Antony
Solomon Gebreyes
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Names
እንጦንስ፡ ʾƎnṭonǝs Antony Anthony (the Great) እንጦንዮስ፡ ʾƎnṭonyos Ἀντώνιος እንጦኒ፡ ʾƎnṭoni ʾabbā role: title
Birth
0251
Period of Activity
"Father of all monks", he is considered to have been the founder of monasticism, born from Christian parents in Qimān al-ʿArūs↗ . At the age of 20, he started to practice ascetic life. He was an ardent supporter of Athanasius in his fight against Arianism. He is highly respected in the monasticism tradition of Ethiopia↗ . The monastic houses of both Takla Hāymanot and ʾEwosṭātewos trace themselves back to Anthony.
Death
0356
Author of
- Ṣalota qǝddus ʾabbā ʾƎnṭonǝs attributed.
- Tǝʾǝzāz za-ʾabuna qǝddus ʾabbā ʾƎnṭonǝs la-daqiqu.
- Ṣalota qǝddus ʾabbā ʾƎnṭonǝs.
Commemoration
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Names
- birth: እንጦንስ፡ gez
- Anthony (the Great) en
- birth: እንጦንዮስ፡ gez
- birth: እንጦኒ፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Birth: 251
Death: 356
Residence
Faith
Coptic
Nationality
Egypt
Subject of
- Malkǝʾ-hymn to Antony.
- Hagiographic Dossier of St Antony.
- Vita of St Antony.
- Malkǝʾ-hymn to St Anthony.
- Tǝʾǝzāz za-ʾabuna qǝddus ʾabbā ʾƎnṭonǝs la-daqiqu.
- Malkǝʾ-hymn to St Anthony.
- Salām-hymn to Antony.
- Vita of St Antony.
- A Hymn to St Antony (unidentified).
- Salām hymn to St Antony.
- malʾǝkt to Anthony.
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Kaplan, S. and O. F. A. Meinardus 2003. ‘Anthony’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 282b–283a.
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Zarzeczny, R. 2013. ‘Some Remarks Concerning the Ethiopic Recension of the “Life of Antony”’, Orientalia Christiana Periodica, 79/1 (2013), 37–60.
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Witakowski, W. 2015. ‘Antony “the First Monk” in Ethiopian Tradition’, in D. Nosnitsin, ed., Veneration of Saints in Christian Ethiopia: Proceedings of the International Workshop Saints in Christian Ethiopia: Literary Sources and Veneration, Hamburg, April 28–29, 2012, Supplement to Aethiopica, 3 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015), 200–220.
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Leloir, L. 1984. ‘Premiers renseignements sur la Vie d’Antoine en éthiopien’, in ANTIDORON: Hulde aan Maurits Geerard bij de voltooing van de Clavis Patrum Graecorum. ANTIDORON: Hommage à Maurits Geerard pour célébrer l’achèvement de la Clavis Patrum Graecorum (Wetteren: Cultura, 1984), 9–12.
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Guillamont, A. 1991. ‘Anthony of Egypt’, in A. S. Atiya, ed., The Coptic Encyclopedia, I (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991), 149a–151b.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻAntonyʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2019-06-26) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS1962Anthony [Accessed: 2024-05-17]
Revisions of the data
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: corrected name added WD on 26.6.2019
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: removed occupation containing St, Saint, bibl, biblical or prophet, added keyword. See https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Documentation/issues/1104 on 27.3.2019
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 18.11.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor