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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.
==Quotes==
"I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility"." “One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain. Those who are devout and whose intellect enjoys the love of God participate in the life of virtue; the ordinary intellect, however, is worldly and wavering, producing both good and evil thoughts, because it is changeful by nature and directed towards material things. But the intellect that enjoys the love of God punishes the evil which arises spontaneously because of man’s laziness.” "Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ." "A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us'." "Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labor in vain." "Obedience with abstinence gives men power over wild beasts."
==Hymns==
==Sources and External Links==
*[http://www.goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.aspsaints_view?contentid=389 Anthony the Great] from the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] website*[http://saintgeorge.org/news_and_events/church_calendar/saint_of_the_day/01jan/jan_17_saint_anthony_the_great.php Saint Anthony the Great] from the website of the Saint George [[Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America|Antiochian]] Orthodox Christian Church in Washington, DC
*[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vita-antony.html Vita S. Antoni (Life of St. Antony)] by St. [[Athanasius of Alexandria]], from the ''Medieval Sourcebook''
[[Category:4th-century saints]]
[[Category:Desert Fathers]]
[[Category:Egyptian Saints]]
[[el:Αντώνιος ο Μέγας]]
[[mk:Свети Антониј Велики]]
[[pt:Antão, o Grande]]
[[ro:Antonie cel Mare]]
