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5 days ago · One of Salvador Dali's best-known works, The Temptation of St Anthony was painted in 1946 and serves as a significant example of the surrealist ideas and Christian iconography commonly associated with the flamboyant artist.
23 hours ago · He read a draft manuscript of his imaginative verse drama The Temptation of Saint Anthony aloud to his friends in September 1849; two and a half years later he was still shocked and wounded by their failure to share his enthusiasm. The self-justification in his letter of January 16, 1852, reaches a convincing-sounding climax:
23 hours ago · “The prints were both impressions of Callot's The Temptation of Saint Anthony, a wild demonic scene,” Yerkes said. “Callot made the etching early in his career, around 1616–17, and as he was working on it, he destroyed the plate by burning it with acid.”
5 days ago · June 13 is the feast of the miraculous St. Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost items, the poor, and travelers. The Catholic Church attributes many miracles to this 13-century saint, one of which proved Jesus’ Real Presence in the Eucharist to a heretic.
23 hours ago · Saint Anthony of the desert said that 2. : Against the demons, the best things to defend ourselves with are: Trust in God and a life away from sin and any kind of vice, these are the main things, but anything related with the life of an ascetic person is going to be detrimental to demons.
5 days ago · When Anthony was 20 years old his parents died, and he decided to put into practice the command of Jesus that had marked his soul. He distributed his inheritance among the poor and went into the desert where he lived as a hermit, in complete solitude, dedicated to penance and a life of prayer.
3 days ago · Located in the heart of Lisbon’s historic center, the Church of St. Anthony, or Igreja de Santo António de Lisboa in Portuguese, is not to be missed for those who want to venerate the 13th-century saint.
