Saint Antony of the Desert by St Athanasius Basketball and to his great missionary

and to his great missionary work in California

The framed Italian lithograph has a velvet easel back to stand or hang

detached from earthly comforts

In this fourth installment of Theology of Home

and in this book Pope Benedict XVI helps us to enter into that world

Saint Antony of the Desert by St Athanasius Basketball and to his great missionaryNo one can claim to be seeking the monastic ideal who does not seek to imitate St. Antony of the Desert, justly called "the Great." Holy Abba Antony was the second of the Desert Fathers, learning from the primordial hermit himself, St. Paul the First Hermit. Illustrious in holiness, glorious in asceticism, magnificent in miracles, resolute against temptation, St. Antony remains unsurpassed by any monk as the greatest of Abbots, the original "Anthony"