Orthodox Icon Saint Anthony

Orthodox Icon Saint Anthony

The Orthodox Icon of Saint Anastasius is lovingly crafted in natural poplar wood. Its technique is lithography, while the wood is carved with a wavy outline that gives a modern touch to the icon.

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Saint Anthony the Great

Anthony the Great is the first ascetic of Christianity, who founded healthy Monasticism. He lived during the years of the emperors Diocletian and Maximian until the time of Constantine the Great and his children. He lived most of his life as an ascetic in the desert and died on January 17, 356.

He was born in 251 AD. in Upper Egypt by wealthy and virtuous parents, whom he lost at a young age. He quickly decides to abandon the worldly and departs for the desert, after first settling his younger sister in a parthenon of upbringing and distributing the wealth of his 300 fertile estates to the poor of his region.

The acceptance he had was very wide and many people came to him to heal them. He healed the sick of his patron, but also praying to Christ. Always fond of the desert, he goes to the ruins of a fortress and dwells in a cave without being seen by anyone and receiving no one but an acquaintance of his, who brought him bread every six months for the whole semester. Night and day he did ascetic struggles with which he mortifies the strife of the passions, and reaches the point of apathy.

Antonio reaches the highest limits of the exercise so that his soul could leave his body while he was still alive. He becomes the model of ascetics.

In 311 in the terrible persecutions of Christians he leaves his hermitage and fights the hard battle of the believer against idolatry and fraud. He does the same forty years later when, at the age of one hundred, he went down once more, to Alexandria, to combat the heresy of Arius.

He surrendered his blessed soul to God the rewarder at the age of 105 years.

Although, as Athanasios the Great says, one of Saint Anthony's last wishes was for his burial place to remain hidden, the monks who lived near him said that they possessed his holy relic, which in the reign of Justinian (561 AD ), was deposited in the Church of Saint John the Forerunner in Alexandria and from there later, in 635 AD, it was transferred to Constantinople.

Orthodox Church celebrates his memory on January 17

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Orthodox Icon Saint Anthony