Anthony

ON ST. ANTHONY, MARTYR.

Anthony, Martyr (St.)

G. H.

[1] There are many Martyrs throughout this entire work called Anthony, of whom some were struck down by the sword, others drowned in the sea, others cast into fire, and others gained the palm of martyrdom by other kinds of torments. St. Anthony consumed by fire The Greeks on February 25 in the Menaea record the following few words about this Martyr: "On the same day, St. Anthony the Martyr was consumed by fire." To which martyrdom the following distich, appended below, alludes:

"Casting Anthony into the fire, the wicked ones Cook a sober dish for the Lord."

The name of the same Martyr Anthony is inscribed in the extreme margin in Maximus of Cythera in his Lives of Saints, with the rest omitted through the carelessness of the printers.

[2] Another Anthony, cast into a furnace of burning fire, is celebrated as a Martyr on August 9 among the Greeks in the same Menaea another, cast into a burning furnace, is venerated on August 9 and the Menologion published by Canisius, and he is said to be of Alexandrian birth; but no arguments are available by which we might prove that they are one and the same and are venerated by the Greeks on both days.