Hermit and abbot in the Thebaid. One of the founders of eremetic monasticism. d. 356.
Synax.CP, Jan. 17, par. 1 (cols. 397-8).
Simeon Metaphrastes, Jan. 17.
BHG 140-141h; BiblSS II 106-36; DHGE III 726-34; Holweck 88; LCI V 205-17; ODB 125-6; ODCC 67-8; ODS 22-3.
Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 129v. Monk. Death. Two monks flank the body of Anthony, wearing a hooded habit, lying on a bier. One stands at his head, the other, kneeling, embraces his legs. Small church and colonnade. Damaged.
Mount Sinai, gr. 512, fol. 2v. Monk, holding cross. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 23, figs. 1B6, 1B9; Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 72, fig. 198; color pl. 15).
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 25r. Monk. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, pp. 14-15, fig. 45).
Patmos, Monastery of Saint John, gr. 253, fol. 22r. Author portrait. Initial A. Athanasius of Alexandria, a bishop, sits on a high-backed chair writing in a book. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 147, figs. 4D1-2).
Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 295r. Monk, wearing hood. Holding cross.
Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 327. Monk. Death. Two monks flank the body of Anthony, wearing a hooded habit, lying on a bier. One stands at his head, the other, kneeling, embraces his legs. Small church and colonnade. (Menologio, I, pp. 88-9, II, fig. p. 327).
Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Monk, holding inscribed scroll.9 Fragmentary. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 138, fig. T III 21; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50).
Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, wearing hood. Holding scroll. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 272, fig. 13, pl. 55).
SEE ALSO: Speusippus, Eleusippus, Meleusippus, Neonilla, Turbon, and Jonilla of Cappadocia, January 16
9 Inscription of name destroyed. Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 138.