Saint Athanasius of Alexandria

Life of Antony

Name: Life of Antony
Author: Saint Athanasius of Alexandria

4th c.

Classic translation

Hagiography & Martyrdom · English translation, 1890

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Prologue
Preface
Birth and Beginnings of Antony
His Early Ascetic Life
Early Conflicts With the Devil
Details of His Life at This Time (271-285?)
His Life in the Tombs, and Combats With Demons There
He Goes to the Desert and Overcomes Temptations on the Way
How Antony Took up His Abode in a Ruined Fort Across the Nile, and How He…
How He Left the Fort, and How Monasticism Began to Flourish in Egypt. Antony…
His Address to Monks, Rendered From Coptic, Exhorting Them to Perseverance, and…
The Growth of the Monastic Life at This Time (About A.D. 305)
How Antony Renewed His Ascetic Endeavours at This Time
How He Sought Martyrdom at Alexandria During the Persecution (311)
How He Lived at This Time
How He Delivered a Woman From an Evil Spirit
How at This Time He Betook Himself to His 'Inner Mountain.'
How He There Combated the Demons
Of the Miraculous Spring, and How He Edified the Monks of the 'Outer' Mountain…
How Humanely He Counselled Those Who Resorted to Him
Of the Case of Fronto, Healed by Faith and Prayer
Of a Certain Virgin, and of Paphnutius the Confessor
Of the Two Brethren, and How One Perished of Thirst
Of the Death of Amun, and Antony's Vision Thereof
Of Count Archelaus and the Virgin Polycration
Strange Tales of the Casting Out of Demons
Of Antony's Vision Concerning the Forgiveness of His Sins
Of the Passage of Souls, and How Some Were Hindered of Satan
How Antony Reverenced All Ordained Persons
How He Rejected the Schism of Meletius and the Heresies of Manes and Arius
How He Confuted the Arians
How He Visited Alexandria, and Healed and Converted Many, and How Athanasius…
How He Reasoned With Divers Greeks and Philosophers at the 'Outer' Mountain
How He Confuted the Philosophers by Healing Certain Vexed With Demons
How the Emperors Wrote to Antony, and of His Answer
How He Saw in a Vision the Present Doings of the Arians
That His Healings Were Done by Christ Alone, Through Prayer
How Wisely He Answered a Certain Duke
Of the Duke Balacius, and How, Warned by Antony, He Met With a Miserable End
How He Bore the Infirmities of the Weak, and of His Great Benefits to All Egypt
Of His Discernment, and How He Was a Counsellor to All
How, When Now 105 Years Old, He Counselled the Monks, and Gave Advice…
Of His Sickness and His Last Will
Of Antony's Death
How Antony Remained Hale Until His Death, and How the Fame of Him Filled All…
The End

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