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Antoine le Grand, également connu comme Antoine d'Égypte, Antoine l'Ermite, ou encore Antoine du désert, est un moine considéré comme le père du monachisme chrétien. Sa vie nous est connue par le récit qu'en a fait Athanase d'Alexandrie vers 360. Il serait né vers 251 et mort vers 356 à l'âge de 105 ans, entre les bras de ses deux disciples, Macaire l'Ancien ou Macaire d'Égypte et Amathas.

Il est fêté sous le nom de saint Antoine le 17 janvier par les catholiques et les orthodoxes, et le 30 du calendrier ordinaire par les orthodoxes vieux calendaristes. Wikipedia  

✵ 251 – 17. janvier 357
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Antoine le Grand: Citations en anglais

“If we would despise the enemy, our thoughts must always be of God and our souls always glad with hope.”

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Anthony the Great

Book II, Chapter 10
From St. Athanasius' Life of St. Antony

“Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain.”

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Anthony the Great

The Living Testament: The Essential Writings of Christianity Since the Bible (1985), p. 66.
From St. Athanasius' Life of St. Antony

“I am going the way of my fathers, as the Scripture says, for I see myself called by the Lord. Be you wary and undo not your long service of God, but be earnest to keep your strong purpose, as though you were but now beginning. You know the demons who plot against you, you know how savage they are and how powerless; therefore, fear them not. Let Christ be as the breath you breathe; in Him put your trust. Live as dying daily, heeding yourselves and remembering the counsels you have heard from me. … So do you also be earnest always to be in union first with the Lord and then with the Saints, that after death, they also may receive you into everlasting tabernacles as known friends. Ponder these things, and mean them. … And now God save you, children, for Antony departs and is with you no more.”

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Anthony the Great

Book IV, Chapter 20 (his last words), St. Athanasius. Trans. Dom J.B. McLaughlin, O.S.B. St. Antony of the Desert. Rockford: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc, 1995.
From St. Athanasius' Life of St. Antony

“To one whose mind is sound, letters are needless.”

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Anthony the Great

Book IV, Chapter 17
From St. Athanasius' Life of St. Antony

“Hate the world and all that is in it. Hate all peace that comes from the flesh. Renounce this life, so that you may be alive to God.”

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Anthony the Great

Saying 33, Page 8
From Apophthegmata Patrum

“To those who have an active belief, reasoned proofs are needless and probably useless.”

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Anthony the Great

Book IV, Chapter 17
From St. Athanasius' Life of St. Antony

“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us.'”

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Anthony the Great

Saying 25, Page 6
From Apophthegmata Patrum

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