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251 – 356 ), also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes, Abba Antonius ( Ἀββᾶς Ἀντώνιος ), and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers.

Most of what is known about Saint Anthony comes from the Life of Anthony.

Saint Anthony decided to follow this tradition and headed out into the alkaline Nitrian Desert region ( which became the location of the noted monasteries of Nitria, Kellia and Scetis ), about west of Alexandria, on the edge of the Western Desert.

According to Athanasius, the devil again resumed his war against Saint Anthony, only this time the phantoms were in the form of wild beasts, wolves, lions, snakes and scorpions.

Saint Anthony would prepare a quantity of bread that would sustain him for six months.

On this spot now stands the monastery of Saint Anthony the Great.

The backstory of one of the surviving epistles, directed to Constantine I, recounts how the fame of Saint Anthony spread abroad and reached Emperor Constantine.

Painting of Saint Anthony, a part of The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot by Piero di Cosimo, ca.

According to Athanasius, Saint Anthony heard a voice telling him, " Go out and see.

Saint Anthony prophesied about the persecution that was about to happen to the church and the control of the heretics over it, the church victory and its return to its former glory, and the end of the age.

When Saint Macarius visited Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony clothed him with the monk's garb, and foretold him what would be of him.

Until high school, of which he attended Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky his featured characters were a large cast of stick figures featured in comedy-adventures like the Barks comics and old movies Don enjoyed most.

At the age of nine, calling himself un petit Huguenot, he refused to attend Mass, sang Protestant psalms to his sister Margaret ( exhorting her all the while to change her religion and cast her Book of Hours into the fire ), and even bit the nose off a statue of Saint Paul.

This Pedro Berruguete work of the 15th century depicts a story of Saint Dominic and the Albigensians, in which the texts of each were cast into a fire, but only Saint Dominic's proved miraculously resistant to the flames.

Shaw cast her in several of his plays, including Saint Joan, Pygmalion and Major Barbara and his influence on her early career is clearly apparent.

The all-star cast includes Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Theodore Bikel, Jonathan Winters, and in his first film, Alan Arkin.

Saint Birgitta ( 1303 – 1373 ), also known as Birgitta of Vadstena, has cast her shadow on this municipality, and is shown on the municipality's coat-of-arms.

Worldwide fame arrived after Lew Grade cast Moore as Simon Templar in a new adaptation of The Saint, based on the novels by Leslie Charteris.

Delgado was frequently cast as a villain, appearing in many noted British action-adventure TV series by ITC, including The Champions ( 1969 ), Danger Man ( 1961 ), The Saint ( 1962, 1966 ), and Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ) ( 1969 ).

Many design elements of the basilica symbolise nationalist themes: the portico, with its three arches, is adorned by two equestrian statues of French national saints Joan of Arc ( 1927 ) and King Saint Louis IX, both executed in bronze by Hippolyte Lefebvre ; and the nineteen-ton Savoyarde bell ( one of the world's heaviest ), cast in 1895 in Annecy, alludes to the annexation of Savoy in 1860.

The more sensational and controversial the subject, the higher its potential market value, but in addition, the content would act to cast suspicion on the Latter Day Saint origins.

A neighbor named Alaphrion was miraculously healed by Saint Hilarion who cast out a demon from Alaphrion, and, as eyewitnesses to the miracle, his family converted, along with Alaphrion's.

But still protected the merciful, man-loving God us and sheltered us from the foreign people, and the word came to Novgorod that Swedes were sailing to Ladoga ; but prince Alexander did not hesitate at all, but went against them with Novgorodians and people of Ladoga and overcame them with the help of Saint Sophia and through prayers of our lady, the Mother of God and Virgin Mary, July 15, in the memory of Kirik and Ulita, on Sunday, ( the same day that ) the 630 holy fathers held a meeting in Chalcedon ; and there was a great gathering of the Swedes ; and their leader called Spiridon was killed there ; but some claimed that even the bishop was slain ; and a great number of them fell ; and when they had loaded two ships with the bodies of high-born men, they let them sail to the sea ; but the others, that were unnumbered, they cast to a pit, that they buried, and many others were wounded ; and that same night they fled, without waiting for the Monday light, with shame.

He set sail from Corfu on 19 September and although he planned to proceed directly to Saint Petersburg, stormy weather forced him to take refuge in the Tagus River and cast anchor in Lisbon on 30 October.

The extremely influential Life of Saint Martin by Sulpicius Severus seems to have set in motion a hagiographic tradition in which saints cast out demons or repel tempting devils by blowing at them .< ref >< cite > Vita Sancti Martini ,</ cite > ed.

Others in the cast were Percy Rodriguez, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara, Barbara Ann Teer, James Shigeta and Britt Ekland.

He became a part of popular music history when he was cast as Saint Martin de Porres in Madonna's controversial 1989 music video " Like a Prayer ".

Having acted in numerous staged plays and musicals, his first professional acting role did not come until after college when he was cast opposite Danny Glover and Matt Dillon in the film, " The Saint of Ft.

Initially, Hitchcock wanted to cast Eva Marie Saint, the blonde star of North by Northwest, but the studio forced him to cast Julie Andrews.

Produced by Saint Subber and directed by Mike Nichols, the cast featured Peter Falk and Lee Grant starring as Mel and Edna Edison, and Vincent Gardenia as Mel's brother Harry.

Upon entering the cathedral through the centre door at the main entrance, one will see the statues of Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Francis Xavier, the four cast iron Composite columns supporting the gallery, and the two cast iron spiral staircases leading to the gallery.

Saint Anthony continued walking along and saw a pile of gold in his way which the devil had laid there to deceive him.

Image: Pile of Kankana-ey Hymnal. jpg | A pile of Kankanaey Hymnal in the Church of Saint Mary, an Episcopal Church in Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines.

In 1889, during construction of a house in Saint Helier, a 746g gold torc of Irish origin was unearthed.

* Brian Boru makes a second expedition to the north to take hostages from the northern states: during this expeidion, he visited Armagh, making an offering of twenty ounces of gold to the church and confirming to the apostolic see of Saint Patrick, ecclesiastical supremacy over the whole of Ireland ( as recorded in the Book of Armagh ).

Saint John of Damascus ( Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός Iōannēs ho Damaskēnos ; Latin: Iohannes Damascenus ; also known as John Damascene, Χρυσορρόας / Chrysorrhoas, " streaming with gold "— i. e., " the golden speaker ") ( c. 645 or 676 – 4 December 749 ; Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي Yuḥannā Al Demashqi ) was a Syrian monk and priest.

Lack of a legitimate heir, however, remained a concern for Władysław I and in 1085 he and his wife Judith of Bohemia sent rich gifts, among which was a life size statue of a child made of gold, to the Benedictine Sanctuary of Saint Giles in Saint-Gilles, Provance begging for offspring.

A hospice was built at Mount Saint Bernard ( Elevation 1540 ) around 1863 along a track developed to link the Victorian gold fields.

In the 9th century Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick the deity is called Cenn Cruach, and his cult image consists of a central figure covered with gold and silver, surrounded by twelve bronze figures.

In the East it was found on the gold helmet of a Scythian king ( illustration ) uncovered at the Ak-Burun kurgan and conserved in Saint Petersburg's Hermitage Museum.

Saint Jnaneshwar ( 1275 – 1296 ), wrote a commentary with 17 references to the philosopher's stone that explicitly transmutes base metal into gold.

The flag consists of two vertical bands, one of gold or yellow ( hoist side ) and one of white with the crossed keys of Saint Peter and the Papal Tiara centered in the white band.

The Dutch municipality of Sint-Oedenrode, named after the Scottish princess Saint Oda, also uses the Saltire as the basis of its flag, although in this case the Saltire is defaced with a gold castle, having on both sides a battlement.

Nathaniel Pitt Langford ( 1832 – 1911 ) was an explorer, businessman, bureaucrat, vigilante and historian from Saint Paul, Minnesota who played an important role in the early years of the Montana gold fields, territorial government and the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

At the Chapel of Saint Bernadette at the mother house of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, it is possible to view the incorrupt remains of Bernadette Soubirous ( Saint Bernadette ) which are presented in a gold and crystal reliquary.

The Amber Room ( sometimes known as the Amber Chamber ; Yantarnaya komnata ; ) in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg is a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors.

The Flag of Saint David shares a black background with Saint Piran's Flag, but is surmounted by a gold, rather than a white, cross.

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates ( also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden Bible ) are the source from which Joseph Smith, Jr. said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.

In 1917, St. Thomas was purchased ( along with Saint John and Saint Croix ) by the United States for $ 25 million in gold, as part of a defensive strategy to maintain control over the Caribbean and the Panama Canal during the First World War.

The flag of the modern Canadian province, a blue saltire on a white field, is a simple figure-ground reversal of the flag of Scotland ( a white saltire, Saint Andrew's cross, on a blue field ), charged with an inescutcheon bearing the royal arms of Scotland, a gold shield with a red lion rampant surrounded by a royal double tressure ( a double border decorated with fleurs de lis ).

Zhejiang University took first place with the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Tsinghua University, and Saint Petersburg State University taking 2nd, 3rd, and 4th respectively each receiving gold medals.

File: Brooklyn Museum-Saint Lawrence Buried in Saint Stephen's Tomb-Lorenzo di Niccolò. jpg | Lorenzo di Niccolò, Saint Lawrence Buried in Saint Stephen's Tomb, 1410 – 1414, tempera and tooled gold on poplar, 33 × 36 cm