Saint Anthony the Great Icon Pendant
(Coptic Tradition)
A Life of Desert Vigilance and Monastic Triumph
In the silent expanse where scorching sun meets shifting sands, Saint Anthony—“the Father of Monks”—stood alone against the storms of temptation, his only company the voice of Christ and the chorus of angels. This pendant, bearing his resolute gaze and the scroll of his desert wisdom, beckons you into Anthony’s journey: from the world’s tumult to the stillness where true freedom is found. Born in 251 AD in the Nile Delta, Anthony inherited his parents’ modest estate. Yet hearing the Gospel injunction to “sell all that you have,” he abandoned earthly comforts for a life of radical poverty. In the caves of the Eastern Desert, he fasted and prayed, wrestling with the demons that assailed both body and soul. From these crucibles of solitude emerged his clarion call: that every Christian can become a “soldier of the Cross” by conquering the inner foes of desire and despair. Across the streams of Christendom—Coptic, Byzantine, Syriac, Latin—Anthony’s legacy shaped the contours of the spiritual life. Coptic fathers preserved his sayings in the Apophthegmata, while Athonite monks trace their hesychastic lineage to his desert vigils. In the West, Benedict of Nursia invoked his example when founding Western monasticism, and medieval mystics found in Anthony’s battles the mirror of their own spiritual struggles. Every tradition honors him as exemplar of ascetic courage and unceasing prayer. Fashioned with the echoing of Saint Anthony’s simple habit and the scroll of his enduring wisdom, this pendant becomes your personal devotion of vigilance to embrace stillness, wage the inner battle, and model radical generosity and self-change.
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Sizing Chart (Without Bail)
Small: 21mm X 16mm X 2mm*
Large: 27mm X 21mm X 2mm*
(*Depth varies with Icon detail but is always at least 2 mm.)
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