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The Life of Saint Antony #10
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Newly Translated and Annotated by Robert T. Meyer
Newly Translated and Annotated by Robert T. Meyer
Publication Data: New York, NY/Mahwah, NJ: Newman Press, 1978
Format: hardcover
Number of Pages: vi + 154
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.2 cm × 14.6 cm × 1.6 cm
ISBN: 0‒8091‒0250‒1
St. Athanasius
Newly Translated and Annotated by Robert T. Meyer
No. 10 of Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation
“The present volume contains the most important document of early monasticism, The Life of St. Antony, whose author is no less a man than the great St. Athanasius himself. [...]When Antony died in the year 356 at the age of one hundred and five years, he was the recognized founder and father of monasticism. His original settlement at Pispir of monks who looked to him as their superior, had become the center of the solitary life in Egypt. It was a school for asceticism, including such famous solitaries as Hilarion, who visited Antony in his youth and later helped spread the monastic life in Palestine; Macarius the Elder, spiritual father to several thousand monks in the desert of Scete; Amoun, the founder of Nitrian monasticism; Paul the Simple, and others. [...]Athanasius saw in Antony the ideal monk and wished to leave behind a literary monument to perpetuate his memory and to serve as a model for others, notably for such as sought perfection in the monastic life.”
—“INTRODUCTION”
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
TEXT
Prologue
Birth and Youth of Antony
Antony’s Call and his First Steps in Asceticism
Early Conflicts with Demons
Antony’s Life in the Tombs. Further Struggles with Demons
He Crosses the Nile. Life in the Desert Solitude of Pispir
He Leaves his Solitude. The Father and Teacher of Monks
Antony’s Address to the Monks (16-43)
Monastic Virtue
The Candidate for Martyrdom under Maximin Daja (311)
The Daily Martyr of the Monastic Life
Flight to the Inner Mountain
Demons Again
Antony Visits the Brethren along the Nile
The Brethren Visit Antony
Miracles in the Desert
Visions
Antony’s Devotion to the Church’s Ministers
His Loyalty to the Faith
Wisdom to the Wise
The Emperor Constantine Writes to him
He Foretells the Ravages of the Arian Heretics
God’s Wonder-Worker and Physician of Souls
Death
Epilogue
NOTES
To the Introduction
To the Text
INDEX
Format: hardcover
Number of Pages: vi + 154
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.2 cm × 14.6 cm × 1.6 cm
ISBN: 0‒8091‒0250‒1
St. Athanasius
Newly Translated and Annotated by Robert T. Meyer
No. 10 of Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation
“The present volume contains the most important document of early monasticism, The Life of St. Antony, whose author is no less a man than the great St. Athanasius himself. [...]When Antony died in the year 356 at the age of one hundred and five years, he was the recognized founder and father of monasticism. His original settlement at Pispir of monks who looked to him as their superior, had become the center of the solitary life in Egypt. It was a school for asceticism, including such famous solitaries as Hilarion, who visited Antony in his youth and later helped spread the monastic life in Palestine; Macarius the Elder, spiritual father to several thousand monks in the desert of Scete; Amoun, the founder of Nitrian monasticism; Paul the Simple, and others. [...]Athanasius saw in Antony the ideal monk and wished to leave behind a literary monument to perpetuate his memory and to serve as a model for others, notably for such as sought perfection in the monastic life.”
—“INTRODUCTION”
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
TEXT
Prologue
Birth and Youth of Antony
Antony’s Call and his First Steps in Asceticism
Early Conflicts with Demons
Antony’s Life in the Tombs. Further Struggles with Demons
He Crosses the Nile. Life in the Desert Solitude of Pispir
He Leaves his Solitude. The Father and Teacher of Monks
Antony’s Address to the Monks (16-43)
Monastic Virtue
The Candidate for Martyrdom under Maximin Daja (311)
The Daily Martyr of the Monastic Life
Flight to the Inner Mountain
Demons Again
Antony Visits the Brethren along the Nile
The Brethren Visit Antony
Miracles in the Desert
Visions
Antony’s Devotion to the Church’s Ministers
His Loyalty to the Faith
Wisdom to the Wise
The Emperor Constantine Writes to him
He Foretells the Ravages of the Arian Heretics
God’s Wonder-Worker and Physician of Souls
Death
Epilogue
NOTES
To the Introduction
To the Text
INDEX
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