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Famously, Anthony is said to have faced a series of supernatural temptations during his pilgrimage to the desert.

The first to report on the temptation was his contemporary Athanasius of Alexandria.

However, some modern scholars have argued that the demons and temptations that Anthony is reported to have faced may have been related to Athanasius by some of the simpler pilgrims who had visited him, who may have been conveying what they had been told in a manner more dramatic than it had been conveyed to them.