St. Anthony of the Desert was born in Egypt on Jan. 12, 251, into a family of wealthy farmers in the Heracleopolis Magna, which was a part of Egypt that was assimilated into the Roman Empire.

Credit: Anthony Johnson/EWTN St. Anthony was known ... as his religious name after the fourth-century desert monk St. Anthony of Egypt. At his birth in 1195, his parents gave him the name Fernando ...

Special hospitals were set up, manned by monks of St. Anthony of Egypt, famous for his spiritual strength in the face of torment from the devil. The terrible condition was then associated with the ...

Like many monks, Bishoy St. Anthony, 51, turned to the spiritual life after a secular upbringing in Egypt. Born in Alexandria, he moved to New York City in his 20s to study veterinary medicine but ...

Nearby Franciscan friars settled in a small hermitage outside Coimbra dedicated to Saint Anthony of Egypt. Fernando felt ... Soon, news of his preaching reached St. Francis of Assisi.