St anthony the abbot biography

st anthony the abbot biography
It will be proper to define St. Anthony's place, and to explain his influence in the history of Christian probably was not the first Christian hermit; it is more reasonable to believe that, however little historical St. Jerome's "Vita Pauli" may be, some kernel of fact underlies the story (Butler, op. cit., Part I, , ), but Paul's existence was wholly unknown till long after.
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