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Addition on St Antony in culture.
He instructed his followers to bury his body in an unmarked, secret grave, lest his body become an object of [[veneration]]. The monastic rules of Saint Anthony, the "[[patriarch]]" of monastic life, have served as the basis for countless monasteries.
==In Culture==
Although it is not written by an Orthodox Christian, the French writer Gustave Flaubert provided an imaginative vision of St Antony in his play, "The Temptation of St Antony" (''La Tentation de Saint Antoine''), published in 1874.
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