January 17: saint of the day, name day


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The Saint of the day January 17 is Saint Anthony the Abbot, which name day is celebrated and other saints are celebrated on this date.


Sant'Antonio Abate

Born in Qumans in Egypt in about 251 and died in the Tabaide desert on January 17, 357, Saint Anthony the Abbot lived as a hermit and is considered the founder of Christian monasticism as well as the first abbot in history.

The news on the life of this saint was handed down mainly thanks to the work of Athanasius entitled "Vita Antonii", which was published in 357, a text considered reliable because the author had known Antonio personally.


Having remained an orphan at a very young age, with the responsibility of a patrimony to administer and a younger sister to deal with, he felt strongly in him the desire to obey the evangelical exhortation "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give it to the poor ".

So it was that he got rid of all his wealth by donating it to the needy and, after entrusting his sister to a female community, he started a life as a hermit, living in prayer, in total poverty and chastity.

His first penitence refuge was a cell, then he retired to the shores of the Red Sea, in a hospitable desert.


This earned him the nickname "Deicolo", which means "in love with God".

And from his love was born one of the major religious movements among those formed in the early Christian centuries, of which he was the Abbot, or the father of the Hermits who after the middle of the third century, in increasing numbers, abandoned worldly life to withdraw in the desert.

Saint Anthony the Abbot remained in the desert for over eighty years, dying of old age in 356.


In the desert Antonio, tempted innumerable times by the devil, who appeared to him in all forms, angelic, human, and bestial, always managed to resist, without ever giving in, for this reason he is also commonly known as the Saint of Temptations.

Other saints and celebrations of 17 January

  • Blessed Gamelberto
  • San Giuliano Saba
  • Hermit

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