharan Africa). Antonio may also refer to: Antonio may refer to the fictional characters: Bosnian , Catalan , Croatian , Galician , Italian , Portuguese , Romanian , and Spanish Anthony (given name) Anthony , also spelled Antony ,

1035-603: The area, spending the first years as the disciple of another local hermit . There are various legends that he worked as a swineherd during this period. According to the Temptation of Saint Anthony (1878) by Félicien Rops : Anthony is sometimes considered the first monk, and the first to initiate solitary desertification, but there were others before him. There were already ascetic hermits (the Therapeutae ), and loosely organized cenobitic communities were described by

1080-525: The background is Italian, Nino or Toni , shortened from Antonino , are used. Its popularity in the United Kingdom peaked during the 1940s; in 1944 it was the sixth most popular male name and was still as high as 14th in 1964. The name was historically spelled Antony, as in William Shakespeare 's play Antony and Cleopatra . In the 17th century, the letter "h" was inserted into the spelling on

1125-660: The belief that the name derived from the Greek word ἄνθος ( anthos ), meaning "flower". In Britain, the historical pronunciation / ˈ æ n t ən i / predominates for both spellings, while in the United States the spelling pronunciation / ˈ æ n θ ən i / is more common when the "Anthony" spelling is used. Anthony the Great Anthony the Great ( Ancient Greek : Ἀντώνιος Antṓnios ; Arabic : القديس أنطونيوس الكبير ; Latin : Antonius ; Coptic : Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲁⲛⲧⲱⲛⲓ ; c.  12 January 251 – 17 January 356)

1170-474: The city of Alexandria for worshipping monsters instead of God while beasts like the satyr spoke about Christ. Another time Anthony was travelling and found a plate of silver coins in his path. Since he was in the middle of the desert, where it didn't make any sense for anyone to be there, he declared that the silver was a temptation from the devil. Immediately after Anthony's declaration, the silver vanished. Soon, after walking some more in that desert, he found

1215-515: The desert to find his "better", Paul. On his way there, he ran into two creatures in the forms of a centaur and a satyr . Although chroniclers sometimes postulated that they might have been living beings, Western theology considers them to have been demons . While traveling through the desert, Anthony first found the centaur, a "creature of mingled shape, half horse half-man", whom he asked about directions. The creature tried to speak in an unintelligible language, but ultimately pointed with his hand

1260-475: The desert whom the Gentiles, deluded by various forms of error, worship under the names of Fauns , Satyrs , and Incubi . I am sent to represent my tribe. We pray you in our behalf to entreat the favor of your Lord and ours, who, we have learnt, came once to save the world, and 'whose sound has gone forth into all the earth.'" Upon hearing this, Anthony was overjoyed and rejoiced over the glory of Christ. He condemned

1305-593: The disease. They then founded the Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony in honor of him, who specialized in nursing the victims of skin diseases. He is venerated especially by the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit for his close association with St. Paul of Thebes , after whom they take their name. In the Life of St. Paul the First Hermit , by St. Jerome, it is recorded that it was St. Anthony that found St. Paul towards

1350-467: The end of his life and without whom it is doubtful he would be known. Veneration of Anthony in the East is more restrained. There are comparatively few icons and paintings of him. He is, however, regarded as the "first master of the desert and the pinnacle of holy monks", and there are monastic communities of the Maronite, Chaldean, and Orthodox churches which state that they follow his monastic rule. During

1395-497: The first Christian monk, but as his biography and other sources make clear, there were many ascetics before him. Anthony was, however, among the first known to go into the wilderness (about AD 270), which seems to have contributed to his renown. Accounts of Anthony enduring supernatural temptation during his sojourn in the Eastern Desert of Egypt inspired the depiction of his temptations in visual art and literature. Anthony

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1440-482: The gospel exhortation in Matthew 19 : 21, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasures in heaven." Anthony gave away some of his family's lands to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, and donated the funds to the poor. He then left to live an ascetic life, placing his sister with a group of Christian virgins . For the next fifteen years, Anthony remained in

1485-913: The late 19th century and has been among the top 100 male baby names between 1998 and 2018 in many countries including Canada, Australia, England, Ireland and Scotland. Equivalents include Antonio in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Maltese; Αντώνιος in Greek; António or Antônio in Portuguese; Antoni in Catalan, Polish, and Slovene; Anton in Dutch, Galician, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Russian, and Scandinavian languages; Antoine in French; Antal in Hungarian; and Antun or Ante in Croatian. The usual abbreviated form

1530-466: The life of Anthony is a sufficient example of asceticism . His story influenced the conversion of Augustine of Hippo and John Chrysostom . Examples of purely Coptic literature are the works of Anthony and Pachomius , who spoke only Coptic, and the sermons and preaching of Shenouda the Archmandrite , who chose to write only in Coptic. The earliest original writings in the Coptic language were

1575-455: The life of Anthony; in prose, the tale was retold and embellished by Gustave Flaubert in The Temptation of Saint Anthony . Anthony was on a journey in the desert to find Paul of Thebes , who according to his dream was a better Hermit than he. Anthony had been under the impression that he was the first person to ever dwell in the desert; however, due to the dream, Anthony was called into

1620-474: The monastery that bears his name, Der Mar Antonios . Here he spent the last forty-five years of his life, in a seclusion, not so strict as Pispir, for he freely saw those who came to visit him, and he used to cross the desert to Pispir with considerable frequency. Amid the Diocletian Persecutions , around 311 Anthony went to Alexandria and was conspicuous visiting those who were imprisoned. Anthony

1665-586: The mountaintop where he had chosen to live. His remains were reportedly discovered in 361 and transferred to Alexandria . Some time later, they were taken from Alexandria to Constantinople , so that they might escape the destruction being perpetrated by invading Saracens . In the eleventh century, the Byzantine emperor gave them to the French Count Jocelin. Jocelin had them transferred to La-Motte-Saint-Didier, later renamed. There, Jocelin undertook to build

1710-560: The outskirts of cities. Anthony is notable for having decided to surpass this tradition and headed out into the desert proper. He left for the alkaline Nitrian Desert (later the location of the noted monasteries of Nitria , Kellia , and Scetis ) on the edge of the Western Desert about 95 km (59 mi) west of Alexandria . He remained there for 13 years. Anthony maintained a very strict ascetic diet. He ate only bread, salt and water and never meat or wine. He ate at most only once

1755-494: The shape of wild beasts, who inflicted blows upon him, and sometimes left him nearly dead. After fifteen years of this life, at the age of thirty-five, Anthony determined to withdraw from the habitations of men and retire in absolute solitude. He went into the desert to a mountain by the Nile called Pispir (now Der-el-Memun), opposite Arsinoë . There he lived strictly enclosed in an old abandoned Roman fort for some 20 years. Food

1800-506: The surprise of all, he appeared to be not emaciated, but healthy in mind and body. For five or six years he devoted himself to the instruction and organization of the great body of monks that had grown up around him; but then he once again withdrew into the inner desert that lay between the Nile and the Red Sea, near the shore of which he fixed his abode on a mountain ( Mount Colzim ) where still stands

1845-454: The tombs away from the village. There were so many demons in the cave though, that Anthony's servant had to carry him out because they had beaten him to death. When the hermits were gathered to Anthony's corpse to mourn his death, Anthony was revived. He demanded that his servants take him back to that cave where the demons had beaten him. When he got there he called out to the demons, and they came back as wild beasts to rip him to shreds. Suddenly

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1890-438: The way desired, and then ran away and vanished from sight. It was interpreted as a demon trying to terrify him, or alternately a creature engendered by the desert. Anthony found next the satyr, "a manikin with hooked snout, horned forehead, and extremities like goats's feet." This creature was peaceful and offered him fruits, and when Anthony asked who he was, the satyr replied, "I'm a mortal being and one of those inhabitants of

1935-669: 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: Anthony of Egypt , Anthony the Abbot , Anthony of the Desert , Anthony the Anchorite , Anthony the Hermit , and Anthony of Thebes . For his importance among the Desert Fathers and to all later Christian monasticism , he

1980-475: Was not the first ascetic or hermit, but he may properly be called the "Father of Monasticism" in Christianity, as he organized his disciples into a community and later, following the spread of Athanasius's hagiography, was the inspiration for similar communities throughout Egypt and elsewhere. Macarius the Great was a disciple of Anthony. Visitors traveled great distances to see the celebrated holy man. Anthony

2025-417: Was thrown to him over the wall. He was at times visited by pilgrims, whom he refused to see; but gradually a number of would-be disciples established themselves in caves and in huts around the mountain. Thus, a colony of ascetics was formed, who begged Anthony to come forth and be their guide in the spiritual life. Eventually, he yielded to their importunities and, about the year 305, emerged from his retreat. To

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