!!!Antonius der Große, Heiliger

b. 251/252 Koma (Egypt), d. 356, religious hermit, considered the 
founder and father of organized Christian monasticism. His veneration 
cultus reached Europe via Constantinople. In Austria A. was the saint 
of farm animals and of protection against disease; depicted with a 
T-shaped crucifix, a book, a pig or a bell.

!Literature
O. Wimmer and H. Melzer, Lexikon der Namen und Heiligen, 
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