Antony, St. (An`tony, St.) , a famous anchorite of the Thebaïd, where from the age of thirty he spent 20 years of his life, in a lonely ruin by himself, resisting devils without number; left his retreat for a while to institute monasteries, and so became the founder of monachism, but returned to die; festival, Jan. 17 (251‒351).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Anto`nius, Marcus * Antony of Padua