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| St. Anthony the New (Feast Day - December 1) |
Verses
Looking toward Anthony the Great,
He was viewed as being like him also in his ways of asceticism.
By St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite
Regarding this Saint Anthony the New, the following is written in the Evergetinos, p. 199. That is, he once was the owner of splendid property, then became a Monk. Having lived in quietude for many years, he struggled supernaturally. Once, upon reading the discourse on obedience of Saint John Climacus, he came upon these final words: "He who has come to know his illness by living in solitude, and has then changed his place and sold himself to obedience, has without trouble recovered his sight and seen Christ." Wherefore he departed quietude, and gave himself over to a Coenobium, which was in Kion, in the province of Bithynia.
