A revered Egyptian monk from the early fourth century, subject of Athanasius’s book Life of Saint Anthony. Regarded by many as the first monk, born in A.D. 250 in Koma, died at 105 years of age. Went into hermitage at twenty years of age, living in a tomb.
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