Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume II/Socrates/Book I/Chapter 21

by Philip Schaff et al.

Chapter XXI.—Of Anthony the Monk.

What sort of a man the monk Anthony was, who lived in the same age, in the Egyptian desert, and how he openly contended with devils, clearly detecting their devices and wily modes of warfare, and how he performed many miracles, it would be superfluous for us to say; for Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, has anticipated us, having devoted an entire book to his biography.^[1]

Of such good men there was a large number at one time during the years of the Emperor Constantine.

Footnotes

1. Athanasius’ Life of Anthony is included in the editions of his works, such as the Benedictine (1698), that of Padua (1777). On Anthony, see also Soz. I. 3; II. 31, 34.