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10 Temptation of Saint Anthony
“Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.” Saint Anthony
Feast Day: January 17
Saint Anthony of Egypt (c. 251–356) is the father of Christian monasticism. Born to wealthy Coptic parents, he heard the Gospel command to sell all and follow Christ, gave his patrimony to the poor, and withdrew first to a tomb and finally to the desert of Mount Colzim, where he lived for more than seventy years. Athanasius’s Life of Anthony made him the patron of every hermit and the most imitated saint of late antiquity. His famous combats with demons inspired centuries of Western art and became the very image of spiritual warfare. Disciples gathered in such numbers that the desert, as Athanasius wrote, ‘was made a city by monks.’
St. Anthony the Great — Feast Day January 17 | American Catholic
Traditional Prayer
O God, who led Saint Anthony into the desert to do battle with the powers of darkness, grant that we who venerate his memory may, by the example of his holy life, be found worthy of your grace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
