Person
Antony the Great
about 251–356
Egyptian ascetic
Attested. A monk of this name, and the Life, are secure. Most scholars accept Athanasius as author; a minority has doubted it. Particular miracles are not independent reports.
Antony left a village in Middle Egypt for the desert and later for an inner mountain near the Red Sea. He was not a bishop and did not sit at Nicaea. Athanasius's Life of Antony, written soon after Antony's death in 356, makes him unlettered, heroic, and hostile to Arian teaching. A Latin translation carried that portrait west. Augustine says that hearing it helped turn him. The wonders in the Life are its narrative.
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Councils
No council in this list names them as a participant.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
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