There were two St. Anthony's. The one in this painting is the first St. Anthony....

		smithkl42 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was... There were two St. Anthony's. The one in this painting is the first St. Anthony. He was celebrated by Athanasius in a widely read biography and was famous for fighting off demons in the Egyptian desert. He lived from ~251-356 AD. (But yes, a post-Biblical figure.)