The Temptation of Saint Anthony the Great 1594 by Maerten de Vos 1532-1605 Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, Belgian. ( Saint Anthony (3rd–4th century) was one of the first monks to retire to the desert to devote himself to fasting and prayer. The Church knows his life story thanks to his biographer, St. Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria. “When we visited St. Anthony in the ruins where he lived, we heard a commotion, thousands of voices and the clash of arms. Also, at night, wild beasts would come, and the saint fought them off with prayer,” said Athanasius. )

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