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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Life of Antony

by Athanasius of Alexandria

Athanasius' biography of the Egyptian hermit Antony, written soon after his death around 356. It became a model for Christian hagiography and helped spread the monastic ideal across the Roman world.

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