The life of St. Antony

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Translated FROM the Latin. INTRODUCTION 3 TEXT 17 Prologue 17 Birth and Youth of Antony 18 Antony's Call and his First Steps in Asceticism . . 19 Early Conflicts with Demons 22 Antony's Life in the Tombs. Further Strucgles with Demons 26 He Crosses the Nile. Life in the Desert Solitude of Pispir 29 He Leaves his Solitude. The Father and Teacher of Monks 32 Antony's Address to the Monks (16-43) 33 Monastic Virtue 57 The Candidate for Martyrdom under Maximin Data .(311) 59 The Daily Martyr of the Monastic Life .... 60 Flight to the Inner Mountain 61 Demons Again 63 Antony Visits the Brethren along the Nile ... 65 The Brethren Visit Antony 66 Miracles in the Desert 68 Visions 74 Antony's Devotion to the Church's Ministers ... 76 His Loyalty to the Faith 77 Wisdom to the Wise 80 The Emperor Constantine Writes to him .... 86 He Foretells the Ravages of the Arian Heretics . . 87 God's Wonder-Worker and Physician of Souls . . 89 Death 93 Epilogue 98 NOTES 99 To the Introduction 101 To the Text 106 INDEX 137